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Black history month: First-class citizens
The Race Relations Act 1965 ducked key issues but stands as a seismic legislative moment, paving the way for the more comprehensive laws that followed. On its diamond anniversary, Eduardo Reyes considers the act’s legacy.
Landmark ruling on government’s 'VIP lanes'
Civil litigation.
Why we must protect collective actions
Competition law.
Survivors deserve better from CICA
Abuse law.
Kite shot down
When the Employment Rights Bill’s champion Angela Rayner quit, speculation grew that the government would dilute the legislation.
SSB scandal is worse than Axiom Ince - this time there’s no excuse
A culture of complacency and arrogance has created this self-inflicted mess.
Solicitors should not fear citizen-facing lawtech tools
Only technology can fill the need for affordable legal assistance.
Post-Mazur, we should think big
Welcoming CILEX members into the solicitors’ profession would resolve two problems that confront us.
China 'spy' prosecution: perplexing questions
Crown Prosecution Service statement on the abandoned case has baffled most legal observers.
News focus
In depth: What the latest homebuying overhaul could mean for conveyancers
Labour’s plans to ‘shake up the homebuying system’ will sound wearily familiar to overloaded conveyancers, who highlighted several key issues that the government’s consultation fails to address.
Travel
Make your next London work trip more than just work
With a touch of planning, even the briefest visit can deliver cultural, culinary, energising and restorative moments that make the journey feel like a welcome pause, not just another task.
When Coke took on the King
James E Hurford reviews 'The Reformation of the Constitution: Law, Culture and Conflict in Jacobean England'.
Riveting whodunnit set in the Swinging Sixties
David Pickup reviews 'The Fall Guy: Rock ‘n’ roll murder in 1960s London'.
When diseases cross borders
James E Hurford reviews 'Global Pandemics and International Law: An Analysis in the Age of Covid-19'.
Bringing doctrinal debates alive
Comparative Contract Law: Exercises in Comparative Methodology (4th edition)
The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg
While the world’s greatest journalists and writers covered the Nuremberg trial of Nazi leaders in 1945-6, another story was unfolding in the nearby town of Stein.