THIS ISSUE
Frontline legal services have the most to gain from artificial intelligence, but also face unique challenges in its provision, write Emily Carter & Sahil Kher
How do overlapping insurance policies interact? In NLJ this week, Chris Bates and Jordan Ball of Penningtons Manches Cooper explore this question in Watford Community Housing Trust v Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd
In this week's NLJ, Emily Carter and Sahil Kher of Kingsley Napley reflect on the Ayinde case and the broader implications of AI in frontline legal services. The authors argue that while AI offers transformative potential for under-resourced law centres, it also deepens the divide between well-funded firms and those on the frontline
How is tech changing the way companies do business, & how can the law keep pace? By Piers Larbey & Izabella Brooks
Strategist, educator, collaborator… the Supreme Court’s decision illustrates the many lives of a high-net-worth adviser, write Sean Hilton & Penny Marshall
Dan Moore, Richard Ellis & Jack Sears provide a guide for insolvency practitioners
Natalie Todd & Nicholas Bortman on the extraordinary measures parties are taking to gather evidence
The murky rise of unlawfully obtained evidence in litigation is explored in this week's NLJ by Natalie Todd of Cooke, Young & Keidan and Nicholas Bortman of Raedas. From hacked emails to covert recordings and pretexting, investigators are pushing legal boundaries—and courts in England and beyond are increasingly admitting such material if it serves the public interest, even as they condemn the methods used
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Laytons ETL—Scott Hilton & Simon Jones
City firm launches real estate corporate team to meet growing client demand
Talbots Law—Clare Regan & Lucy George
Midlands firm appoints head of real estate development
Charles Russell Speechlys—Libby Elliott
Corporate, restructuring and insolvency offering grows with partner hire
NEWS
Personal injury lawyers have urged parliamentarians to reject plans to enact an extra defence in civil cases where child sexual abuse is alleged
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a post-Mazur regulatory review into litigation rights, and is fast-tracking an application from CILEX
The Court of Appeal has upheld the principle of core immunity for advocates, in an important judgment
The Bars, Faculty of Advocates and law societies of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have come together to accuse politicians of putting lawyers at risk through their use of ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ language
The beleaguered TA6 property form has been re-released after almost a year of tests with a working group of residential conveyancers
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