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Hanson outlined in full the ongoing programme of work that is under way, as ministers prepare for reform, during his keynote address to the Global Anti-Scams Alliance summit, staged in London on 26 March 2025 and 27 March 2025, according to the Home Office. The programme features detailed plans for partnering with industry and cross-border collaboration, as well as confronting technology-enabled fraud. 'Fraud is an ever more international business, driven by some of the most appalling criminal gangs operating in the world today', Hanson said in a statement...

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DIFC Courts and Smart Dubai The Dubai International Financial Centre Courts (DIFC Courts) are partnering with the government‑backed Smart Dubai initiative to examine how blockchain can be used to authenticate court judgments for the purpose of cross‑border enforcement. According to the DIFC Courts and Smart Dubai, the purpose of their joint task force is to deliver a ‘blockchain‑powered future for the judiciary’ that will streamline the judicial process by making legal tasks more efficient. Amna Al Owais, chief executive and registrar of the DIFC Courts, said in the statement: ‘This task force is in line with our’...

Managing the human resources in your legal team Overseeing the people element of your legal team is not a task to hand over to HR alone. It is central to legal operations. Your operational remit is to deliver the best outcomes at the lowest viable cost. From a human resources viewpoint, this is achieved by ensuring each matter is handled by the right lawyer—inside or outside the business—at the right time. To make this happen, you must align all resources to minimise legal and compliance risks by: reorganising your in-house team, engaging lawyers with specific expertise and appointing law firms and/or consultants, while carefully monitoring expenditure. If you are worried that you lack the knowledge, inclination or experience to manage people, it is strongly advised that you develop the required capabilities, as this will pay dividends in how your team provides legal services to your organisation. Some individuals are natural ‘people people’, but the core skills needed to get the best from your team can be learnt through training....

JCT CE Launched in March 2007, the (JCT CE) stemmed directly from JCT’s prior partnership with ‘Be’ (a merger of Reading Construction Forum and the Design & Build Forum) that produced its inaugural partnering form, the Be Collaborative Agreement. Sustaining that alliance, and acknowledging the continuing need for agreements embodying the partnering ethos and practice, led to the creation of the together with the companion JCT Constructing Excellence Project Team Agreement (JCT CE/P). The most recent editions of JCT CE and JCT CE/P were released in October 2024 within the JCT 2024 suite of contracts, so they are commonly referred to as 2024 and JCT Constructing Excellence Project Team Agreement 2024 respectively. For an overview of the amendments made in the 2024 versions compared with the earlier 2016 editions, see News Analysis: The 2024—what’s changed? JCT CE adopts a partnering approach and is therefore principally targeted at public sector clients and local authorities in particular, though it is also suitable for private sector use where parties...

Partnering The idea of partnering arose in response to the criticisms directed at relationships in the construction sector by the Latham and Egan reports during the 1990s. Partnering highlights collaborative ways of working and continual improvement through performance measurement and long-term relationships, seeking to prevent many of the issues that stem from ‘traditional’ building contracts which, in certain respects, seem to expect failure rather than encourage success and advancement. A standard-form construction contract embodies many of the partnering principles championed by Latham. See Practice Note: Partnering. It was commissioned by the Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) and prepared by Trowers & Hamlin LLP. First released in 2000, further editions appeared in 2003, 2008 and 2013. It was the first standard-form partnering contract. In principle, the contract can be used for any kind of project and in any jurisdiction. Within the UK, it is widely adopted in the public sector (especially for social housing projects), while also being taken up on private sector projects...