THIS ISSUE
Chloe Mulroy shares a short guide to the dos & don’ts of legal indemnity insurance
Charles Auld & Kate Harrington trace the introduction, construction & interpretation of s 146 notices
Leasehold conveyancing: how rogue managing agents can cause delays. Veronica Cowan reports
The Court of Appeal has warned solicitors not to duplicate the work done by counsel, after drastically reducing recoverable costs in an appeal against a costs order.
Employers who enhance maternity pay for women do not discriminate against men taking shared parental leave at lower rates, the Court of Appeal has held.
Potential special guardians for children submitted at a late stage in proceedings ‘must be realistic and not merely a trawl through all possible options’, the President of the Family Division has said.
For property solicitors, the intricacies of legal indemnity insurance ‘can often get lost in translation’, says legal indemnity executive and former underwriter Chloe Mulroy.
Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson MP has been summonsed to court over accusations of three offences of misconduct in public office, a District Judge has held.
Criminal barristers are voting on whether to stage a ‘whole profession walkout’ on 1 July over prosecution and defence fees
Court of Protection specialist comes on board as consultant
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Gilson Gray—Linda Pope
Partner joins family law team inLondon
Jackson Lees Group—five promotions
Private client division announces five new partners
Taylor Wessing—Max Millington
Banking and finance team welcomes partner in London
NEWS
Transferring anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing supervision to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) could create extra paperwork and increase costs for clients, lawyers have warned
In this week's NLJ, Bhavini Patel of Howard Kennedy LLP reports on Almacantar v De Valk [2025], a landmark Upper Tribunal ruling extending protection for leaseholders under the Building Safety Act 2022
Writing in NLJ this week, Hanna Basha and Jamie Hurworth of Payne Hicks Beach dissect TV chef John Torode’s startling decision to identify himself in a racism investigation he denied. In an age of ‘cancel culture’, they argue, self-disclosure can both protect and imperil reputations
As he steps down as Chancellor
of the High Court, Sir Julian
Flaux reflects on over 40 years
in law, citing independence,
impartiality and integrity as
guiding principles. In a special
interview with Grania Langdon-Down for NLJ, Sir Julian highlights morale, mentorship and openness as key to a thriving judiciary
Dinsdale v Fowell is a High Court case entangling bigamy, intestacy and modern family structures, examined in this week's NLJ by Shivi Rajput of Stowe Family Law
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