All Advocacy articles – Page 4
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NewsSRA to ask judges to spill beans on solicitor advocates
Regulator coy on whether latest research could mark return of quality assurance scheme.
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NewsCPS digital drive continues with 2,800 new laptops
Latest Crown Prosecution Service report highlights significant technological investment.
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NewsJudge warns double-booked lawyers: We will start case without you
Family judge says so-called cross courting is increasingly becoming a problem.
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NewsPublic considers barristers 'too expensive' for family advice, regulator finds
Just one in ten family law clients choose to go directly to a barrister for advice, partly due to a widespread belief that barristers charge more than solicitors.
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NewsCriminal bar seeks to 'clarify position' on solicitors after 'postman' jibe
Chair Francis FitzGibbon steps in after vice-chair election dispute.
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NewsSociety tells attorney general: open advocacy panels to solicitors
All documentation for civil panels 'written with barristers in mind'.
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NewsFee cuts ‘will stop junior lawyers earning a living’
MoJ’s proposals will hit people from disadvantaged backgrounds and drive lawyers away from criminal advocacy, JLD says.
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NewsBar chief warns of ‘loss of confidence’ in fee reform
Andrew Langdon QC adds to concerns over AGFS proposals.
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NewsBar backs MoJ fee scheme restructure – with reservations
Council broadly in favour of reform but says this does not mean the proposed rates are adequate.
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NewsSolicitors to ‘vociferously oppose’ fee cuts
Criminal law groups say Ministry of Justice plans to reform litigators’ graduated fee scheme are ill-conceived.
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NewsBar Council announces debt recovery service
Panel of law firms will help recover unpaid fees from ‘professional clients’.
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NewsNumber of solicitors taking silk highest ever
Six solicitor-advocates have been appointed Queen’s Counsel in this year’s selection round, of 13 who applied.
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NewsJunior advocates lose out to QCs in new fees regime – Society
Chancery Lane says solicitor-advocates and junior advocates will receive much smaller increases than the 10% proposed for QCs.
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NewsMoJ publishes advocacy fee proposals
Justice minister Sir Oliver Heald says new fee scheme for advocates will be based on complexity of work.
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NewsAdvocacy fees: Society pulls out of working group
Chancery Lane cites concern about 'lack of openness and transparency'.
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NewsLet graduates represent litigants in person – master of the rolls
Sir Terence Etherton says judges and the professions need to ‘think more creatively’ about improving access to justice.
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NewsFury over Gove’s call for practice curbs on ‘second-class’ solicitor-advocates
Solicitors have reacted angrily to an 'ill-judged, ill-informed and incorrect' attack on solicitor-advocates by Michael Gove. Speaking last night, the former lord chancellor called for restrictions on the rights of audience of solicitor-advocates in order to ‘restore the criminal bar to health’. Claiming barristers provide a ‘better service’, he suggested ...
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NewsCriminal bar chief targets ‘corruption’ of defence work
Francis FitzGibbon QC takes aim at 'incompetent' solicitor-advocates and says patience over planned reforms is wearing thin.
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NewsEnd ‘campaign’ against solicitor-advocates – Bourns
Law Society president says solicitor-advocates are not given enough credit for their work.
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OpinionFusion via the back door
Has the process of fusing the solicitor and barrister professions already begun?