THIS ISSUE
Are your set’s employees ‘fully engaged’ or are they simply ‘coming to work’? Catherine Calder of Serjeants’ Inn lays down some ground rules for running a successful & happy chambers
The legal services market is highly competitive and the proliferation of new technology is overhauling how law firms deliver value and how clients buy legal services
Who can interrogate the data preserved following the execution of a search & seizure order? Paul Johnson & Philip Gardner report
Charles Pigott reflects on Curless & the complexities of addressing discrimination claims in the context of a wider redundancy programme
Victor Smith considers when inference, from inferred knowledge to intent, can result in conviction
Michael Zander records what the Lords Constitution Committee had to say about the Bill
Significant changes are in the pipeline & lawyers need to be aware of what is planned. Dominic Regan puts down some markers
Katherine Deal QC & Asela Wijeyaratne consider the meaning of ‘accident’ under the Montreal Convention
In a short series in the run-up to the December election, Jon Robins does some policy filtering & number crunching
The total number of individuals formally dealt with by the criminal justice system is at the lowest since records began, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures have revealed
MOVERS & SHAKERS
WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea
Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires
Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew
Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires
Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth
Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions
NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
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