Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7336

Solicitors are installing panic buttons and thumb print scanners due to ‘systemic and rising’ intimidation including death and arson threats from clients

Ministers’ decision to scrap plans for their Labour manifesto pledge of day one protection from unfair dismissal was entirely predictable, employment lawyers have said

Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure

NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column

Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week