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NewsSolicitors encourage late guilty pleas to earn more, bar tells Leveson review
Criminal Bar Association says fees for cracked and effective trials should be more closely aligned to destroy 'perverse incentive'.
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News‘Excessive and perverse’ £10,000 tribunal award cut on appeal
Employment Appeal Tribunal finds ‘limited scope of unlawful behaviour’ meant compensation awarded should be reduced by 80%.
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NewsDentons appeal looks to Beckwith and Leigh Day precedents
Global firm says Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal's approach did ‘not undermine’ money laundering legislation or send ‘wrong message’ to the profession.
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NewsNew London committee could foster 'holistic approach' to commercial disputes, says LCJ
Mediation, arbitration and litigation must complement each other in a ‘coherent ecosystem’, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill suggests.
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NewsTaylor Wessing's top earner gets 66% rise to £150,000 a week
Highest-paid LLP member drew £7,750,000 last year, newly filed accounts show.
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NewsJudge’s 'trenchant' dishonesty ruling was wrong, High Court finds
Ruling also highly critical of ‘slapdash’ approach of claimant solicitors to running personal injury cases.
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News'You were lazy', law firm boss tells ex-partner at tribunal
Former head of employment at national firm retorts that he was ‘set up to fail’, as pair cross swords at ET.
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NewsSRA admits 'teething problems' with super-exam as key target is missed
Regulator believes qualifying examination has been a success, but concedes there are 'hearts and minds to win'.
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NewsSupreme Court dismisses father's habeas corpus care order challenge
Doctrine would apply only in 'extreme or unusual circumstances amounting to the unauthorised detention of a child'.
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NewsRegulator appeals tribunal’s dismissal of Dentons AML charges
High Court hears regulator is appealing last year’s Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal decision on two grounds.
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NewsCivil Justice Council extends deadline for funding review
Extension to 3 March will not delay publication of report into litigation funding sector.
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NewsGovernment lawyers 'acted oppressively' in immigration case, High Court hears
Home secretary and solicitors made ‘untrue and misleading statements’, judge rules in illegal detention case.
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NewsSRA to take no action on 'textbook SLAPP' complaint
Firm did not know that libel claim brought by Russian mercenary group founder was based on lies.
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NewsHigh Court backs solicitors in legal aid appeals
Both firms appealed against the decision of the determining officer at the Legal Aid Agency over criminal trials in which they had acted.
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NewsFormer head of employment takes firm to tribunal over partnership dispute
Salaried partner claims he was unfairly dismissed from national firm.
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NewsPost Office prosecutions set to begin this summer, says SRA
Groundwork has been carried out while the Post Office Inquiry team prepares landmark report.
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NewsFormer law firm partner ‘should have known better’ in trusts breach, CoA rules
Two solicitors and a former tax inspector disregarded the interests of the beneficiaries in a number of transactions.
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NewsUS actor’s ‘council tax illegal’ claim thrown out by High Court
Mercer Boffey emphasised ‘the absolute right in every Englishman’ to enjoy his propery without any control or diminution.
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NewsWe are not politically biased, says CBA - after featuring in Jenrick segment for GB News
Shadow justice secretary spoke to representative body about court backlog as part of an investigation for news channel GB news.
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NewsParole Board 'unfair' to cut prisoner's hearing because of solicitor's late arrival
High Court rules the realistic length of the hearing had been reduced from three hours plus discussion time to two hours.