THIS ISSUE
UK financial markets need the common law back, says Richard Samuel
Two legal academics have raised questions about the Supreme Court’s decision that prorogation of Parliament was both justiciable and unlawful.
Couples are postponing their divorce due to uncertainties caused by Brexit, family lawyers say.
The thought of no-deal Brexit may be spooking the housing market, but it hasn’t shaken the confidence of the conveyancing profession.
Poor, inflexible billing practices are losing law firms business, in-house lawyers say.
The Scottish government has set the personal injury discount rate, the rate used to determine lump sum compensation for pursuers who suffer a serious injury.
The legal year launched this week with the Lord Chancellor’s Breakfast and a speech by justice secretary Robert Buckland QC.
The Sentencing Council has issued two guidelines that come into force this week (as of 1 October) in all courts across England and Wales.
The rape pornography law, introduced in 2015, has had little impact, with very few charges or prosecutions, according to a study by Durham University.
Law is the sector where ‘taking holidays’ is most taboo, with 39% of those surveyed believing this to be the case, according to research among 1,342 employees across different industries by employee services company Perkbox.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva
Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice
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London labour and employment team announces partner hire
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Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion
NEWS
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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