THIS ISSUE
In this week’s NLJ, employment barrister Ian Smith investigates a trio of unusual cases, including on the issue of when a court can directly enforce a valid restraint of trade clause against an ex-employee, (and what about their need to earn a living?)
The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos is proposing a digitalisation project that ‘will change the whole nature of civil litigation’, barrister Stephen Shaw writes in this week’s NLJ
Laura Walliss, senior knowledge lawyer, and Rosie Todd, partner, Stevens & Bolton, tackle some of the myths, common perceptions and difficulties surrounding digital assets when it comes to estate planning and administration, in this week’s NLJ
Does the ever-expanding scope of domestic abuse law risk creating confusion & inconsistency in prosecution? Danielle Reece-Greenhalgh investigates
Quiet summer? Think again! Ian Smith ventures off the beaten track to explore the latest (& most unusual) cases
Linda Ford discusses the benefits of learning on the job & the fast-track routes for aspiring lawyers
The Master of the Rolls is pursuing an ambitious transformation of civil justice as we know it—and he deserves all the support he can get, says Stephen Shaw
Estate planning & administration: Laura Walliss & Rosie Todd examine the many difficulties posed by digital assets
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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