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UK’s Industrial Strategy returns with sector focus

The UK’s revived Industrial Strategy sets 2035 targets across key sectors, balancing long-term growth with political cycles

Employment Rights Bill 2025: Key Reforms, Timelines and Implications for Practice

Sweeping reforms in the Employment Rights Bill will reshape workplace law and demand early practitioner guidance

Forty years on, surrogacy law is still playing catch-up

Despite international growth in surrogacy, UK law remains reactive, outdated and ill-equipped for today’s challenges

SJ Interview: James Palmer CBE

James Palmer CBE, Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, has long been recognised as one of the UK’s most influential corporate lawyers and policy voices. Awarded a CBE in 2025 for his services to business and law, he has combined a high-profile career in M&A with decades of work on legal reform. In this interview, he discusses the challenges of legislative inflation and corporate advice, access to justice, and the future role of technology.

How the amended English Arbitration Act puts London at the centre of global arbitration reform

The Arbitration Act 2025 introduces reforms enhancing efficiency, certainty, and London’s global leadership in international arbitration

Exploring The Data (Use and Access) Act

The DUA 2025 reforms UK data law, reshaping compliance for organisations while promising simpler rules and stronger enforcement powers

‘J’ ACCUSE…!’

Dr Jason McCue, Senior Partner at McCue Jury & Partners and Committee Member of the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes, calls on governments, the international community and individuals to act against the atrocities of genocide, war crimes, aggression and crimes against humanity taking place around the world

SJ Interview: Mark Sansom

The Solicitors Journal speaks to Mark Sansom, London and Dublin Managing Partner at Freshfields.