Last 3 months headlines – Page 114
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NewsBurford hails 'record year' as income surges
CEO describes 2023 as ‘extraordinary’, after listed litigation funder reports a near-2,000% rise in net income.
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NewsRestrictions on national firm staff following principles breaches
Solicitors Regulation Authority’s decisions related to ‘discrete episodes of individual misbehaviour’, Irwin Mitchell says.
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NewsCourt of Appeal hears traders’ cases against rate rigging convictions
Lord Justice Bean, Lord Justice Popplewell and Mr Justice Bryan will be hearing the three-day appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice.
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NewsFrom handwritten law report to AI
Exhibition at Middle Temple Library illustrates the evolution of the law report.
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NewsClarke Willmott pays tribute to 'widely respected' planning lawyer
Colleagues 'devastated' to learn that Neil Baker, who join the firm in 1999, has died.
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NewsJury discharged in Duncan Lewis knife threat trial
The jury sitting in the trial at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court was discharged today.
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NewsMagistrate with a fighting spirit
Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny Bt was, without doubt, a Renaissance man.
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NewsIt’s official: we do have second-class courts
One of the headline ‘modernisation’ wheezes for HMCTS unveiled in the budget was ‘reducing spend on first class post’.
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NewsClaims firm which reported £1m loss bought out by rival
Deal agreed on Tuesday for Simpson Millar to take on the assets and trading name of Novum Law.
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NewsEU’s AI law passes parliamentary hurdle
Measure will outlaw biometric categorisation systems based on sensitive characteristics and untargeted scraping of facial images from CCTV footage.
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News‘Bitcoin inventor’ using courts ‘as a vehicle for fraud’
High Court hears closing submissions in month-long trial over the identity of ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’.
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NewsNews focus: More budget blues for the MoJ
The budget included a £55m boost for family justice, part of a £170m push for non-court resolution. But the profession reacted coolly, as day-to-day justice spending is again set to fall.
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NewsCancer charity unable to fund 44 projects due to probate delays, MPs told
Justice committee takes evidence from charities on financial impact of delays in granting probate.
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NewsSolicitor's jail sentence for stealing client money was 'merciful', appeal court rules
Hugh Lansdell had ‘considerable’ mitigation but Crown court was entitled to impose lengthy sentence.
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NewsConveyancing week: upfront information at heart of new protocol
Parties acting for seller and buyer given 11 recommendations each to speed up transaction and reduce fall-through rates.
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NewsFirm fined £20,000 for inadvertently aiding conveyancing fraud
SRA accepted conduct was not reckless and that the £111,000 paid out had been remedied.
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NewsImmigration sting solicitor’s appeal totally without merit, court rules
Practitioner caught 'red handed' in BBC Radio programme challenged his strike off by Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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NewsSolicitor tells court of death threat from 'horrifying…stone cold' defendant
Receptionist managed to kick a knife away before a solicitor restrained Cavan Medlock, who denies two charges against him, court hears.
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NewsAI will change principles of common law as well as its practice - MR
In his most upbeat speech on the topic yet, Sir Geoffrey Vos says large language model artificial intelligence may become necessary to perform workplace duties.
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NewsSRA seized closed firm’s cash to cover its costs
Liquidators considered legal action against Solicitors Regulation Authority but decided it was too expensive.