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Jurors should know what expert witnesses are paid, MPs told
Former City trader Tom Hayes, whose convictions were quashed, also highlights ‘a complete inequality of arms in relation to experts’.
Neuberger speaks of 'disturbing' plight of ordinary people caught up in the courts
In depth: Family Division president's parting shots
Super-regulator outlines scope of Mazur review
Firms increasingly open to private equity
Respond to online complaints - and don't be defensive, SRA recommends
MPs call for new protocol for verifying legal correspondence
Court of Appeal attacks council's 'radical interference with family life'
Society welcomes extension of Swiss access deal
Tribunal member sanctioned for using phone in hearings
Funders must wait for PACCAR solution - Sackman
Government seeks evidence for whiplash review
Scrapping class actions would fuel anti-competitive behaviour, bar warns
NHS trusts cannot reclaim car parking VAT, Supreme Court rules
In depth: Parental alienation in child custody cases
Family president announces departure as he highlights value of solicitors
Solicitor who advised both prosecution witness and defendant suspended
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Clinical negligence roundtable: Speaking up, speaking out
Health outcome statistics for women expose a ‘gender pain gap’. With a sky-high clinical negligence bill, how can law and lawyers work with patients, clinicians and health trusts to narrow the divide? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable.
Memory lane
Lifting ban on lawyer adverts and celebrating 25 years of legal aid: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
Week link
Gird your loins for London Arbitration Week, five days and nights of brainstorming and networking.
Name dropping
Lawyer cuts through the flummery of stripping titles.
SRA sorrows come not in single (s)pies
History repeated itself at the SRA’s compliance conference. As tragedy or farce. You be the judge.
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.
Mona Rigsby: A pioneering woman in Caribbean law
Commercial property: Space race
Skeleton arguments
Chatting with AI: practice, privilege and problems
Risk of unfairness in historical prosecutions
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All the latest news from Solicitors Regulation Authority
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SRA apologises and fully accepts recommendations of SSB review
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SRA calls for views to shape further robust action on claims
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SRA acts on concerns about law firm practices on high-volume claims
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SRA awards £360,000 for disadvantaged candidates to take SQE
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SRA and FCA warn law firms and claims management companies over poor practices in motor finance commission claims
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SRA appoints Sarah Rapson as new Chief Executive Officer
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
Demystifying AI
Rachel Rothwell reviews 'Andrew and the Marvellous Analytical Machine' by Andrew Hogan.
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
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