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Product liability reform: Rethinking responsibility in the digital age

The Law Commission’s proposed overhaul of product liability law would extend its reach to software and AI, reshape the rules on evidence and broaden potential...

3D-printed firearms: the new disclosure battleground

As 3D-printed firearms reshape criminal investigations, digital evidence and disclosure obligations present new challenges for practitioners

Secondary liability: Where presence becomes participation

A decade after Jogee, courts continue to grapple with the evidential boundaries of secondary liability in homicide cases

SJ Interview: Helen Bunker

Helen Bunker, chair of Blake Morgan, speaks to Solicitors Journal

Government plans shake-up of directors’ pay reporting and shareholder votes

Proposals to simplify corporate reporting would remove quoted companies’ annual advisory vote on directors’ remuneration, raising questions over shareholder oversight and the future operation of...

Rethinking sentencing for domestic homicide

Proposed changes to domestic homicide sentencing may address one disparity while creating others within an already complex framework

Carter-Ruck v SRA: legal privilege and the scope of regulatory investigations

The High Court has held that the SRA’s information-gathering powers under section 44B of the Solicitors Act 1974 do not extend to compelling the production...

A Stronger Planning Framework for a Changing Energy Market

New Opportunities for Renewables, Data Centres and High-Energy Development