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Negligence claim against DWF and barristers ‘entirely without foundation’

2023-12-07T15:30:00+00:00By Charlie Moloney

Clients sued international firm over advice on the sale of their business.

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Private client roundtable

Life support

As a practice area, private client is both protected from ‘AI’ and struggling with government automation of life-critical processes. Eduardo Reyes reports.

Parliament

SRA ducks and dives before depleted justice committee

Only four MPs turned up for the questioning of the Law Society and two regulators.

Portrait of Lubna Shuja

Shuja scoops lifetime achievement award

Lubna Shuja, immediate past president of the Law Society, picked up a lifetime achievement award at the Asian Legal Awards at a glittering ceremony in central London last Saturday.

Houses of Parliament

Attack and defence as MP savages CILEX

Obiter braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to head to committee room 15 in the Palace of Westminster, where representatives of the Bar Council, Bar Standards Board, CILEX and CILEx Regulation were grilled by the Commons justice select committee on regulation of the legal professions.

Manchester

Martyn won’t be calling it a Day

Obiter ventured north on the West Coast main line to celebrate the opening of high-profile firm Leigh Day’s human rights department in Manchester.

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