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Professor Graham Zellick KC reflects on his years in the judicial foothills
Cannan fire; easing in rental reform; the no-fix ‘fix’; upstairs practice; making ‘em up.
The billable hour rewarded time over talent & sacrifice over sustainability. Good riddance, says Ian McDougall
Gary Pons, Sarah Wood & Barnaby Hone consider the approach to cryptoassets under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Victoria Rylatt & Robyn Laye report on recent issues that have arisen in fact-finding hearings
Janet Carter sets out how to retain ‘judgment by peers’ for all trials with a new plan
Nick Marsh & Alex Bromwich on s 72 of the Arbitration Act 1996: three 2025 judgments show that parties should act promptly & plead consistently
*Partner copy* Drug misuse in England and Wales: implications for family law
*Partner copy* Drug misuse in England and Wales: implications for family law
Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, examines the latest ONS data on drug misuse and its implications for toxicology testing in family law cases
Hallucinated case law is one of the major pitfalls of using technology in legal practice, writes Dr Charanjit Singh
As artificial intelligence takes the field, sport faces new legal & governance dilemmas: Ian Blackshaw examines the state of play
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NLJ Career Profile: Sonya Sceats, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Sonya Sceats, next director and CEO of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, discusses her long-standing mission to uphold and defend the rule of law
Anthony Collins—four appointments
Property and commercial teams bolstered by senior hires
Keystone Law—Ben Knowles
International arbitration specialist strenghtens the team
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Manchester’s online LLM has accelerated career progression for its graduates
Judging is ‘more intellectually demanding than any other role in public life’—and far messier than outsiders imagine. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC reflects on decades spent wrestling with unclear legislation, fragile precedent and human fallibility
The long-predicted death of the billable hour may finally be here—and this time, it’s armed with a scythe. In a sweeping critique of time-based billing, Ian McDougall, president of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, argues in this week's NLJ that artificial intelligence has made hourly charging ‘intellectually, commercially and ethically indefensible’
From fake authorities to rent reform, the civil courts have had a busy start to 2026. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold surveys a procedural landscape where guidance, discretion and discipline are all under strain
Fact-finding hearings remain a fault line in private family law. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Rylatt and Robyn Laye of Anthony Gold Solicitors analyse recent appeals exposing the dangers of rushed or fragmented findings
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