THIS ISSUE
Doncaster Airport was scheduled to close due to lack of financial viability. The local authority launched a legal challenge, but to no avail.
Optimist Simon Fennell, employment partner at Shoosmiths, searches for employment law positives in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, in the first part of an article in this week’s NLJ.
The insanity defence and legal burdens of proof come under the scrutiny of Simon Parsons, associate lecturer at Bath Spa University, in this week’s NLJ.
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is so enormous in scope that it is difficult to gauge the full extent of its implications.
Is the rule of law safe in the Lord Chancellor, Dominic Raab’s hands? In his column for this week’s NLJ, David Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe, investigates the answer to this question.
How is the rule of law faring under the current Lord Chancellor? David Greene warns against the creeping threats to our rights
Could the revocation of retained EU law provide the opportunity to iron out some headaches for practitioners? Simon Fennell sets out his employment law wish list
Nicholas Dobson reports on the closure of Doncaster Airport & an unsuccessful application for judicial review
Dr Beatriz San Martin, Libby Amos-Stone & Lewis Pope put the controversial Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill under the microscope
Is the ‘golden thread’ of Woolmington wearing thin? Simon Parsons examines the insanity defence & legal burdens of proof
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
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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