THIS ISSUE
Accelerated package of measures could end impasse
Internet companies should bear more responsibility in stopping online sexual offences, law reform and human rights group JUSTICE has said
The prison population would need to reduce by 20,000 inmates for current funding to match running costs, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has told MPs
Plans to establish an online court give ministers too much power, raising constitutional concerns, a parliamentary committee has warned
The Supreme Court has given an important ruling on the ‘serious harm’ test for libel.
The Law Society has welcomed the signing of a continuity free trade agreement with Korea that will allow English and Welsh solicitors to continue to practise there after Brexit
Barristers volunteering through Advocate (the new name for the Bar Pro Bono Unit) in 2018 gave more than 10,000 hours of legal help, amounting to nearly £2.25m in fees if they had charged
Solicitors will pay £30 less and firms will pay £530 less towards the Compensation Fund next year
QC, judge and president of the ‘spies tribunal’, Sir Michael Burton has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Security for costs: Rakesh Kapila reports on the forensic accountant's role
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage
Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire
Druces—Lisa Cardy
Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering
Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith
Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team
NEWS
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
In NLJ this week, Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre marks Pro Bono Week by urging lawyers to recognise the emotional toll of pro bono work
Can a lease legally last only days—or even hours? Professor Mark Pawlowski of the University of Greenwich explores the question in this week's NLJ
RFC Seraing v FIFA, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) reaffirmed that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may be reviewed by EU courts on public-policy grounds, is under examination in this week's NLJ by Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law, Zurich
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