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
As ChatGPT celebrated its second anniversary on 30 November, it is worth looking back at the first generation of legal AI to realise how dramatically the legal tech
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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
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Lois Yvonne Bayliss Application 12496-2024 Admitted 2006 Hearing 2-4 September 2024 Reasons 9 October 2024 The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of
The low down Unlike crime, civil justice struggles to command the attention of government. Yet elements of both systems are in crisis. Many personal injury claimants, for example,
