THIS ISSUE
Caroline Shea KC & Thomas Rothwell consider the Supreme Court’s latest guidance on injunctions binding newcomers
David Burrows raises some questions about the Family Division’s open justice pilot scheme
TUPE changes; CPR and tribunal rules; FRC invasion imminent; X-examination peanuts; AI reaches the law; Head bashing; CPR Pt 71 under the microscope
The end of 2023 brought a blizzard of new legislation & some thorny EAT decisions. Ian Smith sweeps through them with gusto
Andy Cullwick offers advice on attracting, keeping & treating clients well
Elizabeth Rimmer explains the importance of understanding psychosocial risk in legal workplaces
Jack Ridgway offers advice on every solicitor’s bugbear, the estimate of costs
Graham Zellick believes the government is wrong to annul the subpostmasters’ convictions by legislation
From encouragement to compulsion? Mediation in English civil justice after Churchill by Bryan Clark & Zora Kizilyurek
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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