Headlines – Page 227
-
NewsLegal aid eligibility to be widened for people 'at risk' - eventually
Secondary legislation laid to introduce extra support for domestic abuse victims and tenants facing eviction.
-
NewsMPs call for specialised economic crime courts
Justice committee also backs creation of 'failure to prevent' offence.
-
NewsCrack cases quicker to reduce backlog, senior presiding judge suggests
Lord Justice Edis suggests that cases with likely guilty pleas could be brought forward by the listing officer and dealt with in one go.
-
NewsSolicitor issued ‘unjustified’ £250k bill to vulnerable widow client
Owner of Ilford firm took advantage of client through commission fees and excessive storage costs.
-
NewsIran: Law Society calls for halt in lawyer detentions
Lawyers are being violently arrested, transported to prisons and ill-treated, Chancery Lane says.
-
NewsDisabled junior lawyer awarded £23,000 over terminated recruitment
Employment tribunal finds that start-up law firm damaged newly-qualified solicitor’s confidence by ending recruitment process.
-
NewsParalegal speaks of journey from brain injury to blossoming career
Graduate starts new role after coming back from the brink to make a remarkable recovery.
-
News‘Privileged’ legal sector escapes AML rules, campaign group claims
Spotlight on Corruption calls for bigger role for SRA as MPs debate giving regulator unlimited fining powers.
-
NewsNews focus: Outgoing Society president reflects on a groundbreaking tenure
‘We are the fourth emergency service, keeping the wheels of justice turning’, says the Law Society’s longest-serving president.
-
NewsNews focus: 'Economic chaos' - should law firms be worried?
Law firms are insulated from economic shockwaves – until banks, other lenders and investors get cold feet. And profitable areas of work such as M&As could be hit as corporate clients retrench.
-
NewsHugh James swoops for north-west PI firm
Potter Rees Dolan acquisition adds £7m in revenues to top-100 outfit.
-
News'Fight or die': solicitors handed strategy for legal aid action
Former Criminal Bar Association secretary says commercial silk should be instructed to review ‘unfair’ government contract.
-
NewsBaby loss campaigning solicitor ramps up fight for statutory paid leave
Solicitor secures a 10-minute bill in parliament and HR policies being re-drafted across the profession.
-
NewsMPs clamour to toughen new economic crime bill
Law Society repeats its concerns about new unlimited fining power for the SRA.
-
NewsWeinstein whistleblower: ‘nothing has changed’ on NDA rules
Zelda Perkins says her biggest problems started ‘the moment I was in a room with a lawyer’.
-
NewsCleared solicitor says £43k personal costs bill is 'grossly unfair'
Maya Nisa-Zaman, who owns Birmingham firm MZ Law Solicitors, says two-year SRA investigation has put her in debt.
-
NewsTreat overseas register regime 'like AML compliance with bells on', solicitors told
Verification process for information submitted to register of overseas entities discussed at Law Society conference.
-
NewsCity firms publicly pledge to treat legal apprentices equally
Norton Rose Fulbright says people must be recruited and promoted based on talent and merit alone.
-
NewsEmailed invoice was valid, judge tells non-paying client
Court rules in favour of firm and gives welcome relief on the issue of invoices sent by email.
-
NewsLegislation paves the way for electronic trade documents
Electronic Trade Documents Bill will put digital trade documents on the same legal footing as their paper-based equivalents.