Issue: Vol 173, Issue 8045

An ‘unsuccessful, widely-reported prosecution’ proved to be ‘an unbeatable marketing tool’ for D H Lawrence novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In this week’s NLJ, freelance feature writer William Gibson revisits the notorious trial

Former JUSTICE director Roger Smith hunts out the serious points among the ‘tittle tattle’ of former prisons minister Rory Stewart’s heavily promoted book, in his NLJ column this week

This week, Michell de Kluyver, Nichola Peters & Harriet Territt, global investigations practice, Addleshaw Goddard, look at the potential introduction of ‘senior manager attribution liability’. As the authors explain, this is a ‘new breed’ of corporate criminal liability, and a definite ‘game changer’

Former district judge Stephen Gold is on form in this week’s Civil way, literally as well as figuratively, as he reports on updates to’N181’ as a result of the fixed recoverable costs reforms

The ‘return’ of a cheque posed a conundrum for the courts in a recent case about the return of a tenant’s deposit on a rented flat. In this week’s NLJ, Edward Blakeney and Fern Schofield, barristers at Falcon Chambers, examine the case along with the ‘surprisingly knotty problem of returning tenancy deposits by cheque and the surprisingly limited amount of authority on this question’

Red Lion Chambers barrister Jonathan Fisher KC has been appointed by the Ministry of Justice to lead an independent review into the disclosure regime and fraud offences

Online court services are adding to delays and undermining access to justice, research by the Law Society has found

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published proposals to reform Supreme Court fees and raise an extra £170,000–£210,000 per year

The Crown Court backlog has hit a record high of more than 65,000 cases, the latest figures reveal

The government will legislate to create a presumption that sentences of less than 12 months should be suspended, the Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk has told MPs