THIS ISSUE
Practical advice on how to protect your client from unlawful detention, even on Friday afternoons, is the subject of an article by Red Lion Chambers’ barristers Jenni Dempster KC and Alex Benn, in this week’s NLJ
The grim events in Israel and Gaza are tragic and horrifying. In a three-page article in this week’s NLJ, Marc Weller, professor of international law at Cambridge University, and Malik Dahlan, professor of international law at Queen Mary University of London, look at the events from a legal perspective
A surge in decisions on anti-suit injunctions in the presence of an arbitration clause has caused the courts to grapple with the differences between the English and French legal systems
Brevity is the soul of wit…and also a legal requirement for expert reports on the intermediate track for civil claims. But will 20 pages be enough, asks Mark Solon, chairman, Wilmington Legal & founder, Bond Solon, in an article in this week’s NLJ?
What is an expert? Do they have to be attached to a regulatory body? What type of accreditation is required? In this week’s NLJ, Dr Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, looks at two recent cases on this conundrum
The ban on ‘no fault’ evictions in the Renters Reform Bill will be delayed until after court reforms take place, housing secretary Michael Gove has told MPs
The Court of Appeal has clarified the relevant date for assessing habitual residence during Hague Child Protection Convention proceedings
Solicitors could face fines in future if their money laundering checks are found to be too lax
Dame Ingrid Simler has been appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has won its High Court challenge against an $11bn arbitration award granted to Process & Industrial Developments (PID), a hedge fund-backed company registered in the British Virgin Islands
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin
Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire
Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy
Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England
DR Solicitors—Paul Edels
Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment
NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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