All articles by Gazette reporter – Page 16
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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.
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NewsGovernment ‘taking sledgehammer to justice’ says Society
Chancery Lane warns of ‘sea change’ in submission to UN universal periodic review of human rights.
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NewsLaw Society president wins diversity award
I. Stephanie Boyce lauded as 'inspirational role model' at Burberry British Diversity Awards.
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News'Sledgehammer to justice': Society condemns HRA proposals
'Reputation as a standard bearer for justice, a champion of human rights and a stable international partner is at risk.'
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NewsCity solicitor is London's latest cycling casualty
Shatha Ali is eighth cyclist to be killed in Holborn area since 2008.
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NewsAfghan evacuees face legal limbo, Society warns
Interim immigration papers for last summer’s refugees are set to expire in the coming weeks.