All Law Gazette articles in 26 February 2018
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News
PI market will shrink to just a dozen firms says legal investor
Risk capital manager believes high street banks are pulling out from the market for smaller firms.
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News
Promotions: Browne Jacobson
Browne Jacobson appoint new head and deputy head of office positions in four cities.
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News
Six out of 50 firms visited by SRA face money laundering action
Thematic review concludes that most firms are taking 'appropriate steps' to implement 2017 regulations.
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News
Beast from the east: winter weather causes court chaos
HM Courts & Tribunals Service confirms several closures.
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Opinion
Day of reckoning for Turkey's persecution
Joint event to debate ways of providing effective legal remedies to thousands of arrests in wake of 2016 coup.
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News
First 100 years: largest ever census of women in law
Law Society vice-president welcomes new Women in Criminal Law network and announces events to mark suffrage centenary.
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Government lifts libel costs threat
Section 40 of Crime and Courts Act to be repealed ’at the earliest opportunity’.
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'This is the future': HMCTS unveils £8m Birmingham transformation
Combined civil, family and tribunal justice centre will house 59 courtrooms and chambers, 60 judges and 223 members of staff.
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Chief coroner considers 'cab rank' burial rule to be unlawful
Firm representing Jewish funeral organiser's judicial review challenge says senior judge's support is hugely important.
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Don't treat litigants in person as an unwelcome problem, judges told
Judiciary publishes 422-page guidance to ensure everyone is treated fairly and equally.
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Trending on Twitter: Parole Board chief highlights transparency constraints
Professor Nick Hardwick says prisoners, psychiatrists and psychologists must be able to speak candidly.
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The legal 'blob': former lord chancellor attacks 'gloopy, treacly' professionals
Liz Truss describes herself as ’instinctively pro-disrupton and anti-vested interests’.
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Accounts reveal £7.6m annual loss at rescued Simpson Millar
New parent company agrees to write off acquired debts along with 'letter of comfort'.
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Solicitor loses privilege appeal over evidence in billionaire's divorce case
£453m pay-out thought to be among highest ordered in an English court.
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News
Barrister who claimed she saved clients from death penalty disbarred
Anisah Ahmed made a string of false claims in her pupillage application.
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Partners: Jonathan Brew and Richard Knight
Jonathan Brew passes senior partner role at Harrison Clark Rickerbys to Richard Knight.
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Firm hire: Simon Fisher and Sarah Samuel Gibbon
Gardner Leader appoint Simon Fisher and Sarah Samuel Gibbon.