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NewsEU membership ‘critical’ to UK legal services – City group
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint said UK membership is crucial to its trading strength as it seeks to promote and export legal services.
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NewsBar regulator announces move into entity licensing
Publicly funded barristers will be able to set up structures that enable them to contract directly with the aid agency, taking control over work away from solicitors.
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NewsLegal executive-only firms mooted for next year
Super-regulator consults on granting CILEx entity regulation powers.
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NewsSociety asks Met Police to investigate Wonga over fake firms
Three sets of offences may have been committed, Society says.
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North-west PI firm blames Jackson for closure
Firm organised its winding down through insolvency specialist, with work transferred to five panel firms.
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NewsDavenport Lyons creditors set for talks over £13.4m debt
A joint administrators report for Davenport Lyons, which went into administration in April, has revealed the firm owes millions to unsecured creditors.
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NewsLawyers on Demand poised for Manchester expansion
Business targets companies looking for ways to improve in-house teams.
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NewsGovernment will not legislate to protect whistleblowing partners
Further legislative change will not be necessary to cover members of LLPs, the government says.
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NewsSupreme Court is supreme, says Neuberger
Court's president tells peers the court is not bound by decisions from Strasbourg.
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NewsMoJ figures paint stark picture of aid decline
Official statistics show the volume and cost of cases was falling before the LASPO cuts came in.
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NewsGrenadian wins LPC fight despite murder conviction
Selwyn Strachan had been sentenced to death in 1983 after a widely criticised trial.
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Bristol firms Barcan Woodward and Kirby Sheppard to merge
The merger of the Bristol LLPs is expected to be confirmed in September
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NewsSupreme Court dismisses ‘right to die’ appeal
Majority rules that it is up to parliament to change the law.
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NewsWonga threatened customers with fake law firms
The UK’s biggest payday lender has entered an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority to compensate around 45,000 customers.
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NewsHigh court rules vulnerable defendants deserve equal protection
The court said the refusal by the Ministry of Justice to appoint a registered intermediary for a defendant with Asperger’s syndrome was unfair.
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NewsPEP up 19% at Stephenson Harwood
International firm reports steady growth for 2013/14 in a ’very competive market’.
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NewsAA expands legal services with conveyancing panel
AA Home Conveyancing has been formed in the wake of the creation last December of AA Law.
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News'Lawyers for Yes' group lobbies for Scottish independence
Signatories include veteran QC Ian Hamilton, known for his part in the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.
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NewsPII changes threaten ‘solicitor brand’, says City society
City of London Law Society raises concerns about SRA plans to reduce minimum compulsory PII cover to £500,000.