THIS ISSUE
Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar Council, sets out her plans to pilot reflective practice—an approach used successfully by doctors, social workers and other stress-ridden professionals—at the Bar, in this week’s NLJ.
Recent caselaw in property come under the careful scrutiny of Fern Schofield and Gwyneth Everson, Falcon Chambers, in this week’s NLJ, in a new series of quarterly reviews.
Sir Mark Hedley on what needs to be considered as a result of this amendment to the assisted dying Bill
He was known as ‘Baron Ego of Eye’, and also as ‘the greatest ever exponent of the art of persuasion when addressing judges and juries’. Writing in this week’s NLJ, David Walbank KC, Red Lion Chambers, pays tribute to Thomas Erskine, a barrister of extraordinary eloquence.
David Walbank KC pays tribute to Thomas Erskine, ‘the invincible orator & undaunted patriot’
Diane Dickson examines the legal framework for green building, explaining the latest changes & their impact on practitioners & clients
Enforcement of debt recovery through the courts ‘does not work’ and ‘adds unnecessary complexities’, a Civil Justice Council (CJC) working group has concluded in a ground-breaking report.
Two brothers have been sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in the first-ever UK prosecution of Russian sanction breaches.
The former Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, former Lady Justice of Appeal Dame Anne Rafferty and former director of public prosecutions Max Hill KC have backed the creation of an intermediate criminal court consisting of a judge and two magistrates.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton
Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner
Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan
Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office
Blake Morgan—four promotions
Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices
NEWS
The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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