Last 3 months headlines – Page 971
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NewsFirm fined for related business disclosure lapse
Freeman Harris referred clients to a medical-reporting company owned by a partner.
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NewsAction day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action
Regulator concerned solicitors following new protocol for action may not be acting in clients’ best interests.
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NewsAction day 27: barristers officially join legal aid boycott
Solicitors’ boycott against government’s fee cuts changes direction as action targeted at Crown court work.
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News‘Compelling case’ for reforming regulation – LSB
Super-regulator sets out legislative options for shakeup of Legal Services Act.
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News‘Cab rank’: barristers allowed to refuse work from solicitors
Changes mean solicitors believed to pose an ‘unacceptable’ credit risk will not be able to call on the time-honoured rule.
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News‘Unlawful’ civil legal aid safety net scheme widened
Ministry of Justice amends scope of civil legal aid exceptional case funding – even though the scheme was lambasted by a High Court judge.
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NewsSlater and Gordon shares dip as key Quindell contract set to end
Agreement with insurance giant set to finish later this year, Slaters says in surprise announcement.
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News‘Draconian’ sanctions based on Mitchell are overturned
Court of Appeal has overturned a decision to impose heavy sanctions on a law firm for missing cost deadlines.
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NewsGovernment ‘selling justice like a commodity’ with fee rises
Measures designed to generate an estimated £48m a year in additional income were announced as parliament closed for summer.
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NewsItaly’s civil justice reforms welcomed by UK solicitors
The government programme of reform includes measures aimed at increasing the efficiency of the courts and cutting the backlog of cases.
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NewsBar takes aim at solicitors in family court advocacy
Two principal branches of the profession clashed last week after the bar called for a review of advocacy in family law.
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CHAPS settlement day extension
The Bank of England has announced it is extending the Clearing House Automated Payment System settlement day to align more closely with the typical business day.
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NewsDead zones
Obiter hesitates to suggest how a coroner might go about boosting a district’s annual death rate by 1,000 or so.
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NewsVisitor attraction
Proceedings in the Supreme Court often disrupted by sandal-clad tourists and associated hubbub.
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NewsMemory lane
Law Society welcomes home secretary’s announcement to end year and a day rule for murder.
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NewsMoriarty takes off from LSB
Chief executive will return to the Civil Aviation Authority as deputy chief executive.