THIS ISSUE
Business as usual; New liability for employers; Latest FPR PD update; Bankruptcy annulment; Mission for no commission
Sailesh Mehta & Tom Davies put the Lucy Letby Inquiry under the spotlight
Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC looks back to the feud of Bacon & Coke
Imran Khodabocus calls for honour-based abuse to be given a legal definition
Tim Suter & Sophie Cartwright KC look at the measures available to support vulnerable witnesses
Laura Rees suggests it’s time Parliament reviewed the Solicitors Act 1974 to give consumers & solicitors better protection
The government has missed an opportunity to establish a legal definition of honour-based abuse, Imran Khodabocus, director, the Family Law Company, writes in this week’s NLJ. A recommendation that this be done was made by the Women and Equalities Committee but rejected by the government in September
Nicola Brant finds troublesome defects in the Act which was meant to improve building safety after Grenfell
How is the EU law thread in Agnew to be applied to the rest of the UK? Charles Pigott reports
MOVERS & SHAKERS
NLJ Career Profile: Kate Gaskell, Flex Legal
Kate Gaskell, CEO of Flex Legal, reflects on chasing her childhood dreams underscores the importance of welcoming those from all backgrounds into the profession
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Dorsey & Whitney—Jonathan Christy
Dispute resolution team welcomes associate in London
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Winckworth Sherwood—Kevin McManamon
Special education needs and mental capacity expert joins as partner
NEWS
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
In Ward v Rai, the High Court reaffirmed that imprecise points of dispute can and will be struck out. Writing in NLJ this week, Amy Dunkley of Bolt Burdon Kemp reports on the decision and its implications for practitioners
Could the Supreme Court’s
ruling in R v Hayes; R v Palombo
unintentionally unsettle future
complex fraud trials? Maia Cohen-Lask of Corker Binning explores
the question in NLJ this week
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