Issue: Vol 172, Issue 7966

Douglas Maxwell looks to the year ahead & examines what more can be done to level up building safety

"The Conveyancing Handbook is an essential item for every practitioner specialising in property law"

Donna Spence on why automating the conveyancing process is good news for clients & practitioners

With the floodgates beginning to open, Caroline Harbord & Candice Johnson examine the first collective competition claims under the opt-out regime

Are increasing professional indemnity insurance premiums posing a threat to small law firms? Veronica Cowan investigates

Simon Parsons examines the remit & limitations of international law in averting global conflict

John Cleverly & Azeem Suterwalla consider the potentially far-reaching & unexpected effects of proposals in the Judicial Review and Courts Bill

Ian Smith draws inner strength from a great statesman &  tackles the impenetrable conundrum that is unjust enrichment & quantum meruit

The Judicial Review and Courts Bill may be described in some quarters as ‘relatively uncontroversial’―but it has ‘potentially far-reaching effects’. Writing in this week’s NLJ, John Cleverly, senior associate at Osborne Clarke and Azeem Suterwalla, barrister at Monckton Chambers, explore the unexpected effects of the Bill, which endured a bumpy ride at second reading in the House of Lords this week and is now on its way to scrutiny at committee stage