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This article follows Spy games in the Family Court: The rise of covert recordings, which explored the covert recording of children in family proceedings.
AI chatbots and large language models (LLMs) are now routinely used to draft, summarise and analyse documents by clients and lawyers. But their convenience comes with real privilege risks.
A claimant issues a claim at the end of the limitation period, only to realise after limitation has expired that it has pursued the wrong party. In what circumstances will the court permit the claimant to substitute the correct defendant party for the wrongly named one?
The Valuation Tribunal for England has issued a significant decision for the museum sector, ruling that the Natural History Museum (NHM) should have a nominal rateable value of £1 in the 2017 Rating List, effective from 1 April 2017.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have become a focal point of regulatory, environmental, and public concern across the UK. Recent developments, including the investigation into potential PFAS contamination at Thornton‑Cleveleys, Lancashire, highlight the scale and complexity of the challenge. So widespread has been the use of PFAS in industry, that estimates suggest there could be between 2,900 and 10,200 high risk PFAS sites in the UK.
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Townsend v Epsom and St Helier provides that any decision about the medical treatment of a mentally incapacitated adult, including the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, must be taken in the patient’s best interests – and so clinicians are not allowed to make a unilateral decision to refuse to provide treatment without going to Court if there is a dispute. It is then for the Court, not the clinicians to determine best interests.
This briefing considers the insurance consequences of the Iran war across key classes of business, including property, marine, aviation, political violence, political risk/trade credit and travel insurance, with a particular focus on the coverage disputes that are likely to arise as claims develop.
Until recently, child claimants with a reduced life expectancy had been prevented from recovering pecuniary damages for lost years as set out in Croke v Wiseman (1982). The Supreme Court case of CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2026) has overruled this approach.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today launched its market study into private dentistry in the UK, including preventative, clinically necessary and cosmetic dental treatments. The study will review whether this market is working well for consumers.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced a formal investigation into Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Marriott, and CoStar, the owner of the hotel data analytics tool STR. The CMA is examining whether these businesses shared competitively sensitive information through STR and potentially facilitated coordination between rival hotel operators.