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Retired judge becomes chair of criminal legal aid board

Deborah Taylor will chair the Criminal Legal Aid Advisory Board for 18 months from July 2023

CMA finds car parts merger could reduce competition

The owners of car parts businesses Euro Car Parts and GSF Car parts have offered a divestment plan to allay competition concerns

Law firms increasingly reliant on tech specialists

Forty-three of the top 50 UK law firms have a chief technology officer, or a C-suite-level tech specialists, according to a recent survey

Law Society: Legal framework for NDAs must be improved

Changes should be made to the legal framework for non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to prevent them from being used to hide matters of public interest, the Law...

Law Society: 7 in 10 firms lack cyber insurance

New research published by the Law Society of England and Wales shows that 70 per cent of law firms have not purchased cyber insurance. 

Court of Appeal grants Bitcoin blockchain IP appeal

The court concurred with the claimants that there is a real prospect of successfully establishing that the Bitcoin File Format is fixed

Surrogacy law proposals: pros and cons

Linzi Bull and Sarah Everington examine the Law Commission's proposed reforms to surrogacy law in the UK

Your business benefits from embracing whistleblowers

Jan Stappers looks at how robust compliance programmes can improve both a company's reputation and its bottom line