Last 3 months headlines – Page 871
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NewsCJEU will be kept out of new patent regime, legal academics say
EU top court will step in only ‘where matter of EU law’ at issue.
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NewsLitigation funder reports bumper 2016 as market continues to grow
Burford Capital reports operating profits up 61% to £102m.
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NewsDirect Line puts 30 claims handler jobs at risk
Motor insurer responding to rapidly changing small claims environment.
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NewsDLA Piper profits bounce back on slipping revenue
International firm kicks off results season by posting 6% rise in net profits.
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NewsSRA denies abuse of process to discipline fraud victim
Regulator proceeds with two allegations against solicitor who has already been pursued in High Court.
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NewsBusiness courts reorganised in face of international competition
Specialist civil courts to be known as the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales.
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NewsFee cuts ‘will stop junior lawyers earning a living’
MoJ’s proposals will hit people from disadvantaged backgrounds and drive lawyers away from criminal advocacy, JLD says.
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NewsLaw Commission seeks to overhaul deprivation of liberty safeguards
Government told current mental capacity legislation leads to detention without checks.
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NewsBack up your online boasts, barristers told
Guidance from Bar Council says barristers should ensure they back up quotes and testimonies.
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NewsJobs threatened as Minster Law closes home base
Redundancies likely as Yorkshire operation centralises to cut overheads.
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NewsSolicitors feel the pinch in spring budget
Meanwhile, chancellor Philip Hammond announced that he is pressing ahead with penalties for lawyers and accountants who advise on tax avoidance schemes subsequently disallowed by HM Revenue & Customs.
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Women own more than a third of law firms
Figure well ahead of the 21% average for female ownership across small businesses as a whole.
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Thailand corruption probe: SFO keeps its own counsel
Authorities in Thailand opened an investigation into engineering giant Rolls-Royce after the company’s £671m deferred prosecution agreement with the SFO.
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NewsSpeaker loses patience with long-winded lawyers
‘Mr Squeaker’ appears to have another target in his sights: lawyers.
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NewsMemory lane
As in 1918 and 1919, when the police actually went on strike, so now also, when they are demanding the legal right to strike, discontent over their pay is the occasion, as much as the cause, of their threatened rebellion.
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Bolton law firm hit by wasted costs orders
Asons Solicitors has been embroiled in controversy since it emerged that it had received a £300,000 grant from Bolton Council.
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NewsSolicitor escapes jail after headbutting LiP inside Rolls Building
Philip Saunders was caught on CCTV causing actual bodily harm to Mohammad Reza Ghadami.
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News£24,000 damages for Katie Hopkins Twitter libels in ‘serious harm’ test
Media list judge rules that tweets by ‘rent-a-gob’ columnist Katie Hopkins ‘had tendency to cause harm’ to food writer Jack Monroe.