THIS ISSUE
Casey Randall, Head of DNA at AlphaBiolabs, explores what you need to know about DNA testing for immigration
How does the court approach the issue of adult children who claim a will fails to provide for them? Myles McIntosh reports
Bernhard Schmeilzl runs through some typical problems & costly mistakes when dealing with probate cases involving the UK & Germany
Charles Pigott reports on a Court of Appeal ruling widening the scope for back-dated holiday pay claims
The UK courts have been exploring the limits of litigation brought by or on behalf of data subjects where there has been unlawful transmission or disclosure of personal data: Fergus McCombie of 36 Commercial surveys the state of play
Alec Samuels discusses how coroners' reports could help to prevent future deaths
Pimlico Plumbers smoothes the path to back-dated holiday claims
Judgments good, bad, ‘breathtaking’ & divided
NLJ's Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week's issue
MOVERS & SHAKERS
CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson
Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council
Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill
Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge
Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin
Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire
NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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