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
Pillsbury—Steven James
Firm boosts London IP capability with high-profile technology sector hire
Clarke Willmott—Michelle Seddon
Private client specialist joins as partner in Taunton office
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DWF—Rory White-Andrews
Finance and restructuring offering strengthened by partner hire in London
NEWS
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB) continues to stir controversy across civil litigation, according to NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School—AKA ‘The insider’
SRA v Goodwin is a rare disciplinary decision where a solicitor found to have acted dishonestly avoided being struck off, says Clare Hughes-Williams of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) imposed a 12-month suspension instead, citing medical evidence and the absence of harm to clients
In their latest Family Law Brief for NLJ, Ellie Hampson-Jones and Carla Ditz of Stewarts review three key family law rulings, including the latest instalment in the long-running saga of Potanin v Potanina
The Asian International Arbitration Centre’s sweeping reforms through its AIAC Suite of Rules 2026, unveiled at Asia ADR Week, are under examination in this week's NLJ by John (Ching Jack) Choi of Gresham Legal
In this week's issue of NLJ, Yasseen Gailani and Alexander Martin of Quinn Emanuel report on the High Court’s decision in Skatteforvaltningen (SKAT) v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors [2025], where Denmark’s tax authority failed to recover £1.4bn in disputed dividend tax refunds
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