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Post Office scandal: SRA plans swifter action over conduct
Regulator not minded to wait over issues such as cooperation with the inquiry, board papers reveal.
Solicitor fined over vulnerable client's representation
Expert evidence branded 'literally unbelievable' as PI claim fails
Legal aid rates in forensic science 'risk miscarriages of justice'
SRA plans risk profiler to flag potential law firm collapses
Largest tribunal centre in the country to open - at last
In depth: Supreme Court delivers 'bombshell' ruling on software patents - or does it?
MoD to pilot free legal support for rape complainants
Court of Protection declines to replace single joint expert in capacity case
SRA investigating potential fraud at collapsed PM Law
In depth: Lammy's plan to seize client account interest faces bitter opposition
Solicitor convicted of stalking faces SRA probe over leasehold 'threats'
Former employee secures unfair dismissal award against collapsed firm
SFO investigates 'troubling' disclosure issues
Expelled law student made 'bomb' threat to university
High Court dismisses JR over EHRC trans guidance
Firm launches scholarship in memory of much-loved late colleague
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Clinical negligence roundtable: Speaking up, speaking out
Health outcome statistics for women expose a ‘gender pain gap’. With a sky-high clinical negligence bill, how can law and lawyers work with patients, clinicians and health trusts to narrow the divide? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable.
Law firm ads clash with full-time tweets
They've all not gone quiet over there.
Gazette memory lane
Calls for a single regulator, advocacy test failures and ministerial memoirs: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
King’s councillor
Waltham Forest Council’s principal lawyer has a notable meeting with the monarch.
Email is just phoning it in
A generational divide appears over the willingness to get on the ‘dog ’n bone’.
Novice solicitor lied about university career to get City job
Former in-house practitioner ‘created a persona that he thought was required for a role in private practice’.
AI and disclosure: Too much information
Sarah Rapson: 'There is a reset to do at the SRA'
Raising the age of responsibility
Digital access to court files
Office politics: commercial property
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All the latest news from Solicitors Regulation Authority
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SRA intervention into PM Law Ltd
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Update on the SRA's investigation into PM Law Ltd group
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SRA intervention into PM Law Ltd
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FCA and SRA issue joint warning to firms representing motor finance commission claims
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The SQE: Four Years On - new report highlights diversity and assesses factors affecting performance
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SRA warning notice over 'no win, no fee' practices
Firm hire: Real estate appointments at Addleshaw Goddard
Firm hire: Harrogate Family Law welcomes senior lawyer
Firm hire: Senior employment lawyer joins Blandy & Blandy
Firm hire: Grosvenor Law welcomes white collar crime lead
Firm hire: Maguire Family Law appoints Manchester head
Firm hire: Family law specialist joins mfg Solicitors
Firm hire: Residential property partner appointment at Ramsdens
Firm hire: Clinical negligence team strengthened at Medical Solicitors
Polar exploration
Dr Carlo Corcione reviews 'Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Polar Law'.
The ruling classes
David Pickup reviews 'Judging' by Ross Cranston.
Managing the immigration paradox
'In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular'
A pandemic of inhumanity
Christopher Stanley reviews 'Law and Inhumanity: Dehumanization, Silent Claims and Atrocity Crimes'.
Giving political cover to legal decisions
James E Hurford reviews 'Rethinking Legitimacy: Courts, Constitutions and Politics'.
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