An HMCTS data licence permits computational analysis of published court and tribunal lists. This checklist covers which licence to apply for, what the application needs and what happens next.
CPR 31.16 sets four threshold conditions for pre-action disclosure, and satisfying every one of them opens the discretion rather than producing an order. What actually decides the discretion.
A message retention policy is defensible when it sets a period the firm can justify, carves out matter-related material before deletion, and can be suspended at platform level.
Small claims track costs are harder to recover after Orton v Barclays, in which the Court of Appeal held the CPR 27.14(2)(g) unreasonable behaviour exception must be read…
The HMCTS court data licence caps four high-risk uses, including anticipating legal decisions for a client, at a one-year experimental licence whose output cannot be released to customers…
Pre-action disclosure was refused in UBP v L Catterton even though every CPR 31.16 threshold condition was satisfied, because the requests made of the defendant were not narrow…
A rolling tracker on the Business and Property Division, which replaces the Chancery Division on 1 October 2026: which courts move, the instruments involved, and what firms should…
An explainer on the conduct of litigation as a reserved activity, what the Mazur judgments decided, and where the line falls between conducting litigation and assisting with it.
The Legal Services Board's final report finds regulators missed opportunities to resolve conflicting readings of the Legal Services Act before Mazur, but takes no enforcement action against any…