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NewsBar watchdog handed extra powers
BSB will be able to impose interim curbs on a barrister’s freedom to practise where misconduct has been found.
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NewsCEO of top litigation funder warns against ‘unthoughtful’ industry reforms
Burford boss Christopher Bogart dismisses fee caps as a ‘dumb idea’ - but the company is comfortable with the looming prospect of regulation.
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NewsHigh Court hears landmark legal aid challenge over school exclusion appeals
Claimant's lawyers say case is about access to justice in an 'important and sensitive area'.
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NewsFirm to pay for staff to get neurodiversity assessment and help
International practice vows to uphold a ‘culture of greater awareness and understanding’.
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NewsPost Office Inquiry: Five legal issues Paula Vennells will have to address
Former chief executive will give evidence over the next three days.
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NewsSRA fines firm £121k after wrong amounts paid to beneficiaries
Norfolk firm failed to rectify client account shortage for eight years.
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NewsNo default costs penalty for failed fundamental dishonesty plea, rules CoA
Court says trial judge was entitled to rule out indemnity costs despite ‘baffling’ allegation.
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News'Get-rich-quick' claims dismissed as hopeless and abusive
Master says near-identical financial claims gave the appearance of deceit and contempt of court.
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NewsCourt approves sale of properties linked to Axiom Ince boss
Administrators have also secured a bankruptcy order against Pragnesh Modhwadia.
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NewsCapacity boost for Fleetwood after Blackpool court condemned
Two new courtrooms earmarked for Nightingale court after concrete problem closed Blackpool.
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NewsInfected blood scandal: inquiry chair demands statutory duty of candour
Sir Brian Langstaff outlines key recommendations and calls for government to make a meaningful apology.
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NewsMR hails digital justice watershed - but disowns his ‘famous “funnel”’
Master of the rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos says CPRC will ‘provide a set of open digital standards to enable existing digitisation to be coordinated’.
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NewsPost Office worried about optics of employing ‘more assertive’ lawyers
General counsel Jane MacLeod said City firm would make Post Office seem like corporate bullies.
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News'Satoshi' impersonation 'a serious abuse of court's process' judge concludes
'Slippery' witness Craig Wright ‘not nearly as clever as he thinks he is’, finds judgment following six-week Rolls Building trial.
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News'Catalogue of failures' caused infected blood scandal - inquiry
Solicitor for 1,500 victims and their families says inquiry has delivered 'no-holds-barred, hard-hitting report'.
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NewsSRA waives £63k fine to protect creditors of collapsed firm
North-west firm submitted 100,000 claims in 18 months but did not do necessary checks.
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NewsOperation Early Dawn 'effectively holding defendants incommunicado'
Emergency measure triggered by lord chancellor to ease prison capacity pressures left law firm in the dark over client.
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NewsManchester firm says £12m bank facility will fast-track acquisitions
Horwich Farrelly says it has ‘numerous targeted’ conversations about potential purchases.
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NewsSenior judge predicts AI will transform the role of experts
Sir Keith Lindblom reassures expert witnesses they will not be made redundant by new technology.
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NewsIn depth: MoJ mulls 'moving the dial' on compulsory mediation
As new measures are introduced for small claims, the MoJ is considering mandatory referral to mediation in higher-value cases