The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a significant milestone, but it still needs to pass several stages before becoming law. The next stage involves a
The recent WWF report, What’s in Store for the Planet 2024, assesses progress towards meeting deforestation commitments, highlighting insufficient action by UK supermarket chains on deforestation and ESG-related
For 50 years the Law Society Charity has supported an increasing number of charities in the legal sector. Some of the major charities are well known, such as
Private client practitioners will have noted the recent broadcast on BBC Radio 4 about acting as a professional attorney by partners in solicitors’ firms. It is a good
On 11 November 2024, Bates Wells was pleased to host an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association’s (PNLA) formation. In that time,
The low down Calls to quit the European Convention on Human Rights grew louder when the ultimate arbiter of those rights, the European Court of Human Rights, prevented
Housing and planning minister Matthew Pennycook recently announced a series of reforms that could herald the end of the ‘feudal’ leasehold system in England and Wales. The government