Last 3 months headlines – Page 1128
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NewsDWF and HCR announce investments
Harrison Clark Rickerbys and DWF make strategic announcements in the clinical negligence and major injury sectors.
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NewsPioneering landlord eviction service becomes ABS
Landlord Action was created to bypass solicitors and their ‘expensive’ fees.
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NewsBSB hits back in row over costs of challenge to QASA
The bar’s regulator describes as ‘grossly inaccurate’ claims that it is prepared to spend up to £500,000 fighting a judicial review of the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates.
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NewsVara gets legal aid brief following MoJ reshuffle
Portfolio includes judicial policy, civil law and justice, international business, legal services and claims management regulation.
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NewsWomen lawyers paid less than men, survey shows
Overall, 18% of lawyers are from non-white ethnic backgrounds compared with 14% of society as a whole.
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NewsKill off outdated family law, says retiring Coleridge
The private sector should take the lead in developing alternatives to the ‘bloodshed, time and cost’ of court, family judge says.
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NewsIBA 2013: Zimbabwe ‘will re-establish rule of law’ - Mtetwa
Mtetwa calls on all lawyers to be vigilant to even the smallest abuses of human rights.
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NewsSociety tackles ‘false impressions’ over MoJ engagement
Chief executive’s letter to profession defends engagement with the Ministry of Justice.
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NewsUS insurance giant buys ABS
Manchester firm Lewis Hymanson Small is to have its second change of ownership this year.
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NewsIBA 2013: lawyers urged to act on poverty
IBA report highlights threats to poorest in society and role lawyers can play in tackling them.
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NewsIBA 2013: opposition to open jurisdictions 'uncompetitive'
Lawyers ramp up pressure on countries to break down barrier to foreign lawyers.
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NewsIBA 2013: magic circle leader predicts £9bn revenues
Consolidation of the market will continue for some time - but there is a limit, says Allen & Overy chief.
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NewsSRA responds to education review with ‘bonfire of regulations’
’One-size-fits-all’ qualification route to be scrapped.
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NewsLSB calls for all regulators to have lay chairs
Approved regulators are still too close to the profession, the Legal Services Board says.
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NewsCriminal bar gets green light to challenge QASA
The High Court has granted the Criminal Bar Association permission to proceed with its legal challenge to advocacy assessment.
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NewsAlbright start in Boston
IBA 2013 was opened by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
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News175 firms face closure after failing to secure insurance
SRA says 185 firms applied for extended indemnity; 10 have since found cover.
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NewsIBA 2013: ‘Don't treat older lawyers like they're dead,’ says former chief
Firms who force out older partners not making the most of their experience.