Latest Legal News

Articles

Return of the MAC

Rajiv Naik and Annabel Bennett consider the Migration Advisory Committee independent review of tier 2 visas and what it may mean for UK business

Cash in the (police) attic

Ben Henriques considers the case law on the limits of the police powers of seizure and deprivation in criminal cases

Santa Claus is comin' to town

Richard Easton considers the circumstances in which the law recognises Santa as being 'real', and discusses the exploits of a criminal Father Christmas

A year of milestones

Junior commercial litigator Celina McGregor reflects on a busy 12 months for the profession

Will 2016 be the year 'of the lawyer-politician?

With debates over human rights, prison reform, and membership of the EU ?on the agenda, will legally trained politicians have an influence, asks Matthew Rogers 

Mid-size firms feel the squeeze

Kevin Poulter considers how firms - particularly those in the middle sector - have dealt with the evolution of the legal market in 2015

The good, the bad, and the ugly in 2015

John van der Luit-Drummond bids farewell to a year that has been fruitful, tumultuous, and unpredictable for the profession

Exes' finances falsely inflated from online MoJ bug

Urgent investigation launched into 'potentially catastrophic' error