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NewsBalva clients offered hope as SRA targets uninsured
Uncertainty eased for hundreds of firms insured with Latvian company.
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NewsLegal aid cuts will not affect quality, Vara insists
The MInistry of Justice received around 2,000 responses to the legal aid consultation and will respond in the ‘near future’.
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NewsEssex firm quits QualitySolicitors network
Firm makes decision to stand alone after consultation with clients.
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NewsSRA warns of ‘group contagion’ threat to complex structures
Regulator urges firms tied into complex structures to act against the risk.
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NewsSociety aligns with CBI to promote UK legal services abroad
City lobbying alliance a first for Chancery Lane, but SRA chair intervenes in debate on regulatory burden to warn that ‘hundreds of firms are on the edge of collapse’.
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Solicitors move firms as family practice goes under
Legal aid firm based in Milton Keynes is latest to close.
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NewsNew-look patents court gets a chief judge
Intellectual property barrister Richard Hacon, 57, named as presiding judge at the newly renamed Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.
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NewsSlater & Gordon expects deal with Pannone in weeks
Confirmation of talks between the Australian-based firm and top-60 outfit Pannone, following months of speculation.
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NewsMinistry of Justice relationship with outsourcers under scrutiny
Watchdog report raises concerns that the MoJ could be among the most vulnerable to outsourcers that are ‘too big to fail’.
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Legal job numbers in London continue to fall
Lobby group remains optimistic despite 11% drop in two years.
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NewsFamily transparency guidelines this year: Munby
President of the Family Division sets out next steps for media access, including to court documents.
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NewsDiversity League Table shows promotion gap
Black solicitors are a minority within the black and minority ethnic group, according to the diversity league table 2013.
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News‘Knife in back’ claim over RTA data sharing
Insurers fear 'phishing' by claimant firms, Manchester Law Society conference hears.
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NewsSupreme Court to slash IT costs by leaving MoJ contract
The court will shave £175,000 off its IT budget per year by switching case management systems.
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NewsWoolf is University of Law's first chancellor
Fiona Woolf will take up the role at the end of her mayoral term in Novermber 2014
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NewsReview of Civil Justice and Family Justice councils
Government wants evidence on the functions of the Civil Justice Council and Family Justice Council.
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NewsTCC litigators ordered to adopt common eDisclosure protocol
Protocol aims to ensure all parties are up to speed in eDisclosure practices and are working within common guidelines.
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NewsExtend protection for whistleblowers, says Law Society
Public interest would be better served by encouraging those who have witnessed wrongdoing to report what they have seen.
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NewsMilburn urges law firms to scale up use of apprenticeships
Government’s mobility tsar also claims benchmarking socioeconomic backgrounds will help firms open up the profession.
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NewsBar Conference 2013: Barristers in favour of diversity quotas
Barristers signalled support for the introduction of quotas to increase the diversity of the profession at the bar’s annual conference.