Latest news – Page 254
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NewsConsumer panel calls for standard client information
Regulators urged to do more to ensure the 'spirit and intentions' of rules on prices and complaints procedures.
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NewsAll change at top of Manchester firm as stalwarts prepare exit
New management team moves in to take the reins at JMW Solicitors.
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NewsImmigration trainer defends contract after Braverman orders review
Two of the directors are members of chambers that challenged Home Office's Rwanda removals policy.
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NewsOne in four PI firms out of whiplash work as market contracts
A dozen firms are now estimated to control two thirds of the low-value RTA market.
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NewsUS lawyer joins with English barristers to tap group litigation market
New firm says English legal profession has much to learn from how US lawyers run group cases.
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NewsJudges presiding over 'institutionally racist' justice system - report
Over half of 373 legal professionals said they witnessed at least one judge acting in a racially biased way.
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NewsConstruction of London mega-court begins
Justice secretary Brandon Lewis says development 'represents vision of how justice will work in future'.
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NewsSolicitors will benefit from legal aid reforms, Lewis insists
Lord chancellor defiant after being grilled by opposition MPs on solicitors' fees.
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NewsFirm sues trade press over article suggesting dishonesty
Judge finds Insurance Times articles on credit hire to be defamatory at common law.
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NewsInsurers claim win in landmark Covid cases - but so does Greggs
High Court rejects argument that payouts should be limited to 'single occurence' of pandemic disruption. But insurers remain bullish over compensation for aggregate losses.
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NewsThousands more claimants join Woodford fund action
Law firm says it has the financial muscle and book of claimants to make group litigation viable.
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NewsLegal aid eligibility to be widened for people 'at risk' - eventually
Secondary legislation laid to introduce extra support for domestic abuse victims and tenants facing eviction.
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NewsMPs call for specialised economic crime courts
Justice committee also backs creation of 'failure to prevent' offence.
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NewsCrack cases quicker to reduce backlog, senior presiding judge suggests
Lord Justice Edis suggests that cases with likely guilty pleas could be brought forward by the listing officer and dealt with in one go.
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NewsIran: Law Society calls for halt in lawyer detentions
Lawyers are being violently arrested, transported to prisons and ill-treated, Chancery Lane says.
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NewsDisabled junior lawyer awarded £23,000 over terminated recruitment
Employment tribunal finds that start-up law firm damaged newly-qualified solicitor’s confidence by ending recruitment process.
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NewsParalegal speaks of journey from brain injury to blossoming career
Graduate starts new role after coming back from the brink to make a remarkable recovery.
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NewsHugh James swoops for north-west PI firm
Potter Rees Dolan acquisition adds £7m in revenues to top-100 outfit.
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News'Fight or die': solicitors handed strategy for legal aid action
Former Criminal Bar Association secretary says commercial silk should be instructed to review ‘unfair’ government contract.
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NewsBaby loss campaigning solicitor ramps up fight for statutory paid leave
Solicitor secures a 10-minute bill in parliament and HR policies being re-drafted across the profession.