THIS ISSUE
‘The law reports are bursting with examples of people involved in litigation talking total tosh,’ says NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan, of City Law School
Does judicial review strike the right balance between citizen and government, as the Independent Review of Administrative Law seeks to discover?
Twenty Essex barristers explore recent developments in the law on service―the means by which legal proceedings are commenced―and conclude that it’s time for a ‘wholescale review’, in this week’s NLJ
Dominic Regan tells tales of ‘questionable’ representations & asks if enough is being done to drive out the fibbers from the law
Ariana Caines delves into the world of blockchain & money laundering
A fine balance? David Burrows reflects on balancing public interest, the administration of justice & confidentiality
The Supreme Court is looking for another Justice, to fill the shoes of Lady Black of Derwent who is retiring on 10 January
Paul Lowenstein QC & Andrew Dinsmore outline recent developments in the law on service
Paul Scott & Jordan Bosi consider the ramifications of the new insolvency legislation on the construction industry
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
Michael Zander KC, emeritus professor at LSE, revisits his long-forgotten Crown Court Study (1993), which surveyed 22,000 participants across 3,000 cases, in the first of a two-part series for NLJ
Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) was a landmark test of how UK law applies to AI training—but does it leave key questions unanswered, asks Emma Kennaugh-Gallagher of Mewburn Ellis in NLJ this week
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