THIS ISSUE
Dr Ping-fat Sze examines the reviewability of prosecutorial decisions & asks: are mistakes being made?
Too fast, too slow, too far, not far enough? Neil Parpworth tracks the progress of the Hereditary Peers Bill
In their first quarterly update monitoring trends in the Family Court, Ellie Hampson-Jones & Carla Ditz discuss cases involving jurisdiction, privacy, FDR hearings & private equity
Ashley Friday, Sample Collections Manager at AlphaBiolabs, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about the SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring® bracelet
Elaina Bailes & Tom Otter chart the recent resurgence of representative actions post Lloyd v Google
Sophie Houghton on why it doesn’t pay to put forward overly ambitious figures in costs budgets
James Ward on why the families of business owners, landowners, and those with pension assets will be the most heavily impacted by the recent Budget measures
“This sophisticated, insightful, and highly readable book brings considerable intellectual rigour to a...neglected area of employment law scholarship”
What should be done about the Peers? That’s the ‘92 excepted hereditary peers who remain active legislators’, not the House of Lords as a whole. In this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, Leicester De Montfort Law School, continues his series on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, introduced in the House of Commons in September
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly
Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team
Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees
Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees
Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron
Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes
NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
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