All Law Gazette articles in 13 May 2019
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Feature
Data page – May 2019
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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News
Firm hire: Hill Dickinson welcomes two life science lawyers
Professor Nils Hoppe and Eleanor Coets bring extensive expertise to the firm.
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News
Firm promotions: Boyce Hatton appoints home-grown talent to equity partners
Cheryl Smith and Fiona Squire both started at the firm as paralegals.
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Firm hire: Brown Turner Ross welcomes new solicitor
Abigail Davidson has joined the Liverpool firm.
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Holly Willoughby and fake bubbly for APIL's annual jaunt
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers convenes in Birmingham.
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Insurers stump up millions to lock claimant lawyers out of PI sector
Initial cost of the new-look RTA portal is revealed to conference of personal injury lawyers.
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Growing appetite for digital mortgages - Registry
Land Registry is working with conveyancers who process half of all remortgages in England and Wales.
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Writing on the wall: call for moratorium on court closures
Practitioners hold vigil as images of what has become of former sites are projected onto hoardings.
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Jackson backs new clinical negligence liability test to allow more claims
Retired judge says clinical negligence claims should be heard in a tribunal rather than court.
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Opinion
How economic incentives can help reverse the gender pay gap
Impact money and you can change behaviours.
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News
Lying and incompetent solicitor had 'arrogant disregard' for clients' affairs
Wales practitioner is struck off after tribunal concludes that he told a string of lies to clients and to the SRA.
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Feature
Improving the diversity of your workforce requires cultural change
Diversity and inclusion must be embedded not only in the recruitment process, but throughout an employee’s time at the firm.
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Government ministers wrong to attack decision to grant legal aid to ‘Isis Bride’
Such public and political attacks show worrying disregard for the rule of law.
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Opinion
Issues for lawyers in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The country’s overseas investment project raises significant policy concerns for the profession.
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Opinion
Mental Health Awareness Week: why we should give a damn
Stress is no stranger to lawyers in small, medium or large firms.
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News
Failure to offer super exam in Welsh may be unlawful, SRA warned
Regulator says it is ‘actively considering’ Welsh firstin but that no decision has been taken.
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Judge spikes PI claim from 'disabled' victim over fundamental dishonesty
Claimant wanted case to go to full trial, but judge dismisses case after secret footage showed condition was feigned.
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Ups and downs of a court Twitter feed
‘Does anyone out there know when I last worked?’ @CourtLift tweets from Reading.
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MPs tell Gauke to revisit legal aid for inquests
House of Commons justice select committee says inequality of arms is ‘fundamentally unfair’.
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Defendants pleading guilty online may not be aware of wider consequences, MPs told
Fair Trials says travel, insurance, credit ratings and job opportunities could be adversely affected.