Last 3 months headlines – Page 758
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News'Just say sorry': clients outline bugbears with complaint handling
Consumers are often infuriated by legal providers’ refusal to acknowledge any mistakes, ombudsman claims.
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NewsOnline hub to guide barristers on ethical issues
Ethics & Practice Hub to run alongside existing phone line.
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NewsSupplier debt warning after Just Costs is resurrected
Collapse of a costs firm highlights struggles faced by suppliers.
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NewsNew look Junior Lawyers Division revealed
Committee will be tasked with keeping an eye on issues affecting young lawyers, including the SQE.
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NewsRogue companies suffer £1m loss from MedCo clampdown
Annual report says scheme had to spend disproportionate amount on policing medics and solicitors.
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Bar Conference: New five-year plan for appointing judges
The Judicial Appointments Commission is to publish an unprecedented forward programme for appointing judges in a bid to boost the appeal of the bench to candidates from all backgrounds. The five-year plan, running from 2017-2022, will enable aspiring judges to identify ‘clear pathways’ to office and help candidates decide which ...
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NewsUnion threatens industrial action over HMCTS job cuts
HM Courts & Tribunals Service says it will slash National Compliance and Enforcement Service staff by 60% over the next two years.
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NewsBudget cuts and 'big league' focus mean SFO missing smaller cases
Pinsent Masons analysis of figures show fraud prosecutions falling despite the rise in reported incidents.
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NewsBar Conference: Chambers 'price war' and 'collusion' fears over fee transparency
Barristers and solicitors should be forced to publish prices online, conference hears.
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NewsNational Pro Bono Week: legal chiefs thank profession for 'life-changing' help
Law Society president Joe Egan praises lawyers' public service ethos.
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NewsParadise Papers firm Appleby: We've done nothing wrong
Firm says allegations are a ’patchwork quilt of unrelated allegations with a clear political agenda and movement against offshore’.
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NewsFacing the (extremely) critical masses
Obiter was encouraged to learn that the ‘below-the-line’, ever feisty commentators on the Gazette’s website are not wasting their cyber-breath. In fact, their sometimes witty, often acerbic, musings on legal developments are being picked up far beyond the environs of 113 Chancery Lane. Bigwigs from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the ...
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NewsSRA plans register of disciplinary sanctions
Regulatory body steps up rhetoric of providing information and price publication to the public.
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NewsGoing underground
Most of your colleagues will have a side project or hobby to help them stay sane when they leave the office. Few will go home and make their own coffin. But Sheffield solicitor John Jones is one such person. And he has applied his considerable skills to advising others how ...
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NewsMinister of courts (tennis or law?)
Did you know there was a minister for sport and civil society? Neither did the president of the family division. Listing the alarming number of Whitehall departments responsible for children and families at a Howard League for Penal Reform event last week, Sir James Munby said a recent announcement of ...
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NewsReceiving end of a real wigging
It is always dangerous for old fogies to dive in on today’s quarrels, so I will merely dip a toe. The subject is rude judges who undermine young advocates’ confidence to the extent they are reduced to tears and carry the memory with them for days or weeks. First, just ...
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NewsNews focus: Damage limitation for clinical negligence
Claimant lawyers will cry foul, but politicians and civil servants are starting to talk about tort reform to stem the haemorrhaging of cash in clinical negligence actions.
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NewsGet to grips with GDPR rules, in-house lawyers told
Regulations will come into force in May next year.
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