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‘J’ ACCUSE…!’

Dr Jason McCue, Senior Partner at McCue Jury & Partners and Committee Member of the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes, calls on governments, the international community and individuals to act against the atrocities of genocide, war crimes, aggression and crimes against humanity taking place around the world

SJ Interview: Mark Sansom

The Solicitors Journal speaks to Mark Sansom, London and Dublin Managing Partner at Freshfields.

From hours to minutes: agentic AI frees solicitors for high-value legal work

Venture back a mere two years in time and the concept of injecting AI into your legal workflow would have sounded preposterous. Now, a legal workflow managed entirely by humans seems more irresponsible

Fawkes in the Road - Choosing a Future Direction for Carbon Capture 

Consulting Engineer Professor Robert Jackson, General Practitioner Dr Frederick Newton and Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin discuss the environmental, health and political challenges posed by carbon capture and storage. Together with sulphur and saltpetre, carbon is one of the principal constituents of gunpowder, and this article will expose and examine the explosive implications if society fails to arrest harmful emissions from waste incineration facilities. 

VAT on independent school fees: a legal analysis of the judicial review claim R (ALR and others) v Chancellor of the Exchequer

Robert Lewis, Alexandra Agnew, Grace Houghton and Elizabeth Fitton from Mishcon de Reya dissect the ruling and its wider implications

Navigating the crosscurrents: learning points from the Independent Water Commission’s interim report

Nicola Williams, a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland, explains what the interim report could mean for the future of the water sector and the legal professionals working within it

Coercive and controlling behaviour: progress or an opportunity missed?

Barbara Reeves and Helen Scambler from Mishcon de Reya reflect on the impact of the offence of coercive and controlling behaviour

Can artificial intelligence be trusted for legal research? Lessons from Ayinde

James Tumbridge, a Partner at Keystone Law, looks at the decision in Ayinde, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Haringey [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin) (6 June 2025) concerning the duties that lawyers owe to the court and the actual or suspected use of artificial intelligence by lawyers to generate legal documents or arguments without adequate checking of the outputs