New powers will make it easier for Competition and Markets Authority to take direct action on consumer law breaches.

The defendant in XX & Anor v Young & Anor took issue with the costs claimed for internal communications by the claimant’s ...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission has launched a case studies hub to help ‘inform potential applicants’ about the ...

In 25 years of practice, I never met a clerk who, if he or his master did not want a case, could not evade it.

For mid-market firms, the advent of generative AI is a double-edged sword. The technology can handle routine tasks and free ...

While a full-scale wave of private equity-backed consolidation in legal services has yet to materialise, there are early ...

The firm has been instructed to pursue legal action to secure a pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK.

Now, surely, the many legal disabilities and discriminations women suffered, and to which feminists had repeatedly drawn ...

Spanning multiple jurisdictions and involving significant sums, the case featured many distinctive elements - not least that ...

From a young age growing up in Hong Kong, I knew I wanted to become a lawyer. Hong Kong’s legal system, rooted in English ...

The lack of automatic enforceability of PNAs is often cited as a key issue. Critics argue that without legal certainty, PNAs fail to provide their intended protection. However, the reality is that ...

There are only narrow exceptions to legal professional privilege, one of which has historically (according to longstanding Court of Appeal and High Court authority) been the shareholder rule. The ...