THIS ISSUE
As Stephen Gold ends his journey through the archives at 1995, he meets a canine court user and a sweet trolley suffering from shock
Julian Chamberlayne weighs up the benefits & challenges of a single, dual or multiple personal injury discount rate
Clare Hughes-Williams & Tom Bedford examine concerns about the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s increasing powers on SLAPPs & economic crime
What would Denning do? David Langwallner reports on frustration by impossibility in modern contract law
Justice secretary Dominic Raab acted unlawfully in amending the rules governing Parole Board hearings, the High Court has held.
Lawyers have welcomed the Bar Council of India’s historic decision to allow foreign lawyers and law firms to practise law in India, on a restricted and reciprocal basis.
Ministers are planning to bring in tougher sentences for murder where it is preceded by domestic abuse.
Personal injury lawyers have highlighted problems with the Official Injury Claims (OIC) portal, including a rise in the average settlement time.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights is seeking evidence from lawyers as part of an inquiry into the Illegal Migration Bill.
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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