The money laundering regulations 2026 are now in force, narrowing enhanced due diligence and adding duties on pooled client accounts. The SRA consultation on notification closes on 17 August.
Junior lawyer roles are changing faster than headcount is. Around seven in ten law firm leaders expect significant change from AI, and the real risk is a thinner…
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…
The EHRC Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations came into force on 5 August 2026. It creates no obligations, but tribunals must take relevant parts…
Applications for the Advisory AI Growth Lab for legal services close on 27 September 2026. It gives coordinated access to four regulators, but confers no approval or exemption.
Disappearing messages on work devices survived judicial review in R (BB) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, but the policy was lawful only because of its export…
The practice direction changes in the 196th Update that went unreported, the CJC review of track limits, and its signal that professionally drafted documents will not need AI…
The five Supreme Court judgments of 27 July that have not been covered here, alongside conditional pension increases, partnership profits and the reach of an account of profits.