THIS ISSUE
Is Dominic Raab’s project doomed? Michael Zander reports on criticism from across the legal spectrum
Amy Zuckerman reports on how lawyers can help their clients deal with the media
When to call a general election: a matter for the prime minister to decide (once again). Neil Parpworth reports on the new Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022
Andrew Francis provides a masterclass on how best to deploy an expert witness in a property dispute
Matthew Kay investigates the pros & cons of training home-based workers
Ravi Aswani & Valya Georgieva consider a quarter-century of the Arbitration Act 1996: where might it go from here?
Jon Robins laments the rise of politicians trying to look tough on crime
Casey Randall, Head of DNA at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the benefits of prenatal paternity testing for legal proceedings, including when counsel might instruct this test, and how it’s performed at the DNA laboratory
An open & rigorous process for dealing with complaints of judicial misconduct is essential to maintaining public trust, says John Gould
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
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
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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