Last 3 months headlines – Page 679
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NewsCourt backs recoverability of agency fees in PI claims
Judge allows recovery of ‘reasonable and proportionate’ cost of obtaining records.
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NewsLSB gives green light to bar training reforms
Memorandum of Understanding between Bar Standards Board and Inns of Court set to be agreed.
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NewsPwC and King's College London join forces in latest 'student lawyers' initiative
Advice clinic will be open one day a week linking law students with PwC lawyers.
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NewsCompensation boost for crime victims who lived with attacker
Ministry of Justice lays down statutory instrument to scrap 'same-roof' rule.
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Listed PI firm owner upbeat about driving away from RTA claims
NewLaw parent company posts bullish financial results but dividend payout will be unchanged.
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NewsMoJ urged to 'march forward fast' as Labour strengthens legal aid commitment
Practitioners and MPs tell justice minister Lucy Frazer QC what they think about the LASPO review.
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Partnership model declines in growing legal services market
Annual snapshot shows UK legal services sector generated £35.1bn in 2018, 6.3% up on previous year.
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News'Pathological litigation': Court plea to rein in epic dispute between warring solicitors
‘Shameful waste of time and money’ has left lawyers’ reputations ‘in tatters’, says judge.
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News'We refuse to be silenced': MoJ urged to reconsider legal aid for inquests
Charity heads to parliament to make the case for automatic non-means tested public funding.
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NewsChild witnesses struggling to remember details after lengthy waits
Young people are being cross-examined after waiting as long as two years for case to get to court, children's charity says.
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NewsFirm boss 'numb and sick' at novice solicitor's £13k fraud
Gregory Davies had client money paid into his own account and diverted funds from deceased woman’s estate.
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NewsLawyers face new duties to keep litigants in person informed
Part 39 of civil procedure rules likely to be changed by statutory instrument from 6 April.
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NewsHogan Lovells reports rise for equity partners
Profit per equity partner increases by 4% on revenue marginallly up on 2017.
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NewsQualitySolicitors pioneer goes under at nearly 250 years old
Administrators called in to handle affairs of Brighton firm Howlett Clarke.
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NewsDentons fails to strike out negligence claim
Master Shuman also criticises approach to produce further evidence.
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NewsCentralisation shifts remand hearings to next county
Shropshire advocates group calls for policy change after HM Courts & Tribunals Service apologises for 'wrong data'.
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Property solicitor jailed for £60,000 fraud
Lawyer and her husband are jailed after convictions relating to a Newcastle takeaway investment.
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NewsSimpson Millar saviour lifts another firm out of creditor arrangement
Doorway Capital invests in St Helens firm which had been in partnership voluntary arrangement.
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NewsJudge ignores family commitment pleas to demand application
Criminal bar chief says representative bodies will draft their own protocol for reasonable working hours if they have to.
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NewsLydia's flower power
Personal injury project manager Lydia Nobrega holds the title of most productive poppy maker.