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
“This sophisticated, insightful, and highly readable book brings considerable intellectual rigour to a...neglected area of employment law scholarship”
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
Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers
Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Paula Myers to private capital team in Leeds
mfg Solicitors—five promotions
Law firm mfg Solicitors announces five promotions at Birmingham office
Brabners—six promotions
Brabners adds six to partnership in record year for partner promotions
NEWS
The legal profession's AI challenge extends far beyond fabricated case citations, according to a warning about the next phase of technological risk
Law firms should use the transition period before the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) assumes anti-money laundering (AML) supervision to strengthen governance and compliance, experts have warned
Cross-border disputes increasingly demand creative approaches to gathering evidence, with litigators needing to look beyond traditional letters of request
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified the distinction between contracts of 'indefinite' and 'perpetual' duration, with potentially significant implications for commercial drafting
The Court of Appeal was entitled to uphold the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, according to an analysis of the ruling
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