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Rebel MPs defeated on specialist rape courts
Courts minister Sarah Sackman says suggested amendment to Courts and Tribunals Bill would not drive down outstanding caseload or waiting times in the longer term.
Fletchers creates new 200-strong business with double acquisition
Family lawyers fly the FLAG for arbitration
PI sector continues to shrink as firm buys up rival
Legal aid first for school exclusions
Court of Appeal clears way for SDT to rehear Dentons money laundering case
In depth: ‘Law has become a geopolitical instrument’, litigators told
‘Overworked’ solicitor cleared over allegations of sending misleading emails
Deputy High Court judge’s ‘excessive intervention’ leads to misconduct sanction
BSB reveals multiple live investigations into Post Office barristers
Law Society proposes below-inflation PC fee increase
Male applicants for Supreme Court 'more confident', says president
FCA urges firms fighting motor finance redress scheme to ‘consider their clients’
Adoption orders are final, Supreme Court finds
UN rapporteurs demand answers on UK’s ‘intimidation’ of Hamas case solicitor
In depth: SQE put to the test
CJC aims to end court costs disputes in Solicitors Act overhaul
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Mother in Law: Getting the measure of your targets
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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Partnership
My legal life: Peter Kandler, co-founder of North Kensington Law Centre
Lawyer in the news: Toby Wilton, Hickman & Rose
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Professional indemnity insurance: Playing hide and seek
Stable prices and ample capacity remain benign characteristics of the PII market, but some experts fear that cost does not reflect risk. Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette Roundtable
What Not to Wear? Court bars bikinis and Batman costumes
New HMCTS guidance released on dressing appropriately in court.
Memory lane
Co-op Group move into legal services, an education shake-up, and a legal electronic network: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
Expect a junior minister to take the (white) heat
HMCTS will test the ability of its home-grown AI software to generate transcripts of Crown court proceedings.
Empty seats in the Commons
Just four MPs bothered to show up to interrogate leaders of the LSB and SRA – and one left halfway through.
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’.
Clinical negligence: Bills of Health
Mazur must be a catalyst for change
Why reform of surrogacy law cannot wait
Chabra and the limits of freezing orders
Have the legal directories had their day?
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All the latest news from Solicitors Regulation Authority
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SRA consults on proposals to strengthen continuing competence requirements
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Reports find SQE to be robust with improvements made
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Update on support for clients of PM Law
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SRA to expand executive leadership team as part of operational excellence drive
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Regulators launch joint taskforce to crack down on poor practice in motor finance claims
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Chief executive sets out priorities for change in 2026
Firm hire: Irwin Mitchell strengthens military team
Firm promotion: First managing partner at Arbor Law
Firm hire: New residential property head joins Thomson Hayton Winkley
Firm hire: Trowers welcomes banking and finance partner
Firm promotion: International Family Law Group appoints partner
Firm promotion: Private client partner appointment at Clough & Willis
Firm promotions: Directors appointed at Switalskis
Firm hire: RWK Goodman welcomes real estate partner
Useful reference point on Islam and UK law
Naureen Shariff reviews 'Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: United Kingdom (volume 25)'.
Drafts, Disclaimers and Deaths
David Pickup reviews 'Drafts, Disclaimers and Deaths'.
Killer or wronged victim?
David Pickup reviews 'The Stranger on the Stairs'.
An 'all-encompassing moral ideology'? Not quite
Jonathan Goldsmith reviews 'Survival Codes: World Law and the Future of Humanity'.
Contemporary challenge as old as the Garden of Eden
Making Amends for Historic Wrongs: Reparative Justice and the Problem of the Past.
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