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NewsLitigation funder Novitas makes shock exit from the legal market
Departure comes after lender was sanctioned for unfair treatment of client who took out £45,000 loan.
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NewsLord chancellor faces JR over immigration detainees’ legal advice
Detention Action campaign says detainees are at risk of being ‘denied their constitutional right of access to justice’.
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NewsGovernment mulls reforms to essential patent regime
Intellectual Property Office publishes call for views on management of fast-growing sector.
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News'Nuclear option': human rights committee highlights JR danger
Report warns of serious human rights abuses if Judicial Review and Courts Bill abolishes particular legal avenue.
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NewsFormer Spanish king claims immunity from English courts
Juan Carlos I argues he has sovereign immunity despite abdicating in 2014.
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NewsSociety names interim chief executive
Gerry Walsh, former head of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, takes the helm this week.
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NewsSuper-regulator acknowledges that PII costs are driving firms under
Legal Services Board pledges to find ‘possible solutions’ to the hardening professional indemnity insurance market, after the SRA declines to intervene.
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NewsTate viewing platform nuisance case reaches Supreme Court
The art gallery say the appellants are trying to ‘exploit the law of nuisance to let in by the back door a claim that does not belong to the tort’.
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NewsFamily WhatsApp conversation protected under proposed hate crime reforms
Law Commission says 'private conversations' should be excluded from 'stirring up hatred' offences.
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NewsOnline litigant penalised for abuse of process
Defendant counterclaimed for £42,000 after judgment based on intentionally wrong admission.
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NewsCleared lawyer must pay £534,000 defence costs, SDT rules
Tribunal in Liz Ellen case says there is no good reason to deviate from default position of a no costs order.
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NewsSociety welcomes first global services agreement in 24 years
WTO’s Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation commits parties to common standards on information about regulations.
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NewsMinisterial code can be justiciable, High Court rules
A judicial review claim that Boris Johnson misinterpreted the meaning of the word ‘bullying’ is rejected.
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NewsTwo clients sentenced to prison over fees contempt
Omani respondents failed to attend London hearing either in person or by representation.
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NewsCleared lawyer asks for SRA to cover her £534,000 defence costs
Tribunal told that SRA’s prosecution of Liz Ellen was ‘legally and factually flawed’.
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NewsCity watchdog appoints new general counsel
Stephen Braviner Roman, who was a key adviser to the government on Brexit, will join the Financial Conduct Authority in February.
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NewsGovernment primed for new assault on judges - report
Downing Street floats idea of annual 'interpretation bill' to strike out judicial reviews.
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NewsNegligence claim against tax silk ‘classic piece of reverse engineering’
Andrew Thornhill QC is accused of giving negligent advice about film financing schemes in the early 2000s.
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NewsFee concerns over remodelled emergency housing scheme
Law centre solicitor says proposed remuneration does not reflect the actual work that is done.
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NewsNews focus: Pre-charge anonymity - a presumption of privacy
Sir Cliff Richard’s legal battle with the BBC fuelled debate about pre-charge anonymity. Now high-profile cases ZXC and Sicri have highlighted that courts will no longer tolerate invasions of privacy.