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NewsAppeal court sets aside £186k professional negligence claim
Solicitor John Darby had not advised client of a user covenant put in place 22 years before by the neighbours.
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NewsCoA rules in landmark decision on riot damage losses
Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime liable for damages over the interruption of business due to the 2011 riots.
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NewsAppointment for Christina Blacklaws
The former director of Co-operative Legal Services has joined the advisory board of costs consultancy Burcher Jennings.
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NewsCompanies equip compliance officers to see off risks
Some 60% of chief compliance officers say their budgets have increased over the last 12 months.
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NewsBLP financials bounce back
BLP expects strong results for 2013/14 on the back of disappointing financials last year.
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News‘Considerable improvement’ in SRA’s complaint-handling
Cases concerned with the SRA’s complaints-handling have risen by 18% since 2012, but the number upheld has dropped, report says.
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NewsUK ‘wilfully’ ignorant of EU realities, bar conference hears
Europe-wide reforms were described as ‘utterly pointless’ and ‘an assault on democratic values’.
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NewsSRA to drop mandatory 16-hour CPD
Proposals to remove CPD requirement await SRA board approval.
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NewsJackson rules High Court erred over extension
Architect of civil justice reforms says changes not designed to prevent reasonable time extensions.
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NewsAddleshaw Goddard names new chief
John Joyce replaces Paul Devitt to oversee a new strategy at City firm.
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NewsSociety to open web system to all conveyancers
Licensed conveyancers as well as solicitors will be able to use the Conveyancing Portal so long as they pass due diligence tests.
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NewsCosts ABS expands as business booms
A ‘buoyant’ costs market has prompted a hiring spree at one of the biggest costs firms. Just Costs Solicitors, which was granted an ABS licence last year, has expanded its 100-strong team with the addition of 30 solicitors, barristers, costs lawyers and costs drafts personnel, its managing director said ...
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NewsCourts Wi-Fi roll-out timetable ‘slips’
Damian Green said courts in England and Wales are entering a ‘Wi-Fi era’ following the announcement of an additional £75m annual investment.
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NewsSenior judge calls time on conferences
Sir Terence Etherton, chancellor of the High Court, said judges were ‘perplexed’ as to why parties are failing to agree budgets.
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NewsGrayling head-hunts QCs to save fraud trials
Recruitment drive for the Public Defender Service used as an ‘emergency measure’ following protests against fee cuts.
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NewsUS online arbitration service eyes UK
US and Canadian judges could arbitrate remotely on UK disputes if a north American online service takes off across the Atlantic.
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Birmingham lawyer boom
Vacancies registered with recruitment agencies in the first quarter of 2014 were up 49% year-on-year.
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MoJ claims civil courts not damaged by austerity
Senior judges said last week unmeritorious claims are on the rise in the wake of LASPO.
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NewsPakistan lawyers charged over ‘blasphemy’
The arrests came a week after the murder of Rashid Rehman, who was acting for a university lecturer accused of blasphemy, which carries the death penalty in Pakistan.
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IP act gets royal assent
Paves the way for the UK to implement the EU Unified Patent Court Agreement.