THIS ISSUE
Short-changing the court; overseas and watched; standard orders ready; (till the next time); too much relief.
Rupa Lakha & Neeva Desai spotlight growing opportunities in the liberalised Indian legal market
AI is here, and corporate lawyers are fine: Ziad Mantoura hails the rise of tech & the new holistic approach
In the first of an occasional back page series, Michael Zander asks how much confidence people have in the jury system
Lawyers have welcomed changes to the means test for legal aid, but expressed concern at the ‘slow’ rate of progress.
The government cannot refuse advance payments of universal credit to claimants in financial hardship simply because they don’t have a national insurance number (NINo), the Court of Appeal has held.
Security firm Serco has been fined £2.25m and ordered to pay £433,596 in costs at the Old Bailey for health and safety failings following the death of custody officer Lorraine Barwell.
LexisNexis has launched Space industry, an authoritative and comprehensive statement of the law in an area of increasing importance to lawyers, as part of Halsbury’s Laws of England.
Personal injury lawyers have called for the limitation period for claims from victims of child abuse to be abolished with immediate effect.
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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