THIS ISSUE
Nick Redfearn & Adelaide Yu offer tips on brand protection amid a flourishing counterfeit market in Hong Kong
Provide clients with accurate costs estimates for administering estates, or risk a challenge from disgruntled beneficiaries, warns Kris Kilsby
Marie Davies, Toxicology Reporting Manager at AlphaBiolabs, discusses alcohol test reports, including some of the most frequently asked questions about alcohol testing
Liam Tolen & Chris Fotheringham ask whether the law can protect individuals from deepfake harms
“The policing of protest has been conducted in a routinely violent way for more than four decades”
Judges and magistrates have for the first time been given sentencing guidelines for the most serious animal cruelty offences, including tail docking, ear cropping, fighting and causing unnecessary suffering.
A record number of Russian litigants appeared in the London Commercial Courts last year, despite the war in Ukraine and sanctions.
A ‘child violence diversion order’ should be created to deal with cases of children arrested on suspicion of committing terrorist offences, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, has recommended.
A dentist did not breach regulations when she mixed NHS and private work on the same tooth, the Court of Appeal has held.
The Home Office is consulting on proposals to ban SIM farms, as part of its Fraud Strategy.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Hugh James—Phil Edwards
Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire
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Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe
Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire
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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