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Law Society: Legal framework for NDAs must be improved

Changes should be made to the legal framework for non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to prevent them from being used to hide matters of public interest, the Law Society of England and Wales says

Law Society: 7 in 10 firms lack cyber insurance

New research published by the Law Society of England and Wales shows that 70 per cent of law firms have not purchased cyber insurance. 

Court of Appeal grants Bitcoin blockchain IP appeal

The court concurred with the claimants that there is a real prospect of successfully establishing that the Bitcoin File Format is fixed

Surrogacy law proposals: pros and cons

Linzi Bull and Sarah Everington examine the Law Commission's proposed reforms to surrogacy law in the UK

Your business benefits from embracing whistleblowers

Jan Stappers looks at how robust compliance programmes can improve both a company's reputation and its bottom line

Family mediation: should it be voluntary or not?

Mediation has no single definition, but most would agree that mediation is voluntary All that could change, however, if the government gets its way, says Tony Roe.

Modernisation, social mobility and civil justice

Tony Guise outlines comments made by Sir Geoffrey Vos at his first appearance before the Justice Select Committee in June

Legal freelancing and ALSPs: what’s next?

Matthew Kay and Geraldine Kelm examine the past decade for alternative legal solutions providers and considers what the next 10 years will look like