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NewsNew insurer enters PII market aiming for specialist firms
Pelican Underwriting Management Ltd will offer £5m limits and initially target firms with one to five partners.
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NewsLord chancellor loses challenge to ruling on fast-track asylum process
Detained fast-track system ‘systemically unfair and unjust’ to asylum seekers, Court of Appeal rules.
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Bar Council leader raises concerns over ABS entities
Alistair MacDonald QC says there are still unanswered questions on alternative business structures and if they should be permitted at the bar.
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NewsFirms under scrutiny over anti-money laundering
Reports about potential breaches of anti-money laundering rules continue to rise, with 184 in the last year.
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NewsSolicitors ‘in denial’ about threat from accountants
Analyst says 750 accountancy firms could join market to offer probate services.
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NewsAppeal court allows prisoner legal aid challenge
Howard League of Penal Reform and Prisoners’ Advice Service say system is ‘inherently unfair’.
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NewsLegal aid tender process reopens for two areas
Agency seeks new bids for areas that did not attract enough interest first time round.
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NewsDisgruntled High Court judge leaves case with parting shot for BA
Judge Peter Smith claims airline deliberately left behind his and a planeload of passengers’ luggage in a bid ‘to maximise profits’.
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NewsSRA chief urges caution over legal regulation reform
Statement comes after both the justice secretary and oversight regulator suggested change may be necessary.
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NewsDaughter’s £164k will victory ‘consistent with law’, say experts
Court of Appeal awards a woman money from her mother’s estate after she was expressly excluded from the will.
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NewsFirm fined for related business disclosure lapse
Freeman Harris referred clients to a medical-reporting company owned by a partner.
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NewsAction day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action
Regulator concerned solicitors following new protocol for action may not be acting in clients’ best interests.
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NewsAction day 27: barristers officially join legal aid boycott
Solicitors’ boycott against government’s fee cuts changes direction as action targeted at Crown court work.
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News‘Compelling case’ for reforming regulation – LSB
Super-regulator sets out legislative options for shakeup of Legal Services Act.
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News‘Cab rank’: barristers allowed to refuse work from solicitors
Changes mean solicitors believed to pose an ‘unacceptable’ credit risk will not be able to call on the time-honoured rule.
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News‘Unlawful’ civil legal aid safety net scheme widened
Ministry of Justice amends scope of civil legal aid exceptional case funding – even though the scheme was lambasted by a High Court judge.
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NewsSlater and Gordon shares dip as key Quindell contract set to end
Agreement with insurance giant set to finish later this year, Slaters says in surprise announcement.
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News‘Draconian’ sanctions based on Mitchell are overturned
Court of Appeal has overturned a decision to impose heavy sanctions on a law firm for missing cost deadlines.
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NewsGovernment ‘selling justice like a commodity’ with fee rises
Measures designed to generate an estimated £48m a year in additional income were announced as parliament closed for summer.
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NewsItaly’s civil justice reforms welcomed by UK solicitors
The government programme of reform includes measures aimed at increasing the efficiency of the courts and cutting the backlog of cases.