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Coercive and controlling behaviour: progress or an opportunity missed?

Barbara Reeves and Helen Scambler from Mishcon de Reya reflect on the impact of the offence of coercive and controlling behaviour

Radical reform of the family courts: one form

Rachel Frost-Smith, Legal Director of the family team at Birketts, reflects on the proposal by Baroness Hale

Standish v Standish and the Supreme Court judgment

Joanna Newton, a Partner at Stowe Family Law, provides her thoughts on the wider implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling

Can artificial intelligence be trusted for legal research? Lessons from Ayinde

James Tumbridge, a Partner at Keystone Law, looks at the decision in Ayinde, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Haringey [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin) (6 June 2025) concerning the duties that lawyers owe to the court and the actual or suspected use of artificial intelligence by lawyers to generate legal documents or arguments without adequate checking of the outputs

George’s Law

Keeley Lengthorn, a Partner and the Head of Public Law at RWK Goodman, shares her personal journey to securing bereavement leave for parents who lose a pregnancy under 24 weeks

Modernising wills: revolutionary or evolutionary?

Gemma Shepherd, a Partner at Michelmores, discusses the Law Commission’s report

The proposed Hillsborough law

In this article, Dr Jeffrey Wale, Technical Director at the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL), looks at the proposal to introduce a statutory ‘duty of candour’ on public authorities

Restoring control over the immigration system: the government’s White Paper

Liz Barratt, Partner and Head of the Immigration Team at Bindmans, dissects the government’s White Paper on immigration