Big Picture
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NewsPoll reveals 'endemic' racial and gender bias in US legal profession
Survey exposes major issues with unconscious bias running through the American sector.
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NewsCity profit surge but ‘bumps ahead’
The financial year yielded healthy profits across the City but firm bosses have warned of tougher times ahead.
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NewsBeware of cyber attacks from hostile nations, spy agency tells law firms
National Cyber Security Centre says that 60% of practices reported 'information security incidents’ last year.
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NewsSociety speaks out on threat to judicial independence in Poland
Legislation empowering country’s president to determine constitution of Supreme Court comes into force today.
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NewsMagna Carta writ large
Clause 39 of Magna Carta – ‘No free man shall be seized or imprisoned’ – is the centrepiece of the first UK monument to the 1215 contract to be erected at Runnymede. Writ on Water is an ‘immersive space for contemplation and reflection’ commissioned by the National Trust from artist ...
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NewsRight to choose
Rival protests took place outside the Royal Courts of Justice last week before a legal challenge over the law on assisted dying. Retired lecturer Noel Conway, 68, who has motor neurone disease, is seeking the right to choose when his life should end with medical help. Conway’s campaign was supported ...
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NewsRock and Rolls
Sir Cliff Richard appeared at the Rolls Building in London last week to give evidence in a landmark privacy case that is testing the boundaries of media freedom.
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NewsCo-op Legal acquires probate oufit as profits stall
Pioneering consumer brand adds Simplify Probate to legal offer after integrating with Funeralcare service.
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NewsDead justice! French lawyers plan national action
Profession announces national demonstration against reforms.
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NewsRussia crackdown
The government has hinted at passing a British version of the Magnitsky Act, a US law that freezes assets and imposes travel bans on Russians suspected of human rights violations, following the nerve agent poisonings in Salisbury.
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NewsFirm in trade mark row with embattled football club
Football club posts photograph of letter announcing registration of its name.
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News'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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NewsSupreme Court told of 'material error' in Pimlico Plumbers ruling
Landmark case on scope of employment rights in 'gig economy' will have far-reaching repercussions.
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NewsPakistan's 'fearless' rights champion dies at 66
Campaigning lawyer Asma Jahangir was the first woman president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
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NewsLauri Love wins extradition appeal in landmark forum bar test
Lord Burnett and Mr Justice Ouseley say Crown Prosecution Service 'must now bend its endeavours' to prosecution in England.
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NewsNoel Edmonds secures 'seven-figure' funding for HBOS claim
Litigation can begin after presenter announces deal which includes ATE insurance.
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