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
Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva
Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice
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Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson
London labour and employment team announces partner hire
Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly
Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion
NEWS
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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