Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7678

Are litigators heading for extinction with the rise of technology assisted review, asks Caroline Field

Could technology provide legal empowerment as the government withdraws funding, asks Roger Smith

Should individuals be given more protection, asks Fan Yang

Geoffrey Bindman QC reminisces on the days of the small family firm

Alistair MacDonald QC reviews the highlights of life at the Bar in 2015

IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [2015] EWCA Civ 1144, [2015] All ER (D) 103 (Nov)

R (on the application of Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (on the application of Bibi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Liberty Intervening) [2015] UKSC 68, [2015] All ER (D) 150 (Nov)

NA v Nottinghamshire County Council [2015] EWCA Civ 1139, [2015] All ER (D) 126 (Nov)

Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks and another v Intellectual Property Agency Ltd and another [2015] EWHC 3256 (IPEC), [2015] All ER (D) 114 (Nov)