THIS ISSUE
The lack of fairness in financial settlements means the Divorce, Dissolution & Separation Bill now going through Parliament misses the mark, says Dr Michael Arnheim
Relief from capital gains tax: at what point do you own your home, asks Shofiq Miah
Georgina Squire charts the progress of the use & application of the new disclosure regime
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Whether influencing government policy or managing their own plastics use, lawyers can help reduce environmental damage in a wide variety of ways
Alec Samuels reports on gait recognition evidence
Michael Zander’s response on recent criminal justice royal commissions
Dominic Regan urges the government to think twice before introducing a raft of personal injury reforms
A group of 142 claimants from Sierra Leone has lost its Court of Appeal case against a UK-based mining company for events the trial judge described as ‘violent chaos during the course of which many villagers were variously beaten, shot, gassed, robbed, sexually assaulted, squalidly incarcerated and, in one case, killed’
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Weightmans—Emma Eccles & Mark Woodall
Firm bolsters Manchester insurance practice with double partner appointment
Gilson Gray—Linda Pope
Partner joins family law team inLondon
Jackson Lees Group—five promotions
Private client division announces five new partners
NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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