Business Law International law: State immunity before the English courts
Since 2017, a series of judgments has seen multiple states fail in their assertions of adjudicative immunity before the English…
LegalTech: SaaSpocalypse Now | Law Gazette
On Friday 30 January, Anthropic announced 11 open-source Cowork plugins that ‘extend Claude’s agentic capabilities beyond general tasks into specialised…
Personal injury: Occupiers liability acts claims and new evidence
In Lillystone v Bradgate Education Partnership EWHC 3341 (KB), the claim arose from an incident that occurred in April 2019…
Criminal law: Exploited by AI – non-consensual deepfakes
The controversy surrounding Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok has sparked renewed debate about the legal challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI).…
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Divorce: Is the misconduct bar set too high?
Practitioners will be very familiar with the section 25 criteria in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and with section 25(2)(g).…
Competition law: All together now
The low down A decade after the Consumer Rights Act ushered in opt‑out collective actions for competition cases, hopes that…
Bright Horizons insight: Why flexibility alone is not easing pressure in the legal sector
For many law firms, improving retention and wellbeing has meant expanding flexible working. Flexibility remains important, but it is not…
Clifford Chance retains 76% of spring qualifying trainees
38 out of 50 Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance has unveiled its latest spring retention figures, with 38 out…
SQE confidentiality rules relaxed after students complain of overly broad policy
SRA makes changes The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has updated its candidate confidentiality policy for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE),…