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Public inquiries: why recommendations too often go unheeded

As statutory inquiries proliferate, persistent failures to implement their recommendations risk undermining accountability, governance and public trust

Concentration risk: how cloud is reshaping outsourcing

The Critical Third Party regime adds sector-wide oversight of cloud providers without removing firm-level responsibility for operational resilience

SJ Interview: Sohail Ali

Sohail Ali is a Disputes partner at DLA Piper, advising clients on complex cross-border litigation and arbitration matters. Alongside his practice, is also is a...

Unconscionability and the claimant's conduct in proprietary estoppel

How a claimant's behaviour towards the legal owner, before and after judgment, can bar or modify equitable relief

SJ Interview: Chris Spelman

Chris Spelman is a partner in DWF's London dispute resolution team, specialising in financial services litigation and investigations, whistleblowing matters, and class action, securities and...

Workplace bullying law and employer risk

UK workplace bullying lacks statutory definition, leaving gaps in protection and increasing legal risk for employers

Inside the growing judgement gap

As AI spreads in law firms, experienced human judgement is quietly disappearing

Youth sentencing, custody thresholds, and judicial discretion examined

How legal frameworks governing child defendants shape outcomes in serious sexual offence cases before the Court of Appeal