THIS ISSUE
Neil Parpworth looks at current Downing Street shenanigans through the lens of a previous legal challenge
An alternative approach to joint expert statements could deliver a far more useful tool for judges, as Jessica Resch, Tim Giles & Maja Glowka explain
Elan-Cane: has the Supreme Court created an imbalance in rights protection between binary & non-binary genders? Jack Castle & Oscar Davies examine the ruling
William Gibson recounts some heated moments from the world of costs
Victory in the Court of Appeal: Andrew Francis tackles the enforceability of covenants
With the judiciary’s increasing willingness to be flexible on compulsory ADR, Paul Dorrans & Camilla Pratt look ahead to what may come next
Elspeth Guild & Rebecca Niblock cast doubt on government plans to use the Navy to deter asylum seekers
Divorce rules out; Service charge enforcement; E-bundle breakdowns; 167 out of 1793 may do
John McMullen presents a round-up of the latest cases on TUPE transfers
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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