Issue: Vol 175, Issue 8114

The Crime and Policing Bill is a monster—running to 317 pages and with 137 clauses! Helpfully, Michael Zander KC, NLJ columnist and Emeritus Professor, LSE, has summarised the key provisions. In this week’s NLJ, he presents part one of his guide.

The next pope will be chosen this weekend, but what will take place within the Sistine Chapel before the white smoke rises? In this week’s NLJ, Athelstane Aamodt, group legal advisor at Associated Newspapers, delves into the obscure and arcane rules that govern the event.

Don’t cry! Ciara Cullen, Joshy Thomas & Emma Dunnill peel back the many layers of content scraping & copyright

The amended Bill disapplies the coroner’s statutory duty to investigate, so assisted deaths would receive less judicial oversight than other unnatural deaths, writes HH Thomas Teague KC

The Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers has sparked heated debate and a lot of confusion about what it means exactly in practice. In this week’s NLJ, Nicholas Dobson takes an in-depth look at some of the legal arguments behind the judgment.

Nicholas Dobson examines the reasoning behind the Supreme Court’s recent decision on sex & gender

As the world waits to find out who will become the next pope, Athelstane Aamodt explains how the Catholic Church will make the decision

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has been widely criticised, notably for its mishandling of the case of Andrew Malkinson (pictured), who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. This culminated in the Law Commission’s recent proposal that the CCRC’s ‘real possibility’ referral test be replaced. But not everyone agrees. In this week’s NLJ, Professor Graham Zellick, who chaired the CCRC from 2003 to 2008, mounts a strong defence of the test.

Can you call it? Dominic Regan plays damages bingo & enjoys a sunny day in court