Last 3 months headlines – Page 554
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NewsHundreds speak out over LAA decision-making
Legal Aid Practitioners Group wants to get to the bottom of disconnect between lawyers and civil servants.
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News‘Shaking with shock’ – calls for investigation follow Gazette disclosure of secret CPS rape targets
Reactions from lawyers, political leaders and campaigners.
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NewsAppeal court allows contempt proceedings based on pre-action witness statements
Couple had never issued proceedings for substantive relief but will face committal proceedings nonetheless.
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NewsChanges to defence fees are coming, Buckland tells barristers
Proposals on criminal defence fees were meant to be published last month, but have been pushed back to next year, according to the CBA.
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NewsExclusive: ‘perverse incentive’ contributed to slump in rape charges
Pressure to meet 60% conviction target led to cases being dropped by CPS.
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NewsSC judge calls for ‘expert commission’ on algorithms
New body would enforce the principles of 'equity and mercy' Lord Sales tells lawyers.
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NewsLaw students learn the sound of one hand clapping
BPP responds to concerns about well-being with pop-up meditation studios.
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News'Bedroom tax' ruling clarifies tribunal powers
Supreme Court says regulations can be disapplied if not doing so breaches human rights legislation.
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NewsJudge’s ‘intemperate’ language gave appearance of bias
Judge had suggested counsel appearing before him was the organ grinder's monkey.
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NewsBarrister jailed for child sex offences is disbarred
Lee Sowden was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at Leicester Crown Court last year.
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NewsSQE still has a long way to go, says Legal Services Board
The LSB will send the SRA a list of key issues that need to be addressed before it makes its second application.
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NewsForeign Office urged to drop costs ‘threat’ against Harry Dunn family
Family lawyer says Dunn parents are being intimidated to drop claim.
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NewsSRA advocacy proposals ‘add bureaucracy’
Criminal defence practitioners question regulator's involvement.
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NewsDLA Piper partner founds Liverpool start-up
International firm DLA Piper is ‘increasingly subject to conflict issues’, according to Fortuna Law’s founder.
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NewsIBA welcomes Myanmar genocide case
Rohingya action is the first to be brought by a country over issues in another continent that do not directly concern it.
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NewsCrash data middle man ordered to pay insurer £109,000
David Oliver received details that were illegally obtained and sold them on to claims management companies.
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NewsThird of new deputy High Court intake are solicitors
Latest recruits include lawyers from City firm Macfarlanes and DLA Piper.
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NewsSixth formers compete for legal apprenticeship
A senior partner at Kingsley Napley says diversity is an ‘urgent issue’ for City law firms.
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NewsFundamental dishonesty found against non-attending claimant
Trial proceeded on issue of dishonesty after application from insurer of supposedly at-fault driver.
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NewsHMCTS listings meeting scuppered - owing to listings clash
Criminal bar chief was supposed to meet chief executive Susan Acland-Hood today.