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NewsHermer: Don’t fear discussing ECHR reform
International institutions must always evolve to retain public confidence, attorney general tells a friendly audience.
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NewsLeveson review: end 'perverse incentives' for solicitors
In wide-ranging 378-page criminal courts review, Sir Brian Leveson says legal aid fee systems discourage early guilty pleas.
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NewsLegal scepticism over government’s NDA ban
Move could give victims less control over what information makes it into the public domain.
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NewsJury trials could be curbed, Mahmood hints
Ahead of publication of Leveson review, Shabana Mahmood says jury trials take five times longer than cases heard in the magistrates' court.
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ProfileMy legal life: Susanna McGibbon KC, Treasury Solicitor
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Government Legal Department.
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OpinionLeveson looms: curbing trials by jury
Battle lines are already being drawn, with lawyers setting out to defend jury trial and the courts minister insisting that justice delayed is justice denied.
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NewsLegal aid fee uplifts 'not high enough' to rebuild sector
Legal aid sector says higher fee increases are needed if government wants to 'rebuild a more stable and sustainable' sector.
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NewsGLD vows to maintain London legal presence
Cabinet Office announced in May that 102 Petty France will close for good as part of a ‘Plan for London’.
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NewsMoJ confirms fee uplifts for housing and immigration work
Housing and immigration lawyers to get a pay rise - but still no news on fee increases for rest of civil legal aid sector.
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ProfileSarah Sackman KC MP: 'Access to justice is a form of empowerment'
With Sir Brian Leveson’s review of the Crown courts imminent, justice minister Sarah Sackman proposes a ‘bold modernisation initiative’ to reduce the backlog in cases. And in the civil sphere, she tells Michael Cross that technology can ‘democratise access to justice’.
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NewsIn depth: Family data desert is impeding improvement to court services
MPs hear that the government’s approach to improving family court services for children is being impeded by information gaps and the lack of a joined-up plan to enhance data collection and analysis.
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NewsLegal Aid Agency urged to give solicitors more powers
Ten-point set of recommendations to minimise data breach fallout.
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NewsIn depth: Anti-money laundering reform - what changes do solicitors want?
As swingeing fines for non-compliance multiply, the government’s industrial strategy pledges ‘clearer and more proportionate’ anti-money laundering regulations for lawyers. So what needs to change?
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News'NHS 111' service for justice system could save £72m
Law Society unveils recommendations from its pioneering 21st Century Justice project.
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OpinionSolicitors' starship reaches the final frontier
According to the government, the legal profession is a frontier industry - up there with aerospace, life sciences and AI.
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NewsGovernment pledges 'clearer' new AML rules for law firms
Industrial strategy brands legal sector a 'national asset' - but warns upskilling is urgently needed.
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NewsNot 'grooming' but rape: Casey review calls for law change
Baroness Casey’s review of so-called grooming gangs highlighted the ‘sex offenders go-to defence’, allowing them to escape a proportionate sentence. And ‘victim-blaming misogyny’ means cases go uninvestigated
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NewsIn depth: Foreign lawyers in immigration limbo
The government’s immigration reforms envisage doubling the qualifying period for settlement in the UK, thereby throwing the future of thousands of registered foreign lawyers into disarray.
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OpinionA manifesto for change
Dana Denis-Smith reviews 'Lefty Lawyer - Speaking Truth to Power' by Pauline Campbell.
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NewsSentencing Council blocked from referring to race or ethnicity in guidance
Lord chancellor Shabana Mahmood says legislation will ensure defendants are treated fairly in court.