Last 3 months headlines – Page 805
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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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NewsBar Conference: We don't accept your constraints, chair tells government
Andrew Langdon QC says treatment of profession ’borders on contempt’.
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NewsLook to Scotland for community sentencing benefits - thinktank
Centre for Justice Innovation says reoffending rates are at an 18-year low across the border.
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Concern for detained Egyptian lawyer
Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy remains in detention after arrest on way to address United Nations - about unlawful detentions.
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News'Conveyancing factories' with inexperienced juniors can delay transactions
Law firm chief executive calls for greater transparency to improve home buying process.
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NewsRegulators can be taken to employment tribunals, Supreme Court rules
Solicitors Regulation Authority supported the General Medical Council in case.
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NewsDeprivation of liberty safeguards scheme 'increasingly unsustainable'
Government's interim response appears to support Law Commission's call to replace 'carousel-like process'.
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NewsNew rules to tackle 'monster' of civil disclosure
Not all cases justify a Rolls-Royce approach, working group behind proposals says.
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NewsInterim statute bills must contain disbursements, court rules
Appeal supports decision that clients must be given adequate information to challenge a law firm’s bill.