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Hurdles to offering a solicitor apprenticeship degree

With the Labour government planning to reform apprenticeships, Michael Butler and Chloe Sheppick, Director and Deputy Director, respectively, of the Professional Law Institute, discuss the existing difficulties with the solicitor apprenticeship degree that stop many higher education institutions providing this valuable offering

Public inquiries under scrutiny: Learning lessons from past inquiries and enhancing public trust

Following the release of the public inquiries report by the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee, Dr Emma Ireton, Associate Professor in Public Inquiry Law and Procedure, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, looks at the report’s findings

World Mental Health Day 2024 focuses on mental health at work

To mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October, John McElroy, Vice-President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA) and a Partner at Fieldfisher, shares his thoughts on how to promote mental wellbeing in the workplace

The FCA annual report and reflections on enforcement

Emma Probyn, Partner, and Sharon Grennan, Knowledge Lawyer, from Freshfields’ financial institutions disputes practice, share their thoughts on the latest annual report from the Financial Conduct Authority

Nick Ephgrave’s first year as SFO Director

Lloyd Firth, counsel, and Fred Saugman, senior associate, in WilmerHale’s UK white collar defence and investigations team, reflect on the first year of Nick Ephgrave’s tenure at the Serious Fraud Office

The qualifying limit for unfair dismissal will define the new Labour government

John Hayes, Managing Partner at Constantine Law, discusses the significance of the Labour government’s promise to reduce the qualifying limit for unfair dismissal

Transparency International sheds light on public procurement during the pandemic

Following the publication of Transparency International UK’s report on corruption red flags in Covid-19 public procurement, Tamlyn Edmonds and Jack Walsh from Edmonds Marshall McMahon discuss the claims made in the report and whether the impending changes being brought in by the Procurement Act 2023 will address the problem in future

Latest annual report shows significant uptick in the FCA’s interventions in regard to authorised firms

Pete Chapman and Tim Thomas from Richardson Lissack make sense of the regulator’s latest annual report and accounts