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With one claimant left waiting nearly a year for permission to appeal, Dominic Regan offers some advice to the judiciary for cutting down on delays: try shorter judgments?

Solicitors are prime targets for those who want to wash their ‘dirty’ money, says Paul Philip

Michael Zander suggests that argument over tweaking of the statutory tests is a waste of everyone’s time

Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC raises questions about tainted money & professional ethics

With law & order on its knees after decades of neglect, either the whole system must be made to work, or none of it will: John Gould reports

Those in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland need more robust reassurance of their devolved powers if the union is to endure, argues Roger Smith

The battle for environmental justice: David Greene reports on efforts to hold governments & corporations to account for the climate crisis

Won’t anyone think about the constitution, asks Roger Smith

The justice system cruelly stacks the odds against the neurodivergent, says Jon Robins

Judiciary on the warpath? Dominic Regan provides an update on client contributions & a costs management bombshell on the horizon

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Osbornes Law—Melissa Arnold

London firm expands family team with experienced partner hire

Fladgate— Tatiana Menshenina & Timi Balogun

Firm strengthens international disputes offering with dual partner hire

SA Law—Kiran Beeharry

Joint head of family law appointed

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Court delays weigh heavily on children

Chronic delays, duplication of work, cancelled hearings and inefficiencies in the family law courts are letting children and victims of domestic abuse down, a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry has found

NLJ this week: Redrawing boundaries for fiduciary duties and motor finance claims

Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery

NLJ this week: BBC’s open justice bid fails in care proceedings

The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week

NLJ this week: Parliamentary privilege—shield or sword?

Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege

NLJ this week: Litigation funding must serve justice, not failure

Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses

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Opinion

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Melissa Arnold

Fladgate— Tatiana Menshenina & Timi Balogun

SA Law—Kiran Beeharry