THIS ISSUE
With civil and family courts sitting at the Hilton and Holiday Inn hotels, former District Judge Stephen Gold consults the Tripadvisor Court Accommodation Reports and finds some unfavourable reviews, in this week’s Civil Way
Nick Hall, barrister at Red Lion Chambers, considers the relevance of inquest proceedings in fitness to practise proceedings in professional discipline law, in this week’s NLJ
The options for injunctive relief against unlawful stop and search are narrow, Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, writes in this week’s NLJ
In the third instalment of his series on access to justice and digital technologies, Roger Smith asks whether the Lord Chancellor is tilting his hat at high-fee international commercial work at the expense of smaller domestic claims
To what extent does the right to be forgotten apply to blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin and other ledger-based systems? Not only is it technically impossible but, following the end of the post-Brexit transition period, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) no longer strictly applies (although the GDPR’s provisions have been incorporated into domestic law).
These are difficult times for free legal advice charities, but lawyers have been putting their best foot forward to garner additional funds
Remote hearings have an unseen psychological impact on court users, a report has found
Some 61 offenders had their sentences increased last year under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme, the Attorney General’s Office has confirmed
Nicholas Hall considers the relevance of inquest proceedings in fitness to practise proceedings in professional discipline law
Mastercard has lost its bid to stop a gigantic £15bn class action going ahead, in a landmark decision on opt-out claims
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC
Appointment of former Solicitor General bolsters corporate investigations and white collar practice
Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark
Firm strengthens international strategy with hire of global relations consultant
Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf
Partner and associate join employment practice
NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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