All articles by Gazette reporter – Page 15
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NewsFirm fined for failing to manage AML risks
Bishop Auckland practice did not conduct adequate source of funds checks in conveyancing transaction.
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NewsSexual misconduct will not be punished with fines, SRA proposes
Regulator promises 'rigorous steps' to improve the robustness of procedures under new fining powers.
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NewsStarmer fails to back bar strike
Robert Rinder grills Labour leader on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
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NewsCriminal defender in line for Law Society presidency
Richard Atkinson has specialised in criminal law for 30 years with a focus on serious crime litigation.
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News£250 goodwill payouts for SQE fiasco
SRA chief executive says lessons will be learned from the disruption on 21 July.
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NewsNon-practising solicitors must pay to stay on the roll
SRA confirms that an annual charge will be introduced, likely to be around £40.
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NewsExam operator announces refunds for SQE fiasco
Candidates who had been booked at Hammersmith on two dates will be refunded £1,558, Kaplan announces.
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NewsAG denies plan to ban government lawyers from rejecting policy
Updated legal risk guidance will 'focus on how government lawyers can work with ministers to problem-solve'.
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NewsSociety recommends 4% rise for trainees
New recommended minimum salary is £23,703 in the capital and £21,024 elsewhere in England and Wales.
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NewsRegulation row: Defiant CILEX chief attacks profession’s ‘elitism’
Matthew Huggett has defended the institute’s bid to transfer oversight of legal executives to the SRA.
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NewsSolicitors warned on corporate undertakings risks
Courts do not have the same power to enforce undertakings against corporate entities as they do against individual solicitors.
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News‘We will sue you’ - civil war breaks out at CILEX
Regulator is threatening legal action over representative body’s plan to transfer member oversight to the SRA.
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NewsLegal aid increase SI is laid - at last
Long fought-for 9% increase will come in at end of September.
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NewsMoR may be on brink of ‘destroying our civil justice ecosystem’
Chair of the Law Society’s civil litigation section advisory committee critiques controversial claims-handling reforms proposed by master of the rolls.
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NewsFamily solicitors welcome extension of voucher scheme
£5.4m invested to steer family cases away from court - but more needs to be done, says Law Society.
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News‘Reverse civil legal aid cuts’ - think tank
Social Market Foundation also wants to see medical-legal partnerships resurrected to prevent problems ‘snowballing’.
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NewsEqualising goal: Law Society proposes SLAPP curbs
Chancery Lane responds to government consultation by focusing on limiting costs and equality of arms. The Society of Editors, meanwhile, wants to see ‘punitive damages’ awarded to SLAPPs victims.
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NewsRights reform and Brexit freedoms expected in Queen’s speech
Bill will seek to change the relationship between domestic courts and the Strasbourg court.
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NewsBar set to scrap student aptitude test
Watchdog insists training providers are now more selective - but concerns remain that the profession is hugely oversubscribed.