THIS ISSUE
Helen Pamely considers the effects of imposter syndrome in the legal world
Michael L Nash explores the secretive history surrounding the sealing of royal wills
Fiona Lyon sets out the process for adopting both within the UK & overseas
Stewart Hey & Simon Heatley return to consider some potential drafting traps for the unwary
It is time for the UK government to stop looking inward & restore its place as a global human rights champion, says Geoffrey Bindman
Nicholas Dobson analyses a key Supreme Court decision on capacity to consent to sexual relations
Possessions and Covid; More inquest legal aid; New contempt forms; Possession defence test; Dissolved companies caught
Reasons (for claimants) to be cheerful: Donny Surtani assesses the past year in international arbitration
A rash game? David Greene reflects on recent events & predicts the legal highs & lows in the year ahead
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
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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