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NewsMoJ viewing probate progress through 'rose-tinted spectacles'
Solicitors point to cases more than a year old, adding that delays can be costly for grieving families.
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NewsCompetition Appeal Tribunal urged to approve £200m Mastercard settlement
Litigation funder in Walter Merricks v Mastercard opposes deal, alleging that it amounts to 'capitulation'.
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NewsFormer junior lawyer appeals strike-off over backdated trust deed
Jack Grunhut, admitted as a solicitor in 2019, argued that his conduct arose from inexperience and lack of supervision.
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NewsSupreme Court gives ‘welcome confirmation’ on Insolvency Act
Judgment ‘puts paid to an argument that would have given recalcitrant debtors an obvious route to avoid their obligations’.
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NewsMagistrate sanctioned over social media posts on Palestine
Judicial Conduct Investigations Office stresses that magistrates must ‘not comment on matters of controversy’.
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NewsFamily Division president sounds warning over ‘astonishing’ surrogacy
Sir Andrew McFarlane speaks out after ageing couple commissioned babies from overseas clinic without considering children’s welfare.
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NewsAI getting more accurate but lawyers still needed, finds new report
Language model tools score much higher when faced with difficult legal questions.
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NewsMother asks court's permission to 'tell her story' in legal first
Woman 'seeks to advocate on behalf of victims of domestic abuse, helping to educate others', says her barrister Charlotte Proudman.
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News'Deeply caring' solicitor 'blurred lines' between legal work and counselling
Tribunal says solicitor who counsels sex offenders needs time away from profession.
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NewsHMRC rows back on partner tax change which could have hit law firms
Tax authority changed its guidance last year to close potential loophole created by excessive capital contributions.
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NewsFormer Law Society presidents condemn ‘venomous’ attacks on AG
Letter from lawyers to national newspaper warns that media assault on Lord Hermer is doing ‘immense damage’.
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NewsVeteran solicitor lied to hospital to find out about client’s condition
Tribunal ends 50-year career of practitioner who admitted acting dishonestly.
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NewsBid to sink Mastercard settlement opens at Competition Appeal Tribunal
Tribunal is hearing an application for a £200 million collective settlement approval order in long-running case.
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NewsCouncil to pay costs for 'improper' private prosecution
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council offered no evidence in case adjourned three times.
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NewsEmployment tribunal’s miscalculated remedy leads to cut in payout
Oldham-based firm Inaaya Solicitors has now been ordered to pay its former paralegal £39,564 rather than £41,411.78.
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NewsLaw professor with 'profound sense of grievance' banned from courts
Academic had an 'inability to accept defeat' in her long-running dispute with the University of Warwick.
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NewsCMS's head cashier sent money to her own account disguised as 'interest'
Employee stole a 'considerable amount of money' on 124 occasions and took steps to conceal the payments.
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NewsChancery Lane condemns SRA’s client account plans
Law Society responds to SRA consultation on client money and compensation fund.
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NewsThames Water £3bn loan deal did not breach competition law, High Court rules
A group of creditors argued that a competing group was involved in ‘bid rigging’, an allegation dismissed in court.
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NewsConcerns about judicial security at 'all-time high' - LCJ
Lady chief justice reveals she has written to prime minister over 'unacceptable' exchange in parliament.