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The report on improving family court services for children is an unsurprisingly depressing read for family law practitioners

Rachel Frost-Smith, Legal Director of the Family Team at Birketts, shares her experience of the impact of the delays in family court proceedings

Dead and…buried?

In this opinion piece, Roman Kubiak, Partner and Head of Private Wealth Disputes at Hugh James, discusses the Law Commission’s consultation paper on new funerary methods

How lawyers can translate climate goals into enforceable contracts

Natasha Morgan, Head of Legal Content at The Chancery Lane Project, shares her thoughts on the role of lawyers in implementing climate transition plans

The Law Commission’s consultation on private international law reforms: navigating digital assets in the modern legal landscape

Professor Suzanne Rab, a Barrister at Matrix Chambers, takes a closer look at the Law Commission’s proposals to modernise the rules governing cross-border disputes involving digital assets and electronic trade documents

The future of children in the family justice system: the NAO audit

Rachel Fisher, a Partner at Stowe Family Law, shares her thoughts on the latest National Audit Office report

Counting the cost of the UK tax system

Waqar Shah, a Partner at Kingsley Napley, takes a closer look at the recent report by the Committee of Public Accounts on the cost of the tax system

Businesses should prepare for new rules on fraud or they risk being caught out

As the 1 September deadline approaches, Rachel Warren, Legal Director at Charles Russell Speechlys, guides us through the examples set out in the government guidance related to the new failure prevent fraud offence

The definition of ‘sex’ under the Equality Act 2010: the Supreme Court’s guidance

Chris Hadrill from Redmans provides his analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16