Cases concerning legal professional privilege are going to the highest courts in Europe and the US respectively.

Early release is the latest stop-gap solution to solve overcrowding in prisons, but a media storm forced Andy Burnham to reconsider. Amid pledges to build more space, Sian Harrison hears calls for ...

A UK law firm is offering arbitration as the default option for settling disputes between parents ‘from the outset, rather than only after other routes have been exhausted’. Stewarts has seen a ...

Robin Dunne and Priya Gopal of Gatehouse Chambers, who represented the claimant in the Court of Appeal after being instructed ...

A disgruntled former client who posted a defamatory Google review about a solicitor has been ordered to pay £9,500 in damages. Deputy Master Marzec, sitting in the High Court in Conroy v Stojek, said ...

Family lawyers offer their take - and warnings - about the average length of a marriage reaching a six-decade high.

The Ministry of Justice has launched a recruitment exercise for the next phase of its LawtechUK programme to nurture innovation in legal services. A new advisory board and ambassador network is to be ...

Annual NatWest bellwether also finds that the post-Covid trading boom has stalled, which has squeezed profits.

A strike by researchers from law firm directory Legal 500 is set to continue into a third week, with no resolution to the pay dispute in sight. Around 60 staff who carry out interviews with law firms ...

A former paralegal has been barred from the legal profession after his conviction for a campaign of harassment against his ex-partner. Richard Melfi-Wroe, formerly with national firm Keoghs, was ...

Refusing to tell a client what commissions you were paid may be ‘unwise’, but the court cannot enforce disclosure through a Solicitors Act costs assessment, a new ruling has established. The Court of ...

The value of legal services exports from the UK has grown by more than 60% in five years. Research compiled by the Law Society found that exports of legal services rose to almost £11bn in 2025, giving ...