THIS ISSUE
Delays to cases at the beleaguered Serious Fraud Office (SFO) often occur due to staffing and resourcing issues, inspectors have found.
Legal advice privilege continues until and unless it is waived by the client or removed by statute, the Court of Appeal has held in a landmark case.
The Human Rights Act, which enacts the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, may come under attack again in the current ‘isolationist’ climate, Geoffrey Bindman QC has warned.
Solicitors have until the end of this week to comply with financial sanctions rules on frozen assets.
The EU Settlement Scheme, the process by which EU citizens and family members apply to stay in the UK after Brexit, has received two million applications, the Home Office has confirmed.
Nearly one in six of nearly 189,000 solicitors on the Roll comes from a BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) background, Law Society figures show.
A bicycle courier and two cleaners, all on low pay, and the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) filed proceedings for a judicial review in the High Court last week to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to abide by the Benn Act and ask for an Art 50 extension.
Claims in the employment tribunals have increased, but is justice being delivered? Shantha David reports
He is charged with carrying a knife: Alec Samuels examines the related possibilities & outcomes
Michael L Nash examines the delicate balancing act between the three pillars of power in times of crisis
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
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
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
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