Last 3 months headlines – Page 1021
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NewsSummit: lawyers vital in sporting successes
GLS told that extraordinary amount of behind-the-scenes work by lawyers helps major events triumph.
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Summit: human rights must be in business DNA – Blair
Cherie Blair QC: employees want to feel good about being employed in a company.
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NewsSummit: law firm income topped £32bn in 2014 – TheCityUK
The legal sector’s strong recovery from the crash continues, but the overall growth rate is down.
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NewsSummit: targeted sanctions ‘a problem for the rule of law’
Former attorney general warns well-meaning governments about ‘making a rod for their own back’.
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NewsSummit: Magna Carta – ‘equality before the law in gestation’
The great charter has a life of its own, says former lord chief justice.
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NewsCourt fees ‘no serious risk’ to legal services – minister
House of Commons committee agrees fees for civil litigation claims over £10,000.
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News‘Named and shamed’ minimum wage offender hits back
South-coast firm maintains it was acting legitimately over apprentice’s pay.
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NewsSummit: arbitration threat ‘illusory’
Magic circle partner decries ‘cultish’ attitudes to arbitration.
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NewsLegendary Scottish solicitor dies
Criminal defence lawyer Joe Beltrami, who became a household name in Scotland, has died aged 83.
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NewsClaimant who missed hearing escapes sanctions
Mr Justice Sweeney said case management decisions are ‘not lightly to be interfered with’.
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NewsSummit: football’s chaotic finances under scrutiny
PFA boss Gordon Taylor tells lawyers at GLS: ‘I recognise rather too many of your faces.’
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NewsSummit: midmarket firms told to cede power to non-lawyers
Firms in the ‘squeezed middle’ must deploy wider expertise to boost profits, conference told.
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NewsSlater and Gordon: no offer yet put to Quindell
Australian firm responds after UK company announces exclusivity extension.
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NewsSummit: I'm proud of you, Grayling tells sector
Lord chancellor promises to do everything he can to help legal sector to thrive.
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NewsSummit: rights should apply online as well as off – EU justice chief
New legislation should give consumers ‘more control and more choice’ EU justice commissioner tells Global Law Summit.
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NewsBarrister disbarred for practising without valid PC
Jonathan Oultram practised as a barrister from March 2013 to January 2014 despite not being properly authorised to do so.
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NewsSummit: dissenters rally at Westminster
Not the Global Law Summit condemns ‘very poor’ lord chancellor.
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NewsSummit: no change is seldom an option, says Grayling
Embattled lord chancellor says that challenges are driven by ‘economic reality’.
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NewsGrayling faces Magna Carta challenge to court fee hikes
Proposals tantamount to ‘selling justice’, contrary to the principles of 1215, Law Society says in pre-action protocol letter.