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15 April 2022
Issue: 7975 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Technology
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NLJ this week | Master of the Rolls hails value of legal journals in a digital age

Digital justice enthusiast Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, marks the bicentenary of NLJ this week by calling for the legal system to be ‘more agile’

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Sir Geoffrey highlights the increasing relevance of blockchain in everyday transactions, predicting that ‘within less than a generation’, it will come to ‘record immutable every aspect of daily lives’. He predicts ‘the completion of an holistic digital justice system within five years’.

While all this takes place, ‘thoughtful and topical legal writing’ such as NLJ strives to provide, will be required. Sir Geoffrey writes: ‘Blogs, vlogs and social media provide   immediacy, but journals move the debate forward at a higher level.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde Co strengthens energy transition and construction offering with hire of Suriya Ashok

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit appoints rare dual-qualified lawyer to expand Anglo-French private wealth expertise

NEWS
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
Arbitration may be private, but its confidentiality is no impenetrable shield. Writing in NLJ this week, James Glaysher of Kingsley Napley examines when courts will permit arbitral material to surface in open litigation
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

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