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A dated tracker of the SRA client money reform programme: the two approved rule changes awaiting commencement, the…
Who can be a COLP or COFA once the approved SRA rules take effect, how the £600,000 and…
The Law Commission is examining a consumer class actions regime for England and Wales. This tracker records milestones,…
How the State Immunity Act 1978 works, the exceptions litigators actually use, and where section 5 now sits…
What SEPs and FRAND commitments are, how English courts set global licence rates, and where jurisdiction now stands…
A practical guide to serving out of the jurisdiction: the PD 6B gateways, merits and forum requirements, a…
How the Part-Time Workers Regulations 2000 work after Augustine v Data Cars [2026] UKSC 30: the effective cause…
A checklist for the solvent party when a litigant goes bankrupt: section 306 vesting, sufficient interest after CYK…
An explainer on warehousing claims: Grovit v Doctor, the two-stage Asturion approach, what CYK v Davis adds on…
An explainer on protected philosophical beliefs under section 10 of the Equality Act: the Grainger criteria, Forstater, the…
Before client material touches an AI tool, firms need to know where the data goes. A checklist built…
The iniquity exception prevents privilege attaching to communications furthering fraud or underhand conduct. Bourlakova and Pliego now mark…
Post-completion registration can take months. A guide to realistic timescales, requisitions, HM Land Registry's secure links change, honest…
Gateway 2 approvals reached 82% in the 12 weeks to 1 August 2026, with new build medians at…
A firm-wide risk assessment is the document the SRA asks for first on inspection, and regulation 18(2)(a) requires…
Eight approved regulators authorise legal services in England and Wales under the Legal Services Act 2007, each with…
The Sentencing Act progression model comes into force on 1 October 2026, changing automatic release points for standard…
Unfair prejudice under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 lets a member petition where company affairs are…
CPR 27.14(2)(g) allows a costs order on the small claims track for unreasonable behaviour. After Orton v Barclays…
Advising on single-sex services changed when the EHRC Code came into force. The Code creates no obligations, so…
An HMCTS data licence permits computational analysis of published court and tribunal lists. This checklist covers which licence…
CPR 31.16 sets four threshold conditions for pre-action disclosure, and satisfying every one of them opens the discretion…
A message retention policy is defensible when it sets a period the firm can justify, carves out matter-related…
A dated tracker of weddings law reform from the Law Commission project in 2019 to the Tying the…
The Supreme Court overruled the Cheshire West acid test on 2 June 2026. This explainer sets out the…
A practitioner guide to probate in 2026: the £526 fee from 13 July, current HMCTS timescales, why applications…
A step-by-step checklist for instructing an expert in children proceedings under rule 25.5A: confirming the issue date, establishing…
How Standish and Culligan work together on illiquid assets: what is available for sharing, and how Wells sharing…
Flexible working is a day-one right to request, not to receive. The guide covers what a firm must…
A rolling tracker on the Business and Property Division, which replaces the Chancery Division on 1 October 2026:…
A checklist for landlords, managing agents and conveyancers on the new service charge demand form, the prescribed annual…
A guide to first-tier complaints: the eight-week rule, what the SRA has already agreed to change, what it…
An explainer on the conduct of litigation as a reserved activity, what the Mazur judgments decided, and where…
An explainer on enforcing a foreign judgment in England and Wales: the statutory registration regimes, the Hague Conventions,…
An explainer on the home buying and selling reform roadmap. What goes in an upfront information pack, whether…
A checklist covering accountants' report duties and exemptions, the new declaration, the COLP and COFA restriction, and the…
A step-by-step checklist on Companies House identity verification. Who must verify, the confirmation statement trigger, the November long…
A dated tracker of every Employment Rights Act commencement stage. It separates measures already in force from confirmed…
The SRA's first dedicated AI warning notice brings supervisors, COLPs and firm governance into scope, and treats client material entered into public AI tools as a permanent risk to privilege.
The Legal Services Board approved the SRA's COLP and COFA separation rules on 31 July 2026, together with annual accountants' reports for every firm that…
The SDT has suspended a solicitor for six months after she admitted failing to act in a Court of Protection client's best interests across a…
Manifest incompetence needs systemic or fundamental failure, not one badly handled file. Two Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal outcomes mark out where poor service ends and where…
The SRA sectoral risk assessment was substantially rewritten on 6 August 2026, adding three emerging risks firms must take into account under regulation 18(2)(a) when…
A single legal regulator should replace the eight approved regulators in England and Wales, according to a position paper from the Legal Services Consumer Panel…
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…
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…
The ICO executed search warrants at five companies suspected of sending 170 million motor finance claims texts, and warned law firms instigating direct marketing to…
The SRA has referred two solicitors to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over conduct after the main events of the Horizon scandal. The allegations are unproven…