All Features articles

  • Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon’s keynote speech
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    Eastern promise: GenAI hits Singapore

    3 October 2025

    International firms, AI pioneers and nine UK lawtechs assembled at TechLaw.Fest to hear about the profound changes wrought on the profession.

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    Chain reaction

    3 October 2025

    One in three conveyancers has said they plan to quit this troubled practice area. Would new technology and reform of the legal process convince them to stay? Maria Shahid reports

  • Stop the Boats protest
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    Fear and posing

    26 September 2025

    Immigration and asylum solicitors are working in their own ‘hostile environment’. Mainstream politicians should know better than to echo dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric.

  • SEND protest
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    Rival lobbies clash on SEND rights

    2025-09-26T05:51:00Z

    Months of meetings and reports on SEN and disabilities have done little to reassure affected families that children’s rights will not be diluted.

  • Birmingham Council
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    Local heroes

    19 September 2025

    The pressures on local government lawyers are unprecedented. Their response has been to ramp up their building networks and skill sets, and support reorganisation.

  • Rehabilitation
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    Taking the moral high ground

    19 September 2025

    Law firm Fletchers Group is seeking to enhance the image of the much-maligned claimant PI sector. The firm highlights the socio-economic impact of its work, saving the government millions while securing access to justice.

  • Flag patchwork
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    Disputes and the EU: Patching it up

    12 September 2025

    Lawyers have profited from assisting clients who need Brexit ‘workarounds’, especially when it comes to disputes. But, as Katharine Freeland reports, the professional inconvenience for lawyers is taking its toll.

  • Man in a boat
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    Life of PII

    5 September 2025

    Negligence claims are rising, but most firms are currently enjoying favourable indemnity premiums in what is a notoriously volatile insurance market. Maria Shahid finds out why – and how long such benign conditions are expected to last. 

  • Templegarden
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    One Bar, bar none?

    8 August 2025

    Barristers are busier than ever, reports Catherine Baksi. But with huge disparities in the rewards on offer and practitioners reporting increasingly divergent experiences, the profession is polarising.

  • Family illustration
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    Finding the middle way

    2025-08-01T08:16:00Z

    Although promoting alternative dispute resolution is not a new development in family court hearings, it was given added impetus in April last year.

  • Duty solicitors are a staple of every modern detective drama. But with numbers plummeting, their attendance is becoming less dependable in real‑life police stations
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    Thin blue line

    25 July 2025

    Duty solicitors are a staple of every modern detective drama. But with numbers plummeting, their attendance is becoming less dependable in real‑life police stations. Catherine Baksi reports.

  • AI robot desk
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    Agentic AI: team player

    25 July 2025

    Legal AI has progressed to an essential productivity tool that can take on specific roles within a legal team – should human lawyers be worried?

  • Mental health illustration
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    Mental health and the law: Coping strategies

    2025-07-21T13:46:00Z

    Mental health statistics show a deepening crisis in our workplaces, manifested in employment claims. Can existing laws keep up? And what of the legal profession’s own record? Catherine Baksi reports. 

  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves And deputy prime minister Angela Rayner at a housing development project in Stoke-on-Trent
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    Best laid plans

    11 July 2025

    The prime minister says the country needs to ‘build, baby, build’ to alleviate the housing crisis. But as planning lawyers tell Maria Shahid, there are daunting obstacles standing in the way of his ambitious targets. 

  • Chess crown merger
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    Law firm M&As: Getting together

    2025-07-08T13:43:00Z

    Mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the legal sector, particularly in the mid-market. Joanna Goodman finds out why – and how best to go about getting into bed with another firm.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
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    SEND reform, legal rights and Whitehall's weasel words

    2025-07-07T09:20:00Z

    The ‘parents of disabled children’ club was one I didn’t want to join, and yet was shattered to leave with the death of my daughter in February. Re-engaging with these issues at this time, I find extremely difficult. 

  • Sarah Sackman: ‘You do not have to just win the legal argument, you have to win the political one'
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    Sarah Sackman KC MP: 'Access to justice is a form of empowerment'

    2025-07-01T09:53:00Z

    With Sir Brian Leveson’s review of the Crown courts imminent, justice minister Sarah Sackman proposes a ‘bold modernisation initiative’ to reduce the backlog in cases. And in the civil sphere, she tells Michael Cross that technology can ‘democratise access to justice’.

  • LawSoc books
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    Centuries of progress

    27 June 2025

    To mark its 200th anniversary, Eduardo Reyes looks at the intertwined history of the Law Society and its Chancery Lane headquarters.

  • Pouria Zeraati
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    Sum of our fears

    2025-06-24T13:34:00Z

    Within our laws, terrorism attracts its own legal exceptionalism – its deeds and the state’s responses are in a legal class apart. But as our laws develop, do they reflect both the correct threats and our democratic values? Katharine Freeland reports. 

  • London Tech Week showcased the UK’s AI acumen, backed by £1bn of government funding. But digital infrastructure needs critical attention
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    UK primed for 'AI take-off'

    13 June 2025

    London Tech Week showcased the UK’s AI acumen, backed by £1bn of government funding. But digital infrastructure needs critical attention.