THIS ISSUE
Changes to silk application may discriminate against women, Bar warns
It’s time again for Dominic Regan to provide a rundown of the best bottles to tempt your palate this summer
It’s going to be a lot easier for barristers and solicitors to get into court in future, with a queue-skipping initiative planned and a smartphone identity system under development to tackle ‘airport-style security’ searches.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Kingsley Napley—Tristan Cox-Chung
Firm bolsters restructuring and insolvency team with partner hire
Foot Anstey—Stephen Arnold
Firm appoints first chief client officer
Mewburn Ellis—Aled Richards-Jones
IP firm welcomes experienced patent litigator as partner
NEWS
Solicitors are installing panic buttons and thumb print scanners due to ‘systemic and rising’ intimidation including death and arson threats from clients
Ministers’ decision to scrap plans for their Labour manifesto pledge of day one protection from unfair dismissal was entirely predictable, employment lawyers have said
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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