Last 3 months headlines – Page 351
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News'Women still face bias,' firms reminded
Anniversary prompts fresh call for firms to tackle barriers stopping women progressing to leadership roles.
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NewsSolicitors encouraged to join bar picket line
London practitioner group says it stands with colleagues at the criminal bar in legal aid fight.
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NewsStonewall sought barrister's removal, tribunal hears
Closing statements clash over campaign group's relationship with Garden Court Chambers.
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News‘Cold and clinical’ lawyers making vulnerable clients’ problem worse
Legal Services Board research finds need for more consistent approach to dealing with vulnerable people.
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NewsWhiplash doctor loses claim that insurers tried to ruin her
Aviva had written to solicitors questioning medical expert’s credentials and ability to practise.
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NewsNews focus: Legal profession finding new ways to treat trauma
A recognition that bearing witness to traumatic events can trigger mental health problems is prompting some law firms to take extra steps to safeguard the wellbeing of their staff.
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NewsBar urges funding to tackle access to justice ‘postcode lottery’
Mark Fenhalls QC says ‘we urgently need a political commitment to fund capacity across the justice system’.
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NewsGerrard dropped by his former firm's solicitors
Former head of white-collar crime was the subject of an excoriating ruling by a High Court judge last month.
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NewsFootball box was a business expense, Axiom fund solicitor tells jurors
Timothy Schools tells court that £45,000 Blackpool FC box was for ‘corporate hospitality’.
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NewsHillsborough investigation still open, says SRA
Solicitors’ regulator looking into potential misconduct almost 10 years after launching inquiry.
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NewsFirms warned over loan advice
SRA continues to investigate complaints relating to firms that arranged client loans from Novitas.
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NewsLiP support service under threat after government cuts funding
Support Through Court must raise £400,000 or face closing some of its regional doors.
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NewsCourts ready to go remote as rail strikes loom
Cases may be moved online or adjourned if lawyers and other court staff cannot make it in.
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NewsLitigation funders’ warchest reaches new record
Businesses are on the hunt for new cross-border class actions for investments.
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NewsBarristers prepare to walk out over legal aid fees
Hundreds of barristers have voted to participate in 'days of action' as well as to refuse returned cases and new instructions.
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NewsDebating equality: student Pride moot
In the 1920s, the Gazette and Solicitors Journal routinely reported the results of law’s debating societies and student mooting competitions – a tradition that sadly ceased at some point.
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NewsAxiom trial: fund ‘set up to fill black hole’
Solicitor denies charge of dishonestly funnelling nearly £20m of investors’ money from a legal financing fund.
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NewsCriminal legal aid fees will increase 'by end of September'
Justice minister James Cartlidge tells Gazette statutory legislation will hopefully be laid before 21 July.
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NewsTV judge calls for social media responses to government attacks
Rob Rinder says statements should be ready as soon as it appears lawyers are being scapegoated.
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NewsAssange vows to appeal as Patel approves extradition
The Wikileaks founder, 50, faces US trial over the publication of leaked military documents a decade ago.