THIS ISSUE
Rakesh Kapila explains how forensic accountants can help when disputes arise from the administration of estates
Sarah Rushton & Sophie Georgiou address the thorny issue of vaccine mandates in the workplace
Andrew Wilkinson considers the implications of Hirachand v Hirachand for lawyers & probate practitioners
Feeling starstruck? Dominic Regan sizes up the Master of the Rolls & takes shelter from recent grenades tossed into the world of costs management
Peter Mansfield reveals the shocking truth about a popular Christmas film
Neil Parpworth interprets the latest Home Office figures on stop and search
Kim Beatson & Victoria Brown return to discuss what happens after a fact finding hearing, Scott Schedules and recent case law
The number of solicitors working in-house has risen ‘significantly’ in the past decade, amid a UK-wide boost in legal services output
Professor Dominic Regan explains why he is ‘smitten’ by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, in this week’s NLJ
MOVERS & SHAKERS
FOIL—Bridget Tatham
Forum of Insurance Lawyers elects president for 2026
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Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair
Partner joinslabour and employment practice in London
Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson
Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor
NEWS
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
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
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