THIS ISSUE
Profession remains resilient in the face of COVID-19
Chief Master Marsh retired as Chief Master of the High Court, Chancery Division on 1 May after a distinguished career.
Lawyers with judicial aspirations should keep an eye out for the 2021/22 High Court Judicial Assistant Scheme.
Numerical nightmares & conjured-up counterclaims: Dominic Regan counts the costs of some headline headaches
Have expenses under a freezing injunction become a further means to dissipate? Natalie Todd & Richard Swan investigate
Part 36 settlement offers: Helen Armstrong & William Rowell outline how to avoid the pitfalls
Michael Zander concludes his account of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Alexandra Felix QC & Ruth Broadbent examine the complexities of modern slavery within the UK’s criminal justice system
Amid the proliferation of COVID-related powers around the country, what of the long-standing common law right to silence? Nicholas Dobson reports
In this month’s brief, Ian Smith serves up some insight into items which are always on the employment law menu
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Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes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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