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We’re breaking the menopause taboo, but the legal sector has a long way to go

Amandeep Khasriya discusses how the menopause affects women in the legal sector and celebrates the progress made at law firm Moore Barlow

The Leasehold and Freehold Bill: what do the proposals mean?

Mark Chick provides an overview of the changes proposed in the King’s Speech and what these might mean for leaseholders

Clarity from the Supreme Court: no break for employers on holiday pay

Sejal Raja explores the background to the recent Supreme Court ruling, the law that came before, the details of the decision, and what it means for workers and their employers

Education combined with regulation will be key to solving the nation’s ‘debanking’ debacle

Jeremy Asher explains that the issues involved in the recent debanking scandal are wide ranging and complicated, particularly in regard to the role of HM Treasury in combatting the problem

SJ Interview: Hannah Ambrose

Hannah Ambrose is an international arbitration partner at Herbert Smith Freehills. She talks to Solicitors Journal about her practice and the Law Commission's recent proposals to update the Arbitration Act 1996

Clearview AI Inc wins appeal against £7.5m Information Commissioner’s Office fine

James Castro-Edwards dissects the recent First-tier Tribunal’s ruling in Clearview AI Inc v The Information Commissioner [2023] UKFTT 819 (GRC) (17 October 2023)

The fallout from the Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling

Emma Carr and Christopher Richards discuss the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision for existing and future litigation funding agreements

Platonic surrogacy in light of the landmark High Court ruling: new family forms

Shaili Gohil-Desai and Natalie Sutherland dissect the landmark High Court ruling in X & Anor v B & Anor [2022] EWFC 129 and whether the two legal parent structure is fit for modern times