THIS ISSUE
Michael Zander pins down the issues of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
What happens when neighbours claim your tenants run a brothel? Amy Proferes looks at a recent case
The UK Internal Market Bill: ‘Minor clarifications’ and the Rule of Law. Khawar Qureshi QC tracks events in Parliament so far this month
Lawyers have thrown themselves into the London Legal Walk 10xChallenge―the replacement for the annual London Legal Walk
The Family Law Awards 2020 have received an overwhelming number of entries―despite the ongoing COVID-19 crisis
The High Court has clarified key issues regarding insurance cover for business interruption caused by COVID-19, in a landmark decision
The Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) ‘naïve’ approach to outsourcing has come under fire, in a scathing report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
The Singapore Convention on mediation came into force on 12 September, in a major development in international commercial dispute resolution
A cohort of ten barristers signed up to support the Bar Council’s #IAmTheBar campaign as social mobility advocates this week
The controversial Internal Market Bill survived its second reading this week, despite unprecedented condemnation from senior lawyers, including former Conservative attorneys general Geoffrey Cox, Jeremy Wright and Dominic Grieve
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu
Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department
Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus
Firm announces appointment of next chair
Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker
Director joins corporate team from the US
NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection?
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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