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06 August 2020
Issue: 7898 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Property
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NLJ this week: Leasehold reform

The Law Commission’s reforms will give leaseholders a better deal, Law Commissioner Professor Nick Hopkins and Law Commission lawyer Rebecca Sage write in this week’s NLJ

In the second part of a two-part series on the Commission’s recent reports on leasehold and commonhold reform, Hopkins and Sage provide more detail on their recommendations for reform.

Read more here.

Issue: 7898 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Property
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
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