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The King has granted a posthumous conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the UK, recognising historic injustice and domestic abuse.

Daniel Naftalin has taken up his role as Mishcon de Reya’s new Managing Partner. Daniel was elected by partners earlier this year and takes over today from outgoing Managing Partner James Libson following a transition period.

Partner and the Head of Technology Group Ashley Williams was quoted in the Financial Times' 'The Big Read' this weekend. Speaking on the risks of AI usage in writing and commercial work.

Clare Radcliffe, Partner in the Family team, has commented in The i Paper, the Law Society Gazette and the Mail on Sunday on proposed reforms to the financial rights of cohabiting couples.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by GLO follower claimants who sought to have their claims decided in line with a favourable test case decision, despite the legal basis for that decision having since been shown to be wrong.

The first nationally representative UK study of its kind, conducted by the University of West London, found that 59.1 per cent of separated or divorced parents surveyed reported experiencing alienating behaviour from a former partner - nearly six in ten.

Despite 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act 1970 coming into force, the gender pay gap remains stubbornly high. Office for National Statistics figures for April 2025 put the headline gap at 12.8%.

Ali Campbell, Associate at Mishcon de Reya, has commented for People Management on whether employers should deal with competing bank holiday annual leave requests on a first come, first served basis.

In Accord Healthcare Ltd v Novartis AG, the Patents Court rejected validity challenges to Novartis' patent and supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan), a blockbuster heart failure treatment.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court finding that publicly available information, which had been packaged together into an investment strategy, was protected by the law of confidence. The information did not lose that confidence by virtue of being disclosed to over 200 potential investors.  What mattered was that the information had not been made generally available to the public, rather than the number of people to whom it had been passed.