‘Creation of the Business and Property Division (BPD) next month will provide a larger pool of judges and “opportunities to look at how we do things”, its first president has said.’
Legal Futures, 18th September 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A judge has warned litigants in person (LiPs) that, like lawyers, they need to take personal responsibility for the use of AI in drafting court documents.’
Legal Futures, 18th September 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A celebrity florist has succeeded in a trade mark infringement claim against a rival which took ‘unfair advantage’ of her company Flowerbx’s reputation by using similar names.’
Law Society Gazette, 16th September 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A baby boy who was found with twine looped and knotted round his neck and wrapped in a 116-year-old newspaper was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded.’
The Guardian, 17th September 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The founder of Addison Lee owes £20.5m in tax after a tribunal dismissed a claim that he should be treated as a nom-dom despite living in the UK since childhood.’
The Guardian, 17th September 2026
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to spraying abusive graffiti on mosques in east London, in a case linked to the Russian state network behind arson attacks against the former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.’
BBC News, 17th September 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for 14 years for raping two teenage girls after encouraging them to drink alcohol at his flat.’
BBC News, 17th September 2026
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court
Forthwell Ltd v Pontegadea UK Ltd [2026] UKSC 33 (17 September 2026)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Guerrero v Secretary of State for Home Department [2026] EWCA Civ 953 (16 September 2026)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mushrafi, R. v [2026] EWCA Crim 1200 (17 September 2026)
Hodge & Ors v R [2026] EWCA Crim 1181 (16 September 2026)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Niprose Investments Ltd v Vincents Solicitors Ltd [2026] EWHC 2320 (Ch) (16 September 2026)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Intralinks Inc v Nexans SA [2026] EWHC 2355 (Comm) (17 September 2026)
High Court (Family Division)
SH v KH [2026] EWHC 2391 (Fam) (17 September 2026)
High Court (King’s Bench Division)
KDP & Anor v TXL & Ors [2026] EWHC 2365 (KB) (16 September 2026)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘I wanted to speak to the Association about the new Division, for what I hope are fairly obvious reasons. The changes relate directly to your work and your clients will be just as important users of the Rolls Building in future as they are today. I mention the Rolls Building because this event is happening here in London. But I will say something about the Business and Property Courts outside London as well.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 16th September 2026
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against a special guardianship order, ruling that the judge should have determined whether the threshold criteria were established, and should have considered whether the order was “necessary and proportionate”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th September 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The London Borough of Hounslow’s planning committee proceeded on a false premise because an officers’ report was misleading, the High Court has found.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th September 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) has allowed an appeal against the dismissal of an application for judicial review of London Borough of Haringey’s assessment of a young man’s social care needs under the Care Act 2014.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th September 2026
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘We are back from our summer break with a new episode of the Talking Pensions podcast, in which Paul talks to Mark Kowalik about his long career as a pensions lawyer at CMS. They discuss the evolution of pensions law and regulation since the 1980s and look forward to future developments in the field.’
Pensions Barrister, 17th September 2026
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘A recent ruling by the Upper Tribunal affirms the UK financial services industry’s zero-tolerance approach to non-financial misconduct, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 16th September 2026
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Magistrates’ courts already deal with 92% of all cases before the criminal courts. The increase in sentencing powers proposed in the Courts and Tribunals Bill will push that figure even higher. With this in mind, the Gazette wanted to find out more about the magistracy and, in a first, according to the Magistrates’ Association, we were invited to shadow two magistrates over several days and interview the presiding justices.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th September 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘More judges have been sanctioned over delays to their issue of judgments and other decisions.’
Law Society Gazette, 16th September 2026
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The government cannot allow the emergence of a two-tier system where large City law firms are at the cutting edge of AI use while the courts are “stuck in the analogue age”, justice minister Sarah Sackman said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 16th September 2026
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘MacDonald J. Refusal of relief from sanctions for deliberately failing to comply with length of evidence in H’s application to vary the maintenance he had agreed to pay W. H’s s 37 MCA injunction application also failed.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 15th September 2026
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers.’
Counsel, 14th September 2026
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘The Sir Mota Singh Moot has returned, offering an impressive glimpse of a more representative Bar. If this is what the future looks like, why does the present still lag so far behind? ask Baldip Singh and Prof Jo Delahunty KC.’
Counsel, 14th September 2026
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
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