All articles by Gazette newsdesk – Page 11
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NewsFreshfields bosses share £18.1m as executive pay climbs 8%
Top executives at magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer shared £18.1m in the last financial year, an 8% increase on the previous 12 months. The joint remuneration of the senior partner, managing partners and global practice group heads is disclosed in newly filed group accounts for the year to 30 ...
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NewsSociety report: solicitors ready for ‘automation revolution’
Landmark Law Society study considers how firms should embrace technologies that were 'unimaginable even a decade ago’.
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NewsFTSE giants launch GC network to tackle rule of law failures
Network - including Vodafone, BP, HSBC and others - will be chaired by Graham Vinter, formerly GC of BG Group, who is now at Covington & Burling.
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KWM Europe finally collapses into administration
‘Too early’ to speculate on redundancies, says Quantuma, after managing partner bows out with farewell message.
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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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NewsOutgoing Law Society CEO to head York FE college
Catherine Dixon is moving north to become chief executive of Askham Bryan agricultural college in York.
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NewsLaw Society to press on with reform after CEO resigns
Catherine Dixon told 100-strong ruling council she ‘cannot in good faith continue to be chief executive of an organisation which is not prepared to change’.
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VAT on searches – new guidance for conveyancers
Local councils may begin charging at any time from now until 31 March, Society warns.
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NewsLaw Society chief executive resigns
Catherine Dixon is leaving Chancery Lane ‘with a heavy heart’ over Council’s failure to progress governance reforms.
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NewsPiracy and space experts awarded New Year honours
Solicitors in private practice appear alongside MoJ and Government Legal Department heads.
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NewsCMA report: firms must publish price information
Competition and Markets Authority publishes final report after a year-long study of legal services market.
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NewsProfession reacts: 'Astonishing' that CMA downgrades consumer protection - Law Society
Bourns says deregulatory changes would undermine consumer protections and erode trust.
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NewsWelsh government plans national legal code
Programme to codify distinct body of Wales law will help solicitors, who can struggle to establish what the law is in areas such as planning.
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NewsTrain youth justice lawyers and pay them more – landmark report
Quality of legal representation in Youth Court often ‘very poor’, says government-commissioned report, partly because criminal lawyers appearing there are badly paid.
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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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NewsGovernment to propose £5k small claims limit – BBC
Report says the Ministry of Justice is also set to cap minor injuries compensation at 'just over £400'.
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NewsBrexit: commercial courts can still ‘cut the mustard’, says new Chancery head
Sir Geoffrey Vos insists London can build on its reputation as the dispute resolution centre of choice when the UK leaves the EU.
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NewsJustice committee defends judges after Tory MPs confront lord chancellor
Two former Bar Council chairs have signed chambers letter criticising lord chancellor’s ‘inadequate’ defence of article 50 trio.
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NewsUnrepentant Mail demands ‘public hearings’ for judges as Brexit row escalates
Former attorney general Dominic Grieve condemns 'weak' statement from lord chancellor defending article 50 judges, as lawyers continue to vent fury at vitriolic press attacks.