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Employment Tribunal delays are becoming part of the dispute

Record Employment Tribunal caseloads and widening regional disparities mean delay is increasingly influencing litigation strategy and settlement decisions

China’s counter-sanctions regime reshapes lender risk

China’s expanding counter-sanctions framework is forcing international lenders to rethink compliance, contracts and dispute resolution

Agentic AI governance: Ten reasons legacy controls are no longer sufficient

Agentic AI exposes the limits of governance frameworks designed for passive tools, requiring organisations to control and continuously evidence the authority delegated to autonomous systems

Modern slavery reform: Why transparency alone cannot prevent forced labour

The Government’s proposed reforms to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act strengthen corporate reporting, but stopping forced labour will ultimately require a shift from...

Beyond Ayinde: testing AI legal research

Law firms need defensible methods for evaluating research systems

Burnham’s fiscal devolution must extend beyond England

Laura Hughes examines England’s new fiscal settlement and argues the devolved nations must not be left behind

When medical records do not tell everything

Courts place considerable weight on medical records, but recent authorities underline the importance of assessing them alongside other evidence

Tackling extra-familial exploitation in public law

An examination of recent national inquiries, legislative gaps, and why legal frameworks struggle with extra-familial harm