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NewsIn depth: Toon barmy - Newcastle's vibrant legal scene
Showcasing a region: Newcastle is a growing hub of increasingly diverse legal services – and opportunities for solicitors.
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NewsSQE marking fiasco: 175 candidates wrongly told they failed exam
Solicitors Regulation Authority 'really disappointed' and conducting review with assessment provider Kaplan.
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NewsMergers announced across the country as firm numbers fall
New round of acquisitions and mergers as firms expand their operations to new geographic regions.
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NewsFirm pledges full support to lawyer over online divorce mistake
Court decision is the kind that makes people run from the profession, Vardags founder says.
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NewsBookkeeper’s bid to lift restriction fails in the SDT
Applicant argued he was not given a fair hearing by the SRA adjudicator.
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News'CILEX is not a representative body', members told at SGM
President tells members they cannot influence how and by whom they are regulated and governed.
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NewsIn depth: Landmark ECtHR climate claims fail but activists hail 'fundamental change'
But have they changed the climate change justice discourse?
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NewsSentencing adjourned for ex-solicitor convicted of fraud following listings mistake
‘Even in the best run organisations occasionally mistakes are made and that, unfortunately, seems to have happened here,’ Old Bailey judge says.
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NewsSRA to be probed over SSB collapse
Legal Services Board broadens scope of inquiry into failure of Axiom Ince.
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News‘I didn’t realise we prosecuted sub-postmasters,’ former Post Office MD admits
Alan Cook tells inquiry he had not realised Post Office had the power to handle theft and false accounting cases.
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NewsExclusive: UK Lawyers for Israel issues fresh riposte over call for sanctions
Six former Supreme Court justices have weighed into the legal argument, three on each side.
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News356 lawtech companies blaze a trail in booming sector
Number of companies soars from 37 in 2002 and sector is on track to attract £2.2bn in annual investment by 2026.
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NewsSRA in hunt for new chair
Recruitment begins for outgoing chair Anna Bradley's replacement at the regulator.
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NewsDivorce order stands after solicitors applied for wrong client
Court rules that couple are no longer married despite firm’s efforts to set aside order.
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NewsSLAPP campaigners call for ‘objective’ test in new law
Current definition involves a 'notoriously difficult, time-intensive, expensive and uncertain process', lawyers and journalists state.
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NewsLying claimant loses out on £600,000
Social media posts by woman who fell from Welsh pier showed a busy social life and little evidence of ongoing disability.
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NewsFirst transgender judge Master McCloud signs off
Emotional valedictory ceremony is held at Royal Courts of Justice after judge decided to step down from role.
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NewsMind your social media manners, dissenting CILEX members warned
Chief executive tells members code of conduct applies to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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NewsLondon firm fined £15k for failing to train staff in AML
SRA concedes no harm was caused but says firm breached regulations for too long.
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NewsSolicitor advising Post Office warned about leaving 'paper trail'
Womble Bond Dickinson partner also said Alan Bates, who led the campaign to expose the Horizon scandal, had a ‘loose relationship’ with the truth.