THIS ISSUE
Some 32 law firms including Magic Circle firm Linklaters have signed up to a major new diversity data collection exercise
Solicitors have been warned to exercise ‘extreme caution’, following the launch of the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) this week
Nicholas Dobson looks at a controversial fee uplift at the much-loved Hampstead swimming ponds, in this week’s NLJ
Falcon Chambers’ Fern Schofield and Anthony Tanney look at what turned into a hollow victory in the Court of Appeal, in this week’s NLJ
The High Court has found the council liable for the deaths of four Grenfell Tower residents in the 14 June 2017 fire, in which 72 people died, and for the effects of the fire on another five people
The 2022 edition of the Chancery Guide is now in force and available to view
Legal history was made at the Old Bailey in the case of Ben Oliver, where the judge’s sentencing remarks were filmed for TV for the first time
The Bar Council has accused the Legal Services Board (LSB) of ‘overstepping’ and branded its competence statement ‘a solution in search of a problem’
A competition and patent trial between two disputing toymakers has been postponed until October 2024 after the defendants told the court three weeks before that they’d missed about 84,000 documents during disclosure
It's time for another spin in former District Judge Stephen Gold’s tardis, as NLJ’s very own Time Lord takes us back to the early days of this esteemed legal magazine
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
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
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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