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Wealth management company launches niche firm

Wealth management company, Wills & Trusts, launches niche law firm specialising in estate management

Survey hints at post-pandemic homeworking culture

More than three in five (62%) employees would be happy to remain working from home after the pandemic, according to new research 

Costs comeback

Kerry Underwood considers how the costs landscape appears set to change in the coming months

Law leaders refuse to support 'any steps to remove the right to jury trials'

The leaders of the solicitors' and barristers' professions have stated they will not support "any steps to remove the right to jury trials"

MoJ consultation on extending judicial power to depart from EU law

Only the most senior British courts should be given powers to depart from retained EU case law from 31 December, says a government consultation 

Supreme Court ruling will 'encourage divorce tourism'

A dissenting Supreme Court judge has criticised a ruling for giving wives “untrammelled licence” to go forum-shopping

Death of the commute

Richard Beresford and Warren Wooldridge uncover the new normal of agile working

Calls for ADR to beat impending 'tsunami' of civil claims

A backlog of civil cases, ineffective IT and covid-19-related claims will trigger a “tsunami” of litigation in the civil justice system, a report warns