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Shadow justice secretary calls for independent review of court fees
Richard Burgon says government ’cannot be trusted’ to carry out review itself.
'Consigned to a footnote': GC wait over accountability continues
Interventions double year-on-year, SRA reveals
Sentencing code 'will save £255m', Law Commission predicts
Society makes new call for clarity on super-exam
SRA to ask judges to spill beans on solicitor advocates
SRA to review dissenting judgment before Leigh Day appeal decision
Fewer conveyancers dealing with soaring workload
Rebuke for divorce lawyer who backdated court letter
Supreme Court humiliates government over tribunal fees
MoJ admits fate of five courts is still 'TBC'
Conveyancers welcome crackdown on leasehold abuse
UK litigation 'cost effective', LCJ declares
Update on clinical negligence fixed costs: No update
'Evasive' firm reported to police over uninstructed PI claim
Labour's Keir Starmer turns down Mishcon de Reya role
Weaker pound provides 'little value' to Charles Russell Speechlys profit growth
Features
How to: Prepare for the succession
In smaller practices, succession planning is often left until retirement comes into view. That is a mistake.
Pre-action disclosure: Not worth the candle?
It will be a rare case where an application for pre-action disclosure is worth the effort
Dodgy motors and the lure of the modern
Like so many bright ideas, abolishing the tax-disc looked a no-brainer. Until it hit the real world.
Brutal and elegant - tribunal judgment will resonate for years
This richly deserved slapdown for the executive has moved at least one lawyer to tears. Bravo, Lord Reed et al.
Attack on judges must end now
Mr Justice Francis should not need to clarify the task before him in Charlie Gard judgment.
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Off with their heads
Courts service action plan speaks volumes
Who? Auntie's GC joins star earners
Solicitor hangs after forgery
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Roundtable: Out in the open
LGBT lawyers believe that the profession has yet to deliver on full equality.
My legal life: Shaun Draycott
Success in 'fake news' injunction first
My legal life: Joe Bateman
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Partner of murdered former Eastenders actress appeals life sentence
Arthur Simpson-Kent, the partner of former EastEnders actress Sian Blake, appeals his whole life sentence for murdering her and their two children after learning she was going to leave him and take them with her. Watch the broadcast, in association with Sky News.
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Supreme Court dismissed the appellant’s appeal against the decision not to grant an interim injunction to restrain publication of any information that might identify him in circumstances where he had been arrested but never charged in relation to the sexual abuse of children.
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