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NewsRegulator amends rule to allow barristers to refuse fee cut
The ‘deeming’ provision of the cab rank rule will not apply to VHCCs following the Bar Standards Board’s statement.
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NewsSRA opens ‘forensic investigations’ into fee-ban avoidance
Visits to firms have continued through November as enforcement action comes closer.
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NewsBar Council rapped over cab rank changes
Legal Services Board says council failed to act in a way ‘compatible with the principle of regulatory independence’.
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News141 firms must prepare to shut down, says SRA
Regulator wants to encourage firms that failed to secure professional indemnity insurance to plan for the worst.
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NewsMoJ data shows black offenders more likely to be jailed
Statistics over four years show disparity based on ethnicity.
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NewsNumber of new EU laws falls to historic low
Study shows 1,474 legislative changes made in 2012, down 11% on previous year.
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NewsConflicted firms ‘unable to act against banks’
Businesses being ‘driven into bankruptcy’ by RBS are unable to fight back through the courts, Tomlinson report finds.
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NewsSolicitor-financial adviser ventures on the rise
Trend follows liberalisation of rules that prevented law firms referring clients to advisers tied into offering certain financial products.
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NewsLemma manager hid finances
The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission said that David Brown was ‘not fit and proper to be a manager of a Gibraltar insurance company’.
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News70% reject rulings by LeO
The LSCP says the ombudsman service suffers from ‘false expectations’ of users, who complain of a lack of information and understanding of complaints.
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NewsInterpreter disruption dragging on
Statistics released last week show that the performance of the courtroom interpreter service provided by Capita fell in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year.
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Law Society dismisses lay chairs idea
The Society said the proposal was based on ‘very limited evidence’ and wrongly assumed lawyers would inevitably act in the profession’s interest.
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NewsChancery Lane warning follows bar strike vote
The Society has warned that solicitors considering similar action are in a very different position to the bar.
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Boost to expert witnesses
Jackson reforms have boosted the use of expert witnesses in mediations, where their presence is part of an increasingly tactical approach, a Gazette special focus reveals today.
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NewsStarmer honoured
Keir Starmer QC, the former director of public prosecutions, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London’s School of Law.
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Nottingham sitting for Philpott appeal
The Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal will sit at Nottingham Crown Court on 29 November. The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas, Mr Justice Flaux and Mr Justice MacDuff will hear a renewed application by Mairead Philpott and Paul Mosley seeking to appeal their sentences for the manslaughter of ...
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Criminal bar 'slowly being destroyed', says judge
HH Judge Woolman warns that dispensing justice could become 'impossible'.
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NewsEurope lukewarm on EU-wide judicial system
Two-thirds of people agree that the functioning of national judicial systems is exclusively a matter for EU member states.
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NewsJudge's fury at ‘eye-watering’ Young divorce case costs
Ex-wife awarded half of husband’s assets but judge is critical of time and costs spent during case.