THIS ISSUE
Stress needn’t be a constant in the lives of lawyers. The damage it can do is real, significant and, thankfully, can be reduced in many situations. In a must-read in this week’s NLJ, Hansa Pankhania, CEO of AUM Wellbeing Consultancy, offers tips and guidance on what to do when stress creeps up.
What are they really saying? NLJ columnist and former director of Justice, Roger Smith translates the ‘urbane language’ of the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee in this week’s issue, as he casts a critical eye on the progress of the courts & tribunals modernisation programme.
The Renters Reform Bill aims to change the nature of the landlord-tenant relationship, improving tenants’ security while giving greater flexibility to landlords. But can it achieve this? In this week’s NLJ, Gary Scott, partner at Spector, Constant & Williams, assess its chances.
While the Court of Appeal ruling that effectively halted the removal of ten asylum seekers to Rwanda in June was hailed as a victory by campaigners, the reality is less clear-cut, Dr Romit Bhandari writes in this week’s NLJ.
The government succeeded in blocking a potential judicial review, in a recent case on ouster clauses (Oceana). How concerned should we be about this development?
Will the courts & tribunals modernisation programme end up a victim of its own overambition? Roger Smith cuts through the government hype to find the facts
Intended to deliver a ‘renting revolution’, the Renters Reform Bill may ultimately achieve just the opposite: Gary Scott lists some causes for concern
Where is the line between the right to freedom of religion & the lawful expression of that right? Nicholas Dobson examines a complex question for the Employment Appeal Tribunal
In the first of a two-part series, David Burrows puts the case for pre-conditional order approval of financial settlements
The Court of Appeal’s decision on the Rwanda flights is less clear-cut than the outcome suggests, writes Dr Romit Bhandari
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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