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NewsProfit dips as turnover rises 9% at Osborne Clarke
Net profit and PEP down 'due to the tougher trading conditions, inflation and the significant but necessary investments we’ve made'.
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NewsFirm considers challenge to unlawful dismissal ruling
Case raises questions over the way duty solicitors are able to switch firms mid-contract.
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NewsNews focus: Law's big bang 'being stymied by regulators'
As a secondary legal finance market evolves, leading industry figures have warned about the potential loss of legal privilege. They also cast doubt on the ability of secondary investors to offer better terms.
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NewsLegal help website faces uncertain future after funding ends
Advicenow provides practical support in areas such as family, housing and employment.
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NewsEx-Debenhams staff still waiting for tribunal to sort redundancy claims
Former employees of the retailer have waited more than three years as the tribunal system creaks.
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NewsInterest on costs due on date of original £38m order, judge finds
High Court says cut-off point for recovery of interest ‘discourages the pursuit of stale claims’.
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NewsGovernment is handing competition regulator a blank cheque, thinktank warns
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill would give CMA 'quasi-legislative' powers to intervene in almost any market.
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NewsMPs criticise HMCTS for 'burning through' £1.3bn court reform budget
Damning report from public accounts committee reveals only £120m left but programme nowhere near complete.
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NewsDozens of axed Metamorph staff take claims to tribunal
Claimants submit that correct redundancy procedures were not followed.
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NewsClients search for new conveyancers as firm shuts doors
Headcount at Alexander Grace Law had more than doubled at the start of this decade but business is now gone.
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NewsRetired judges 'should get a practising certificate' before returning - report
Academic report suggests post-retirement legal services work should be regulated.
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NewsFormer solicitor asks appeal court to 'have mercy' over strike-off
'We cannot unpick 28 years of history,' master of the rolls tells Farid El Diwany.
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NewsLegal aid firm to 'wind down operations' after 24 years
Founder Nicola Mackintosh says low rates, rising overheads and government bureaucracy have made recruitment and retention impossible.
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NewsRwanda row: government defeated in Court of Appeal
Lord chief justice says removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda will be unlawful unless deficiencies in asylum process are corrected.
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NewsSolicitor loses discrimination claim against SRA over PC restrictions
Claimant had ‘genuine and strong belief’ but had not proved his case, rules tribunal.
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NewsSupreme Court rules in 'death ends everything' divorce case
Wife's estate plans to 'continue fight' after judges find it is 'not for the courts to distort the meaning of words of relevant statutes to achieve radical reform'.
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NewsAdministrators secure partial sale of collapsed firm network
Law Direct fell into trouble after making a number of rapid acquisitions.
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NewsProfession 'sitting on the fence' with lawtech
Practitioners understand the business case - but see few personal advantages to adoption, landmark research shows.