Is the emerging hydrogen sector the key to achieving net zero?

The nominees for the 10th annual Student Law Society (SLS) Awards have been revealed.

Reinsurance: who insures the insurers?

What forms the basis of UK energy policy?

Carl Rix is a tenant at Old Square Chambers. He gives advice to aspiring barristers, discusses the importance of trusting your own judgement and explains how the debating society at Swansea University led him to the Bar. 

The Bar Standards Board has published a report on how to improve race equality at the Bar. The report was based on an event the BSB held last month, entitled “Heads Above the Parapet: How can we improve Race Equality at the Bar?”

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives recently held its annual graduation ceremony, with new CILEx members celebrating their new status as qualified lawyers.

How important is accurate registering of members in company law?

Private equity: what’s next for the tech sector?

Alice Kuzmenko is a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row. In this Meet the Lawyer she discusses what attracted her to the barrister route, her day-to-day responsibilites and what she enjoys most about her career in law.

Several law firms, including Clifford Chance and Macfarlanes LLP, have launched a leadership-led, cross-firm collective developed to improve the representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups in the UK legal profession. 

Following a successful launch in 2016, the mentoring scheme run jointly by Browne Jacobson and the law school at Manchester Metropolitan University has been expanded in 2017 to take on a total of 17 undergrad law students.

The limited information published about the recent Solicitors Qualifying Exam stage one pilot means that it is “impossible” to tell whether the new ‘super exam’ will work as intended, the Association of Law Teachers has warned.

Law firms in England and Wales saw sector-wide growth in 2025, with average annual earnings growing by 11.2% last year, according to the Law Society of England and Wales’ 2026 annual Financial Benchmarking survey. 

Junior barristers are losing out on work thanks to the increasingly widespread tendency among solicitors to pay referral fees to each other and growing number of solicitor advocates, the Bar Council has said.

In the recently released episode of The LawCareers.Net Podcast, LCN teams up with The University of Law to discuss the postgraduate Legal Practice Course.

A freedom of information request made to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) has revealed that twice as many women as men are applying to study law in the UK.