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NewsBitcoin money launderer sentenced to 80 months in prison
Attempts to buy multi-million-pound property in London were thwarted by Mishcon de Reya’s ‘know your client’ questions.
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NewsElection ‘wash-up’ latest: Leasehold reform bill set to pass
Legislation to reform leasehold system likely to go through - but select committees abort inquiries into probate, the county court, and home buying and selling.
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NewsRefusenik solicitor cannot be forced to attend Post Office Inquiry
Former GC Jane MacLeod has provided written statement but will not travel to UK to give oral evidence.
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NewsCity firm apologises to court for compromising witness evidence
Pennington Manches Cooper ’proposed amendments to experts’ statement it was not permitted to make’.
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NewsPaula Vennells: I didn’t want my lawyer to sacrifice her integrity
Former chief executive ‘genuinely very sorry’ for remark about general counsel.
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NewsCrown court backlog target 'no longer achievable', says public spending watchdog
National Audit Office says MoJ needs to work closely with other parts of criminal justice system to understand bigger picture.
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NewsNew chief executive for Legal Services Board
Craig Westwood is currently director of policy and comms at the Electoral Commission.
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NewsSeabed where Bibby Stockholm moored is not 'land', court rules
Local mayor fails with claim arguing controversial barge should be subject to planning permission.
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NewsGeneral election ‘wash-up’: legislation mired in uncertainty
Other important business affecting lawyers also up in the air - as the Law Society concedes legal aid reform set to be 'kicked into the long grass'.
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NewsFormer solicitor Soophia Khan returns to prison for contempt
No ‘stay of execution’ in long-running legal battle with SRA over missing documents, Court of Appeal rules.
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NewsPost Office live: Vennells faces questions on lawyer integrity and PR spin
Former chief executive from 2012 to 2019 makes her second appearance before the public inquiry, with questions about her top lawyers set to feature.
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NewsMy lawyers didn’t show me key reports, Vennells tells inquiry
Former chief executive also claims to have not known for five years about prosecutions.
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NewsFormer City traders set to take legal fight to Supreme Court
Tom Hayes, jailed for rate-rigging, calls for UK legal system to 'align with the rest of the world' and for 'these miscarriages of justice to be corrected.'
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NewsCivil legal aid crisis: Family provider spends £40k a year to triage enquiries
Law Society calls on government to use the study to set fees at a realistic and sustainable level.
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NewsMagistrate given formal advice over ‘untruth’ about fellow magistrates
Complaint was made to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office that the magistrate had spread a ‘lie’.
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NewsReceptionist who couldn’t say law firm’s name loses at tribunal
Temporary receptionist ‘acted unreasonably’ in pursuing employment claims against Wykeham-Hurford Sheppard & Son.
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NewsHigh Court finds anti-protest legislation unlawful
Lord Justice Green and Mr Justice Kerr uphold two of campaign group Liberty’s four grounds of legal challenge against government.
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NewsEmployment tribunal hearings delayed to 2026
Targets not being met for recruiting judges to handle huge backlog of cases.
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NewsSanctions bite as UK courts lose out on Russian cases
London's international appeal remains strong, with record numbers of foreign litigants.
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NewsPost Office live: Paula Vennells 'did not know' her organisation prosecuted people
Paula Vennells, chief executive of Post Office Ltd from 2012 to 2019, makes her long-awaited appearance before the public inquiry, for the first of three days of questioning.