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
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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
Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown
Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team
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Excello Law—Heather Horsewood & Darren Barwick
North west team expands with senior private client and property hires
Ward Hadaway—Paul Wigham
Firm boosts corporate team in Newcastle to support high-growth technology businesses
NEWS
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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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