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NewsQualitySolicitors cuts jobs as income falls and law firms quit
Annual report says company has platform for future growth - despite liabilities exceeding assets by £713,475.
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NewsClifford Chance elite 13 share £16m
Top partners cash as magic circle firm reports 8% increase in profits.
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NewsMoJ put on notice by information commissioner
Unprecedented enforcement notice served after delays in handling ‘large number’ of subject-access requests.
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NewsSlater and Gordon announces new era after cutting Australian ties
New chief executive appointed after business is recapitalised under new hedge fund owner.
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NewsNew Year honours for solicitors
Education legal chief and former chief magistrate awarded CBEs.
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NewsLand Registry to publish error rates of top conveyancers
Open data scheme could name high volume customers - along with percentage of applications needing further work.
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NewsUnduly lenient sentence scheme extended for nine offences
Scheme gives anyone the power to ask the attorney general to review a sentence for referral to the Court of Appeal.
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NewsGovernment mulls county court judgment shakeup
Consultation paper says unresolved debts can have major impact on credit ratings.
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NewsSupreme Court to hear appeal on case which left insurers 'in limbo'
Permission to appeal is granted in claim where driver was not identified.
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NewsWhistleblowing DJ vows to fight on at Supreme Court
Former solicitor Claire Gilham is seeking the same legal protections as ’workers’ in her battle for redress after raising concerns about the courts system.
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Change your stripes: Partnership model needs a rethink, says Zebra Project legal chief
Taylor Vinters scheme will canvass business leaders and organisations on how to adapt for the future.
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NewsSecondment scheme builds links with Africa's top legal talent
Pioneering legal charity International Lawyers for Africa has opened the selection process for a unique network-building scheme, which offers African practitioners a three-month secondment at international firms based in London, Paris and Dubai. The Flagship Programme has so far trained 170 lawyers from 20 jurisdictions - including some where the ...
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AML quango part-funded by lawyers set for January launch
Concerns raised over running costs of new body.
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NewsLaw firms are keeping solicitors off the bench, MoJ admits
Government vows to do more to address disparity between barristers and non-barristers becoming judges.
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NewsNew appointment for Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
House of Lords Commissioner for Standards and former Law Society President, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff CBE, has been appointed to the members’ advisory board of mutual Wesleyan. The board was established in 2005 to ensure that the voices of Wesleyan’s members and its professional customers are represented at the highest level. ...
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Firm builds closer barrister links with pupillage scheme
Pepperells says clients increasingly like to have all services under one roof.
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NewsNew-build leaseholds to be outlawed
Government announces measures to end unfair and abusive practices within the leasehold system.
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NewsNames are revealed of five solicitors taking silk
Successful applicants among 119 new QC appointments announced today.
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NewsCPS reveals reasons for dismissing 15 lawyers
MPs told of sickness absence, gross misconduct, negligence and criminal conviction.
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NewsFalse claims doctor ordered to pay back £183k
London medic had invoiced for physiotherapy sessions from individual who did not exist.