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I like to get my crystal ball out each year and look at what may be the key trends in commercial litigation. For 2022, insolvency, professional negligence, media, financial mis-selling and Covid look key.

Despite the end of Covid restrictions, for those working in the claims sector, it’s not quite time to celebrate just yet. The market has flatlined and it’s unclear how long it might take to recover.

International arbitration centres, and law firms handling arbitration cases directly, have played a key role in helping the business world adjust to the fallout of the pandemic.

Research suggests rising solicitors’ insurance premiums this April could prove to be a fatal blow for some beleaguered small and medium-sized practices.

What was the former president of the Supreme Court doing in endorsing a Post Office strategy that “never had any substance”? He might now be asking himself a similar question.

Smart contracts have huge potential in revolutionising entire industries. But many technological and legal hurdles to implementing operational smart contracts remain.

Holt is a welcome step in the right direction and might go some way towards finally dragging pre-action conduct in credit hire claims into the post-CPR era.

A continuous improvement mindset is a business culture built on the aim of implementing ongoing improvements to all elements of the business.

Accessibility is multi-faceted and means different things to different disabled people – from how someone enters and navigates a building, through to using accessible language to help inclusivity.

A number of law firms now renew their professional indemnity insurance on 1 April. It also provides an indicator as to what to expect for firms renewing six months later.