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NewsOnline probate forms mandatory for solicitors from next month
Statutory instrument laid today will apply to majority of probate cases.
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NewsQualified solicitor, 41, loses battle for financial support from parents
Claimant had urged court not to abandon him to the ‘capricious’ decisions of his parents.
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NewsCosts ruling opens way for uplift on CoP guideline hourly rates
Judgment hailed as providing reassurance for people worried about survival of practice.
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NewsLawyers can break new self-isolation rules to go to court
People participating in legal proceedings are exempt from new legal duty to self-isolate.
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NewsBar sets could move online post-coronavirus, says QC
Lockdown has ‘made people realise how little they in fact used or needed the traditional chambers model’.
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NewsCourt service tackles jump in probate applications
Around 2,000 more applications for grants of probate were received in August than pre-coronavirus.
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NewsSeparated parents from deprived areas going to court in Wales
Landmark research sheds light on families involved in private law proceedings.
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NewsManchester lawyers on alert after positive Covid-19 test
Court staff member contracts coronavirus, prompting message for anyone in the building in the past two weeks.
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NewsJudge tells lawyers: Stop wasting our time with trivial applications
Bristol family judge says parties not adhering to his warning will be criticised and sanctioned.
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NewsSlater and Gordon kicks off ‘aggressive’ growth plan with PI acquisition
Firm says it has made ‘immediate and significant’ expansion of its business following a 16-fold rise in profits.
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NewsInce lays off 50 staff and suspends dividend payments
Listed firm also considering scaling back its office space, according to trading update.
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NewsCriminal lawyers vote overwhelmingly against extended operating hours
Women in Criminal Law says practitioners have no more hours left to give.
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NewsGateley profits slip in year of uncertainty
Swift action allowed the business to continue trading profitably through the pandemic.
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NewsFCA prepares for Supreme Court in business interruption action
Regulator files ‘leapfrog’ application in case agreement is not reached by end of tomorrow.
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NewsCPS inspectors identify 'significant room for improvement'
Charging decisions are mainly correct, but quality of legal analysis and timeliness of decision-making could be better.
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NewsCourt allows mother to recover inquest costs as part of PI claim
Case centred around whether liability had been fully admitted before inquest went ahead.
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NewsCity firms snap up ex-ministers for consultancy roles
Geoffrey Cox QC and Baroness Nicky Morgan have joined Withers and Travers Smith respectively.
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NewsCity puts brakes on return to the office
Stephenson Harwood, Hogan Lovells and Eversheds Sutherland have paused their re-entry plans.
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NewsIn-house teams invited to help build dispute-avoidance robot
Machine learning-based tool will sift through corporate data to identify warning signs.
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NewsLawyers step in as Manchester students locked down
Orders issued to students to self-isolate come under legal scrutiny.