Last 3 months headlines – Page 25
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NewsPost Office victims' compensation battle 'worse than original injustice'
Victims’ commissioner Baroness Newlove has written to the government.
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NewsSolicitor judge reappointed as senior judicial commissioner
Judicial Appointments Commission announces the year-long reappointment of The Honourable Mr Justice Adam Johnson.
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NewsSRA sorrows come not in single (s)pies
History repeated itself at the SRA’s compliance conference. As tragedy or farce. You be the judge.
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NewsSociety welcomes renters' rights legislation
Measure 'helps level the playing field between tenants and landlords', Chancery Lane says.
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NewsFormer trader Hayes returns to court seeking $400m in damages
Exonerated Tom Hayes, who filed a claim for malicious prosecution against his former employer UBS, is seeking a jury trial in the United States.
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NewsFirm boss struck off for taking client money and issuing bad cheques
Immigration firm sole principal who misappropriated £160,000 admits all allegations against him.
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NewsNo offers to buy ‘Ping your Lawyer’ app which cost millions
LawBit Ltd, the company behind Lawbite, is in administration after falling £5.8m into debt.
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NewsNew whistleblowing guidance for in-house lawyers
Latest version of ethics framework considers how a solicitor’s duty to whistleblow could conflict with client confidentiality.
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NewsJustice charity to invite bids for collective action millions
Access to Justice Foundation publishes approach to grant-making following £3.8 million award.
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NewsYou could just have stood up, judge tells barrister 'denied chance to speak'
'No evidence' lawyer, representing his wife over a liability notice to pay council tax, ‘was prevented from standing up'.
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NewsCall to tackle 'aggressive' costs strategies in class actions
Defendants have a 'perverse incentive' to rack up costs, class representatives tell government.
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NewsLost King defamation action settles ahead of trial
Feature film depicted academic as 'smug, unduly dismissive and patronising'.
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News‘Gross exaggeration’: Court slashes firm's costs after 'inexplicable' error
Firm accepted costs were too high but explained this as an ‘inadvertent oversight’.
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NewsData removal fees scrapped for vulnerable people
Victims of violence and domestic abuse involved in debt proceedings will no longer have to pay £318 fee to have personal details removed.
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NewsLAA system was 'extremely high risk' in 2021, MPs told
Ministry of Justice officials say cyber attack was detected as a result of security measures to fix system vulnerability.
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NewsReview of stalking laws follows 'super-complaint'
Exercise will be ‘conducted rapidly to identify any gaps in existing legislation’, Richard Wright KC says.
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NewsJustice unveils blueprint to cut remand population
Legal thinktank says too many people are being unnecessarily jailed before their trial.
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NewsLPP no 'cast iron defence' to solicitors' phones being searched, say police
Lawyer who represented Hamas in proscription case is taking legal action to stop police searching his phone.
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