Last 3 months headlines – Page 586
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NewsLaw school opens up on pass rate despite tight-lipped SRA
City breaks ranks with other providers over success rate of students taking Legal Practice Course.
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NewsVehicle hire firm accelerates into legal services market
New entity will own personal injury firms NewLaw and Principia Law.
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NewsJustice Week: Poll shows hunger for education
More than half of 18 to 24-year-olds would like to see more emphasis on learning about the law in school.
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NewsJustice Week: Super-regulator indicates shift of focus
The Legal Services Board outlines its new priorities following biggest ever legal needs survey.
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NewsThe problem with experts
Some expert witnesses are lured into giving evidence they live to regret. Others simply find themselves in the wrong case.
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NewsDressing the part
Pinsent Masons is the latest City firm to scrap its stringent corporate dress code.
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NewsNews focus: Campaign to create repository of court judgments
Following last year’s Digital Justice report calling for a shakeup in the publication of court judgments, there is growing awareness of how opening up the corpus of case law could facilitate justice.
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NewsJustice Week: Portraits of justice at Chancery Lane
Farhana and Jamilah’s story is featured in an exhibition to mark the second national Justice Week.
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NewsSpeculation mounts over RTA portal delay
Ministry of Justice believed to be poised to announce postponement of much-vaunted reforms of the handling of whiplash claims.
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NewsWarning over transgender guidance to judges
Lawyers say guidance in Equal Treatment Bench Book fails to highlight conflicts between transgender and women’s rights.
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News‘Misconceived’: ECtHR chief hits back at Sumption over rights
Thesis of Reith lectures on growth of judicial power ’lacks a comprehensive and nuanced understanding’.
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NewsPartner profits up at buoyant Hogan Lovells
Transatlantic firm reports turnover up 10% to £1.76bn.
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NewsFamily judges to take online sexual consent course
A judge was criticised earlier this year for displaying ‘obsolescent’ and ‘outdated’ views on rape.
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NewsSRA urged to reveal law school scores
Regulatory body refuses to disclose pass rates after finding huge discrepancies in performance.
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NewsActive conveyancers at record low
Conveyancing bore the full brunt of political and economic uncertainty in the final quarter of 2019, market tracker shows.
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NewsGoing global: law school offers Chinese course in response to City demand
Durham University has hired seven academics from mainland China and Hong Kong to teach undergraduates and masters students.
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News‘Get doctors in the room for clinical negligence mediation,’ lawyers told
Figures show more cases than ever are going through an alternative dispute resolution process.
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NewsSupreme Court spurns insurers’ appeal over injuries on private land
Judges refuse application for another hearing into the thorny issue of liability for an incident involving uninsured driver.
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NewsSlater and Gordon set to cut fee earner roles in Birmingham
Firm continues nationwide consolidation as it moves towards model of centres of excellence.