THIS ISSUE
Dr Ping-fat Sze examines the reviewability of prosecutorial decisions & asks: are mistakes being made?
Too fast, too slow, too far, not far enough? Neil Parpworth tracks the progress of the Hereditary Peers Bill
In their first quarterly update monitoring trends in the Family Court, Ellie Hampson-Jones & Carla Ditz discuss cases involving jurisdiction, privacy, FDR hearings & private equity
Ashley Friday, Sample Collections Manager at AlphaBiolabs, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about the SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring® bracelet
Elaina Bailes & Tom Otter chart the recent resurgence of representative actions post Lloyd v Google
Sophie Houghton on why it doesn’t pay to put forward overly ambitious figures in costs budgets
James Ward on why the families of business owners, landowners, and those with pension assets will be the most heavily impacted by the recent Budget measures
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What should be done about the Peers? That’s the ‘92 excepted hereditary peers who remain active legislators’, not the House of Lords as a whole. In this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, Leicester De Montfort Law School, continues his series on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, introduced in the House of Commons in September
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
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
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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