THIS ISSUE
Doncaster Airport was scheduled to close due to lack of financial viability. The local authority launched a legal challenge, but to no avail.
Optimist Simon Fennell, employment partner at Shoosmiths, searches for employment law positives in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, in the first part of an article in this week’s NLJ.
The insanity defence and legal burdens of proof come under the scrutiny of Simon Parsons, associate lecturer at Bath Spa University, in this week’s NLJ.
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is so enormous in scope that it is difficult to gauge the full extent of its implications.
Is the rule of law safe in the Lord Chancellor, Dominic Raab’s hands? In his column for this week’s NLJ, David Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe, investigates the answer to this question.
How is the rule of law faring under the current Lord Chancellor? David Greene warns against the creeping threats to our rights
Could the revocation of retained EU law provide the opportunity to iron out some headaches for practitioners? Simon Fennell sets out his employment law wish list
Nicholas Dobson reports on the closure of Doncaster Airport & an unsuccessful application for judicial review
Dr Beatriz San Martin, Libby Amos-Stone & Lewis Pope put the controversial Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill under the microscope
Is the ‘golden thread’ of Woolmington wearing thin? Simon Parsons examines the insanity defence & legal burdens of proof
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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