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21 Jul 2023

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.

21 Jul 2023

Surrogacy law proposals: pros and cons

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

21 Jul 2023

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

20 Jul 2023

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.

20 Jul 2023

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.

20 Jul 2023

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.

20 Jul 2023

Ten years of legal freelancing – are we still ‘new’ law?

Matthew Kay and Geraldine Kelm look at the growth of legal freelancing over the past decade.

20 Jul 2023

Law Commission review: the financial consequences of divorce

The current law is sufficiently certain for couples who can afford legal representation, but the situation is unclear for the silent majority of couples who cannot, writes Jennifer Dickson.