THIS ISSUE
Damages-based agreements (DBAs) are the seldom-used option when it comes to ‘no win no fee’ cases, but is their lack of popularity justified? In this week’s NLJ, solicitor and DBA-proponent Richard Spector, partner at Spector Constant and Williams shares his personal experience of running DBA cases.
The extension of fixed recoverable costs is coming, despite some speculation that the project was being abandoned, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School reveals in this week’s NLJ column, 'The Insider'.
Experts are advised not to amalgamate or exaggerate, when giving evidence, in an expert witness special in this week’s NLJ.
Nicholas Dobson dissects the nuisance case that hit the headlines and shocked art aficionados, Fearn v Tate Gallery Trustees, in this week’s NLJ.
‘Suspicionless’ stop and search is one of many controversial provisions in the Public Order Bill. Public and media attention has also focused on its restrictions on protest. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, looks in more detail at clauses 10 and 11, which sought to extend the powers of stop and search.
Fixed costs to come when the leaves fall? Dominic Regan tackles listing woes, distressed litigation funders & what’s spooking the banks
Vijay Ganapathy reflects on the pros and cons of QOCS reform, and highlights developments in the courts on whiplash claims and unsafe exposure
Neil Parpworth reports on the scrutiny of the Public Order Bill—and its proposed new powers for stop & search—in the House of Lords
Rooms with a view: Nicholas Dobson charts the long journey from the High Court to the Supreme Court and back again for Fearn v Tate Gallery Trustees
With the revocation of remaining EU legislation on the horizon, Fred Philpott highlights the challenges & opportunities for consumer credit law
MOVERS & SHAKERS
NLJ Career Profile: Kadie Bennett, Anthony Collins
Kadie Bennett, senior associate at Anthony Collins and chair of the Resolution West Midlands Group, discusses her long-standing passion for family law and calls for unity in the profession
Osborne Clarke—Lara Burch
Firm appoints new UK senior partner for 2026
Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson
Healthcare and sports legal team expands in the north west
NEWS
Lawyers and users of the business and property courts are invited to share their views on disclosure, in particular the operation of PD 57AD and the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and artificial intelligence (AI)
Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ
Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
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