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Updated guidance supports bereaved families

The updated Estate Administration Banking Protocol aims to simplify processes for probate practitioners and banks during estate administration

Grandparents’ rights and royal rifts: a Californian perspective

From Windsor to California courts, the law prioritises children’s interests over family status or sentiment

Why legal AI still struggles with ‘why’ and ‘how’

As firms rely more heavily on AI tools, understanding their architectural limits is becoming a professional necessity

Phillips v Garraway: rent payable in services and the Housing Act 1988

Appeal concerning whether services without agreed monetary value constitute rent under Housing Act 1988.

AP Wireless II v EE Limited: tenancy at will versus periodic tenancy in telecoms sites

Holding over after lease expiry creates tenancy at will, not periodic tenancy, in telecoms dispute.

Choksi v Government of India: security for costs in international kidnapping claim

High Court grants £677,000 security despite serious allegations of state-sponsored kidnapping and torture.

SJ Interview: Joelle Grogan

Dr Joelle Grogan is a legal scholar specialising in the rule of law in times of crisis. She presents The Law Show on BBC Radio 4, and is Co-Academic Director of the Rule of Law Clinic at the CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest), and a Senior Research Fellow at the UCD Sutherland School of Law. Her work focuses on constitutional accountability, emergency powers, and legal misinformation. In this interview, she examines the pressures facing the rule of law in the UK, from executive power and court delays to media narratives, emergencies, and the impact of AI on legal practice.

AI in Law: responsibility never delegated

As AI becomes routine in legal practice, regulators and courts insist accountability stays firmly with the human professional

Kennedys strengthens disputes team with new hire

Kennedys enhances its commercial disputes offering by appointing Samson Spanier as partner in London

Mishcon de Reya expands UAE operations

International law firm Mishcon de Reya has bolstered its UAE presence with four senior partner appointments