Last 3 months headlines – Page 154
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NewsPost Office solicitor knew of IT flaw before criminal trial, inquiry hears
Rob Wilson was informed about discrepancy in 40 branches but did not disclose issue to defence.
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NewsInn approves aspiring barrister facing criminal charges over humanitarian work
Inns Conduct Committee had to determine if the lawyer-to-be could be admitted as a student member in order to complete the bar course.
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News‘I will get there’: Solicitor who had stroke at 26 easing back into the law
Junior practitioner thought she was suffering a headache in 2020 but scans showed she had developed blood clots on the brain.
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NewsClaimant firms hail 'turbo charge' for dieselgate hearings
2024 'will be a year of reckoning for any manufacturer that cheated emissions tests', group litigation leader says.
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NewsSolicitor’s indefinite suspension lifted after 15 years
Wales property specialist says his desire to get back into the profession had been 'reawakened'.
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NewsSolicitor banned for a year for sexual touching of paralegal
Solicitor, then 53, also rubbed 21-year-old on the shoulders once or twice a day, tribunal hears.
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News'Degrading and demoralising': High Court hears evidence from criminal legal aid solicitors
Criminal Law Solicitors' Association and London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association are interested parties in Law Society legal challenge.
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NewsMoJ ‘actively considering’ wider response to PACCAR ruling
Government 'assessing the impact' of Supreme Court's judgment and considering options for non-CAT proceedings, minister reveals.
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NewsPost Office investigator dismissed victims as ‘crooks’, inquiry hears
Victim had insisted on his innocence but was told in interview he was ‘up to no good’.
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NewsSDT halves SRA’s costs bill in solicitor’s withdrawn application
Tribunal judgment describes the SRA’s claim for costs as ‘excessive’ before determining a more ‘proportionate and reasonable’ figure.
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NewsWomen make up 37% of law firm partners, new SRA figures show
Slow improvement in racial and gender diversity continues, according to statistics from the SRA’s biennial collection of diversity data.
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NewsUniversity's bar course to remain on hold despite 'some progress'
Bar course at the University of Hertfordshire will now be deferred until all BSB’s required changes are ‘implemented and embedded’.
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NewsLSB pledges to ‘step up’ oversight of regulators
Several areas for improvement will be set out in assessment to be published by the oversight regulator next month.
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NewsSolicitors will not see £16m for police station work anytime soon, High Court hears
Law Society's lawyers say process for distributing extra cash - initially set aside for training grants, PDS expansion and LGFS reform - could take at least a year.
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NewsMoJ to move 50 civil service jobs to Wales
Wrexham is the main Welsh beneficiary of the latest acceleration in the Places for Growth relocation programme.
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NewsMother’s fundraising page in family case unlawful, judge rules
Judge criticises mother’s GoFundMe page as a ‘serious error of judgement’ which ‘was irresponsible, unreasonable and unlawful’.
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NewsTributes paid to 'exceptional' former Linklaters chief
Robert Elliott, former senior partner and chair of the magic circle firm, has died at 71.
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NewsPost Office was told to report three of its lawyers to SRA
External report cited potential issues over 'inadequate investigation' and 'negligent decision-making'.
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NewsCriminal Cases Review Commission first in posthumous referral over Post Office convictions
Post Office workers’ convictions referred despite ‘no current legislation which expressly allows posthumous appeals from magistrates' court to Crown court’.
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NewsLobby group demands regulation of ‘no win, no fee’ term
Report by 'Fair Civil Justice' suggests clients have no idea they may be taking on a costs risk.