Last 3 months headlines – Page 319
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NewsSRA granted access to more Post Office documents
Regulator is now a core participant in inquiry as BBC Panorama broadcasts revelations about the role of lawyers.
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NewsLegal aid barriers remain for people with 'trapped capital' - research
Public law specialists say low-income homeowners are still struggling to access legal aid following important High Court win.
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NewsA&O announces bumper promotion round
Elevation of 39 to partnership ‘demonstrates continuing growth ambitions’.
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NewsDefence counsel backs ‘naming and shaming’ oligarch solicitors
War in Ukraine a ‘generational moment’ says media lawyer Adelaide Lopez - who is 'pessimistic' about effective SRA regulation.
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News'We have to fight': legal aid providers could decline work
Solicitors urged to tell representative bodies and practitioner groups what action they are prepared to take.
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NewsEversheds ‘completes transition of Russian operations’
International firm’s Russia team sets up new practice called Birch Legal.
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NewsDPP says ‘shrunk font’ suggestion is ‘inaccurate’
Max Hill QC says ‘neither CPS policy nor practice’ to shrink font to cut costs by lowering page count.
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NewsTake solicitors out of flight delay claims - MPs
Idea of automatic payments put forward as part of report into the future of the aviation industry.
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NewsMinister apologises for misleading parliament on negligence costs
Slip reveals government thinking as NHS litigation costs come under mounting scrutiny.
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NewsMinistry of Justice to be grilled by MPs over legal aid proposals
Justice committee will hear evidence from Law Society, Bar Council, justice minister and legal aid policy director.
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NewsTribunal proceedings could be recorded
Senior judges consider plan amid concern about unfairness to unrepresented parties.
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NewsAdmin hearings outside London in person from next week
In person hearings will be the ‘general default position’ from Tuesday.
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NewsBundles guidance 'highlights litigant-in-person struggles'
Respondent in financial remedies proceedings 'encouraged' to help unrepresented applicant to prepare electronic file.
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NewsUpbeat Irwin Mitchell announces expansion
National firm says offices in Cardiff and Liverpool will open next month.
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NewsIn Focus: Law firm profits leapt 40% in the pandemic - annual benchmarking survey
Annual bellwether reveals that it was not just the City giants that boomed during the pandemic.
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NewsLAA declines to disclose back-up advocacy numbers for 'no returns'
Several solicitors have publicly declared they will not be helping Legal Aid Agency to undermine criminal bar's action.
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NewsThe agony of articles
Michael Simmons begins a short series of reminiscences on life as an (aspiring) solicitor in the 1950s.
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NewsGetting shirty over dress code
When I first started in the law, dress in court was all-important.
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NewsCameras roll in new Depp libel battle
Hollywood star sues ex-wife Amber Heard for $50m while she counterclaims for $100m.
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NewsNews focus: Lifting the lid on judgments
The National Archives online library of court judgments has gone live, with its connections to third-party computer software hailed as ‘a game-changer’.