All articles by Gazette newsdesk – Page 12
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NewsShareholders revolt over Slater and Gordon bonuses as firm plans to shut more UK offices
Nearly 45% of shareholders vote against loss-making company's remuneration report.
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‘Most Muslim women don’t want sharia courts shut’
Muslim women’s group warns that critics who want sharia councils closed immediately have ‘anti-faith agendas’.
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NewsThree-fold rise in legal employers paying ‘real living wage’
Solicitor firms have been at the forefront of private sector efforts to establish sustainable minimum pay rates that reflect the cost of living.
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NewsGateley partners net £6.4m from share sales
Partners cash in on the firm’s pioneering 2015 flotation.
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NewsLaw Society Excellence Awards winners announced
Army’s highest-ranking woman ever is Gazette Personality of the Year 2016.
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NewsBar watchdog cool on competing for ABS business
BSB receiving ‘daily’ enquiries about alternative business structures.
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NewsLaw Society custom posters promote brand – and profession
Posters will appear on 900 bus routes and 440 railway station sites across England and Wales.
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News70 firms sign up with LawBid tendering pioneer
Founder says auction site has far exceeded expectations, with 350 clients also registered.
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NewsSolicitor who fleeced elderly clients jailed for four years
Giles Scott, 63, was a ‘pillar of the local community’ in Stearsby, North Yorkshire.
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NewsPwC integrates legal arm with UK business to launch MDP
SRA hails disruptive potential of accountancy giant’s initiative, which will ‘convenience’ clients rather than ‘convenience the professions’.
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NewsAnti-Brexit group wins right to disclose government’s legal defence
‘Difficult to see a justification’ for secrecy in light of principle of open justice, says judge.
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NewsTransforming justice: judges face pay and expenses curbs
Judges would have to give notice to quit and many will face pay and expenses curbs under plans to overhaul judicial working conditions.
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NewsSolicitor judge Hickinbottom appointed to CoA
Six appointments fill vacancies in the Court of Appeal arising this autumn.
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NewsIndemnity premiums 'down by up to 20%'
Industry experts report that unrated insurers have been priced out of the market because their rated competitors are offering similar deals.
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NewsHMRC needs crack legal team and MoJ oversight – Labour
Labour party report calls for radical overhaul of the tax authority that would see it come within the remit of the MoJ or a panel of retired judges.
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NewsCheers! Lawyers net £200m from SABMiller deal
UK’s biggest corporate takeover is a fee boon for magic circle giants.
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NewsSlater and Gordon warns of billion-dollar trading loss
Stock market-listed pioneer is set to post record annual loss for a law firm.
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NewsBumper profits for Baker & McKenzie
International colossus posts 14% hike in dollar profits in face of ‘currency headwinds’.
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NewsProfits dive at BLM
Top-50 insurance litigation firm, which has expanded into Scotland and Northern Ireland, plans a global network.
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NewsNew chief coroner appointed
HHJ Mark Lucraft QC will become the second chief coroner on 1 October.