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NLJ this week: Expertise on display in court, damages bingo & sunny days

02 May 2025
Issue: 8114 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Damages , Expert Witness , Legal services
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Professor Dominic Regan, of City Law School, turns his attention to judges and experts, in this week’s NLJ column. On the importance of experts, it seems a judge can change their mind.

High Court in London or county court in Cardiff? Our columnist recalls a judge’s complaint, and highlights the slow pace of justice in the county courts. He writes: ‘The county court model is broken despite the herculean efforts of district judges in particular to keep things moving.’

Regan also recommends the work of a 5 Essex Chambers silk, about whom ‘I only hear good things’.

For the latest on the courts, judges, costs and advocacy, read the latest Insider column.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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