Michael Zander KC
Emeritus professor
Michael Zander KC, NLJ columnist & Emeritus Professor, LSE. Newlawjournal.co.uk
Michael Zander reports on a warning from Sir Jeffrey Jowell: fundamental safeguards are at stake
Michael Zander KC reports on the Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill
Michael Zander suggests that argument over tweaking of the statutory tests is a waste of everyone’s time
"One feels that one is experiencing some of the horror of living under an evil regime and what it takes to oppose such a regime as a lawyer."
Michael Zander on the final stages
Is Dominic Raab’s project doomed? Michael Zander reports on criticism from across the legal spectrum
More harm than good? Professor Michael Zander QC reflects on 10 years of the Woolf Reforms
Michael Zander QC considers the Justice Secretary’s plans for a modern Bill of Rights
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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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