Last 3 months headlines – Page 202
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NewsMPs criticise HMCTS for 'burning through' £1.3bn court reform budget
Damning report from public accounts committee reveals only £120m left but programme nowhere near complete.
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NewsDozens of axed Metamorph staff take claims to tribunal
Claimants submit that correct redundancy procedures were not followed.
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NewsClients search for new conveyancers as firm shuts doors
Headcount at Alexander Grace Law had more than doubled at the start of this decade but business is now gone.
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NewsRetired judges 'should get a practising certificate' before returning - report
Academic report suggests post-retirement legal services work should be regulated.
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NewsFormer solicitor asks appeal court to 'have mercy' over strike-off
'We cannot unpick 28 years of history,' master of the rolls tells Farid El Diwany.
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NewsLegal aid firm to 'wind down operations' after 24 years
Founder Nicola Mackintosh says low rates, rising overheads and government bureaucracy have made recruitment and retention impossible.
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NewsRwanda row: government defeated in Court of Appeal
Lord chief justice says removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda will be unlawful unless deficiencies in asylum process are corrected.
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NewsShow must go on as court decides on lawyer ban
Madison Square Garden is fined over 'Adverse Attorney Policy'.
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NewsSolicitor loses discrimination claim against SRA over PC restrictions
Claimant had ‘genuine and strong belief’ but had not proved his case, rules tribunal.
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NewsSupreme Court rules in 'death ends everything' divorce case
Wife's estate plans to 'continue fight' after judges find it is 'not for the courts to distort the meaning of words of relevant statutes to achieve radical reform'.
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NewsAdministrators secure partial sale of collapsed firm network
Law Direct fell into trouble after making a number of rapid acquisitions.
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NewsMemory lane
High Court bench gains its first solicitor and bar chief calls for a royal commission: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsProfession 'sitting on the fence' with lawtech
Practitioners understand the business case - but see few personal advantages to adoption, landmark research shows.
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NewsBooming claims business announces 139% increase in revenue
Winn Group benefitting from handling the whole claims process without third party involvement.
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NewsCourt of Appeal showdown on compulsory mediation
Campaign groups say the precedent set almost 20 years ago in Halsey cannot be upheld.
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NewsDigital assets: call for legislation to protect third category of 'thing'
Common law 'ideally placed' to cope with disputes around cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, Law Commission concludes.
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NewsLaw firm that reported £10m loss calls in administrators
Petition to wind up ABS brought by HM Revenue & Customs weeks before collapse.
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NewsLawyers should never again be dubbed ‘woke’, warns former Treasury Solicitor
Sir Jonathan Jones was offering ‘unsolicited advice’ to present or future governments on the rule of law.
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NewsJudge urges harmonisation of ‘arbitrary’ rules on embargoed draft judgments
High Court judge bemoans the ‘ongoing confusion’ surrounding contempt of court and which judgments can be shared.