THIS ISSUE
Firm appoints marine law specialist
Alec Samuels addresses the quandary of dealing with illness or worse in No 10
Hiding wealth through trusts is a shocking business, writes Philip Sinel
Jonny Frank & Annabel Kerley offer practical guidance for companies under investigation
Michael Zander reports on a new (definitely unwanted) problem for the government
The time has come to consider the plight of the increasing numbers of people who are outside the pale of UK marriage laws, says David Burrows
The pandemic has exposed the acute lack of investment in public services, including our justice system, says Jon Robins
Unprecedented court case backlogs and record prisoner numbers could be on the way as a result of government reforms and COVID-19, according to an Institute for Government (IfG) and Chartered Institute for Public Finance & Accountancy paper published this week, ‘The criminal justice system’.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson
Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor
Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips
International private client team appoints expert in Spanish law
NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning
Stefan Borson, football finance expert head of sport at McCarthy Denning, discusses returning to the law digging into the stories behind the scenes
NEWS
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
In this week's NLJ, Robert Hargreaves and Lily Johnston of York St John University examine the Employment Rights Bill 2024–25, which abolishes the two-year qualifying period for unfair-dismissal claims
Writing in NLJ this week, Manvir Kaur Grewal of Corker Binning analyses the collapse of R v Óg Ó hAnnaidh, where a terrorism charge failed because prosecutors lacked statutory consent. The case, she argues, highlights how procedural safeguards—time limits, consent requirements and institutional checks—define lawful state power
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
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