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The number of divorces per year has fallen below 10,000 for the first time since the 1970s, prompting family lawyers to renew calls for marriage reform.
Access to justice, to a career at the Bar and to international markets will be the priorities for 2020, Bar Chair Amanda Pinto QC has said in her inaugural speech
Little has been achieved during the Brexit years because the government has been overwhelmed by preparations for life outside the EU
Law firm welcomes new family law specialist
The shortage of medical expert witness in the family courts is creating delays ‘likely in some cases to be harmful to children’, a working group has found
Divorce specialist joins Reading Office
Building on existing talent
Global arbitration law firm announces new counsel
The Supreme Court has extended the scope of protection for whistleblowers, in a ruling that a Royal Mail employee was unfairly dismissed
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch
Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice
Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr
Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team
Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown
Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team
NEWS
NOTICE UNDER THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925
HERBERT SMITH STAFF PENSION SCHEME (THE “SCHEME”)
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND BENEFICIARIES UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925
Law firm HFW is offering clients lawyers on call for dawn raids, sanctions issues and other regulatory emergencies
From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act
Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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