All Government & politics articles – Page 49
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Conveyancer checklist to reduce lease application errors
HM Land Registry says surrender and regrants are complex and often misunderstood.
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Solicitors face three-hour round trip to stop Devon duty scheme collapsing
Legal Aid Agency seeks to bolster numbers covering Barnstaple but acknowledges travel will be an issue.
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More advocacy rights? Solicitors 'already stretched to breaking point'
Law Society says 15% fee uplift across the board still needed if government wants more lawyers in Crown court.
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Bar strike: More solicitors could be granted advocacy rights
Justice secretary Dominic Raab reportedly considering ways to let non-barristers represent clients in Crown court.
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Attack on bar strike is a smokescreen for courts energy crisis, says Labour
Shadow justice secretary says cost of heating and powering crumbling buildings has soared in the past five years.
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Criminal bar 'holding justice to ransom' - lord chancellor
Escalation of action over legal aid funding is 'needless and indefensible', Dominic Raab writes in the Daily Mail.
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Solicitors 'cannot strike but they'll continue to quit' over legal aid
Law Society says members are in the same boat as barristers and see no future in criminal defence work.
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Firms to make millions from Covid inquiry contracts
National firm Burges Salmon secures £9.8m contract with the Cabinet Office for Covid-19 inquiry.
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Lawyers for female Afghan judge in 'constant fear' file immigration appeal
London firm Kingsley Napley says government has moral duty to give judge and her son safe passage.
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All out: barristers vote overwhelmingly for full-blown strike
New prime minister will face criminal justice headache as court backlog set to get considerably worse.
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Legal Aid Agency rota demonstrates duty solicitor decline
Latest figures prompt Law Society to renew call for government to implement 15% fee increase across all areas of criminal legal aid.
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Government dealt partial blow in bid to keep Rwanda documents secret
Ministers sought to withold disclosure on grounds of public interest immunity.
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Legal aid lawyers working longer under online immigration regime
Ministry of Justice extends consultation period for fixed fee proposals after publishing survey on casework.
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Ex-justice minister criticises lawyers over modern slavery claims
Modern Slavery Act 2015 is ‘one of the biggest loopholes in our immigration system’, Chris Philp writes.
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'End foolish and misguided strike', law firm chief tells criminal bar
Midlands practice says it is recruiting in-house counsel to ensure defendants are represented.
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Bill of Rights: good or bad for human rights?
A look at what will change and what will remain the same if the Bill of Rights is enacted.
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Government interventions in local authorities
A look at the legal issues surrounding local authority interventions in light of recent high-profile failings and gloomy financial predictions.
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Starmer fails to back bar strike
Robert Rinder grills Labour leader on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
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Possession figures suggest 'significant wave of homelessness' looms
Latest quarterly figures published by Ministry of Justice show number of mortgage and landlord claims continuing to rise.
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Magistrates' court staff vote to strike over Common Platform
PCS union warns of ‘significant, targeted and sustained industrial action’.