All Law Gazette articles in 13 December 2021
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NewsLPC pass rates unaffected by pandemic
Deferrals more than doubled last year, which the SRA says is due to candidates choosing to wait to sit assessments face-to-face.
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NewsTrainee solicitor prepares for Syria trip to help at refugee camps
Manchester-based lawyer gets ready for his second stint volunteering on the ground.
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NewsHMCTS spends £236m on troubled case management system
Figures for implementing Common Platform programme revealed in written parliamentary answer.
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NewsFirm hire: Stonegate Group appoints director of legal operations
James Richards will focus on legal and estate transactions.
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NewsECtHR declares appeal in 'gay cake case' inadmissible
Ruling brings an end to seven-year saga over Belfast bakery’s refusal to bake a cake with the slogan ‘support gay marriage’.
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NewsInternational firm stays in City with Walkie-Talkie lease
Kennedys reveals plans to occupy 50,000 square feet in the landmark skyscraper for ‘hybrid working’.
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NewsHigh-profile firm's owners forgo profits to invest in business
Profits increase at Thompsons Solicitors despite 'challenging' pandemic year.
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OpinionCheck in on your isolating colleagues - they may need it
For those of us in Covid jail, this has been a tough return to work. Don’t expect too much of them.
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OpinionWhy do people fear lawyers?
From the Theranos trial to Prince Andrew’s sexual assault lawsuit, lawyers play a highly visible role in society. But why are they so feared?
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NewsLawyers furious as judges demand proof of positive Covid tests
Reports emerge that advocates are being told to show they have tested positive if they want a remote hearing.
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NewsDigital evidence in criminal cases can ‘obscure rather than illuminate’ – Sharp
The president of the Queen’s Bench Division warns ‘the scope for evidence that deals with the new technologies to obscure … must also be faced’.
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NewsPartner hires up 26% last year due to ‘legal boom’
But legal recruitment consultancy Edwards Gibson sounds notes of caution over the ongoing ‘associate salary war’.
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NewsMishcon de Reya fined £232,500 over numerous AML failings
Firm agrees to pay one of the biggest ever SRA fines as it prepares to go public.
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NewsClifford Chance’s top earner paid £3.2m last year
Profits at magic circle firm up 4% despite pandemic 'uncertainty', financial statements reveal.
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NewsPart-time judges are working ‘on the cheap’, tribunal rules
Judges who ‘sit up’ in higher courts bring claims alleging that they are unfavourably treated compared with full-time colleagues.
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NewsDomestic abuse victims to be given more time to go to the police
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will move six-month window for a prosecution to commence.
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OpinionLessons from the Theranos scandal
Extraordinary claims about new inventions require extraordinary proof: hype backed by legal threats is not proof.
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NewsApple’s bid to reveal ATE premiums refused by tribunal
Disclosure would ‘confer tactical advantage’ upon tech giant by revealing insurers’ assessment of risk, Competition Appeal Tribunal rules.
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NewsCosts of 22 times damages are ‘reasonable and proportionate’, says judge
Costs are not disproportionate due to ‘broader issues of principle’ at stake in ‘relatively low value’ claim over solar panels.