Wim Dejonghe, former global senior partner of Allen & Overy, has teamed up with the technology entrepreneurs behind Belgium HR-tech scaleup Mbrella and a former Freshfields lawyer to co-found Falcon, an AI-native law firm built around AI and flat-fee pricing
A placard and a statute: observing the International Day of Non-Violence
2 October 2026: International Day of Non-Violence
A retired social worker stands outside a courthouse holding a handwritten sign. Elsewhere, 13 people block the entrance to a federal building and wait to be cited. Neither raises a hand against anyone.
BoE publishes speech on the legal and commercial frontier of digital assets
On 1 October 2026, Sasha Mills, Executive Director of Financial Market Infrastructure at the Bank of England (BoE), gave a speech setting out ways the BoE intends to continue to support responsible innovation.
Mills set out that the BoE considers
Christopher Collins Comments on Compliance Risks for Crypto Firms Seeking FCA Authorization
Financial Markets and Funds Partner Christopher Collins spoke with Law360 UK about the challenges crypto businesses face in seeking authorization under the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new cryptoasset regime. The article reports that criminals using artificial intelligence (AI) could break
Birss eyes page limit for litigants in person to state their case
Birss: You don’t have to trust AI
A strict page limit on outlining the case would help judges struggling to cope with litigants in person (LiPs) using AI to draft their claims, the incoming Master of the Rolls has suggested.Sir
‘Hero’ solicitor to campaign on for paid miscarriage leave
Lengthorn: Overwhelming week
A solicitor who campaigned successfully for couples who experience a miscarriage to receive two weeks of unpaid leave has said she will continue until it becomes paid.Keeley Lengthorn, a partner at RWK Goodman in London, said she
LSB ditches plan to up pressure on regulators over diversity
Shah: Leaving diversity for others to lead
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has unexpectedly ditched plans that would have increased pressure on regulators to improve diversity in the profession.Last year it said the profession had failed to make “significant progress
Murder, forfeiture and the right to arrange the funeral
Bains v Arsalan & Anor (Funeral Arrangements) [2026] EWHC 1597 (Fam), Peel J 23 June 2026. Judgment here
What happens when the person ordinarily entitled to arrange a child’s funeral is the person convicted of murdering her?
That was the
Back with a Bano
R (on the application of Bano) v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2026] UKSC22
Bano has its origins in the acceptance of a housing duty on 23 February 2017, concluding just over 9 years later in the supreme court. Central
Tropical Censorship (and why repeal of the Censorship of Publications Acts is – sadly – still not imminent).
In an article in the Irish Times last week, Christopher Burke describes a journey from Galway, where he grew up and where he had just buried his brother, to Bogotá, Colombia, where he had made his home in 2010:I recently