THIS ISSUE
More than half a loaf: Tesco, Sarclad & the case for individual DPAs by Eoin O’Shea & Emma Shafton
Nicholas Dobson reflects on how & why the recent private prosecution against Boris Johnson failed
Anthony Owen has some words of advice for long leaseholders applying for relief from forfeiture: time is of the essence
Dishonest exaggeration in clinical negligence claims: Mark Ashley, Stuart Wallace, Ruth Crackett take a closer look
Veronica Cowan explains why it’s time for conveyancing firms to embrace digitalisation & adopt modern work practices
Group litigation orders offer a pragmatic solution to the Australian ‘beauty parade’ trend in shareholder class actions, explain Gavin Foggo & Andrew Hill
GDPR, immigration & enforcement among issues facing profession post-Brexit
Ministers and senior officials from more than 50 countries will gather in Singapore next week to support a new international treaty on mediation.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Mourant—Stephen Alexander
Jersey litigation lead appointed to global STEP Council
mfg Solicitors—nine trainees
Firm invests in future talent with new training cohort
360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan
Investment banking veteran appointed as chairman to drive global growth
NEWS
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
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