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New whistleblowing guidance for in-house lawyers
Latest version of ethics framework considers how a solicitor’s duty to whistleblow could conflict with client confidentiality.
Society welcomes renters' rights legislation
Former trader Hayes returns to court seeking $400m in damages
Firm boss struck off for taking client money and issuing bad cheques
No offers to buy ‘Ping your Lawyer’ app which cost millions
Justice charity to invite bids for collective action millions
You could just have stood up, judge tells barrister 'denied chance to speak'
Call to tackle 'aggressive' costs strategies in class actions
Lost King defamation action settles ahead of trial
‘Gross exaggeration’: Court slashes firm's costs after 'inexplicable' error
Data removal fees scrapped for vulnerable people
LAA system was 'extremely high risk' in 2021, MPs told
Review of stalking laws follows 'super-complaint'
Justice unveils blueprint to cut remand population
LPP no 'cast iron defence' to solicitors' phones being searched, say police
Supreme Court announces new deputy president
SRA planning 'more intrusion' into law firms in wake of SSB debacle
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We are not alone
Immigration through the lens of the legal profession.
The ECHR: legal and political fault lines
The question is not whether the European Convention on Human Rights is outdated, but if the political narrative around it is eroding the very trust it was designed to uphold.
An open letter to the SRA from an SSB Law whistleblower
SRA chair Anna Bradley favours continuity at the top, but this simply won’t do.
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My legal life: Elizabeth Duan, DR Solicitors
Lawyer in the news: Jess Steele, Freshfields
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My legal life: Helen Bunker, Blake Morgan
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Tube passengers hammered
Latest sighting of an inappropriate gavel.
Stray barrister’s day at the races
I still think of barrister Billy Rees-Davies QC, rogue that he was, with great affection.
Fast worker
Alexander Morgan, partner at national firm Knights, races classic cars competitively.
SRA leaders face the music at annual conference
More than 1,000 compliance officers will be in Birmingham tomorrow.
New whistleblowing guidance for in-house lawyers
Latest version of ethics framework considers how a solicitor’s duty to whistleblow could conflict with client confidentiality.
Skeleton arguments
Chatting with AI: practice, privilege and problems
Risk of unfairness in historical prosecutions
Why would a legal firm set up a charity?
Public access to court documents: prepare for the pilot
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Firm hire: Litigation lawyer joins BTTJ
Firm hire: Gilson Gray welcomes residential conveyancing head
Firm hires: Thrings
Firm hires: Actons
Firm hires: mfg Solicitors
Firm hire: McHale & Co welcomes motorbike claims team lead
Firm promotion: Morrish Solicitors appoints employment associate
Firm hires: Six trainees join TWM Solicitors
Act of inhumanity that heralded the end of slavery
Michael Cross reviews 'The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery'.
A lower tier of rights?
James E Hurford reviews 'Rethinking the Law of Private Property' by Jan G Laitos.
No mere legal shapeshifter
Christopher Stanley reviews 'The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography' by Valentin Jeutner.
Hale goes back to her roots
With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works for Everyone and How We Can Make it Work Better.
Fighting for the right to say your piece
David Pickup reviews 'On the Law of Speaking Freely' by Adam Tomkins.
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