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05 November 2025
Issue: 8138 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Rule of law
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LexisNexis Legal Awards 2026—enter now!

Entries are now open for the 2026 LexisNexis Legal Awards, celebrating achievement and innovation in the law across 24 categories

And don’t wait too long to enter or nominate—entries, including supporting evidence and up to 750 words, must be in by 5 December 2025.

It’s a great way to mark the year’s cases, campaigns and hard work. This year’s categories include the prestigious Halsbury Award for Rule of Law, which honours an individual or organisation’s contribution to the rule of law, and the lifetime contribution award.

There are awards for business development, chambers, law firm, costs law team, case of the year, trainee scheme, customer focus, in-house team, pro bono and more.

NLJ readers can join in with the judging by voting for the legal personality of the year, choosing from a shortlist to be circulated at a later stage.

The winners will be announced on 16 April at a ceremony at the Park Plaza London Riverbank. Find out more, and submit entries, here.

Issue: 8138 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Rule of law
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
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