Latest news – Page 275
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NewsResolution backs 'one lawyer, two clients' divorce model
Group says time is right to allow couples to make joint application and reduce conflict.
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NewsJudge slams SDT’s ‘sweeping’ anonymity orders
Court hears that firms where accused solicitor worked were not named despite no application being made.
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NewsAttorney general refuses to resign despite calling for PM to go
Suella Braverman also announces she will run to be leader of the Conservative Party.
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NewsMoJ could be sued over refusal to backdate legal aid fee increase
Lawyers acting for Criminal Bar Association say lord chancellor has the power to increase fees.
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NewsLGBT activist removed from tribunal for ‘apparent bias’
Judge rules ‘fair-minded and informed observer could not exclude the possibility of bias’.
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NewsBarristers are threatening to delay justice, says minister
Ministers double down on 'generous' legal aid offer and insist fee increase cannot be backdated.
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NewsSolicitor general and justice minister join wave of resignations
Justice minister Victoria Atkins joins exodus that has put Boris Johnson's premiership in peril.
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NewsKnights sheds conveyancing business to Scottish incomer
Acquisition of Home Property Lawyers secures future of 65 staff.
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NewsGood Law Project wins costs cap in PPE case
Judge also says campaign group arguably has standing after recent judicial comments.
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NewsSolicitors could escalate legal aid action next week
Head of London practitioner group will discuss potential next steps with firms after survey closes later today.
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NewsUK ‘backsliding on human rights’ – Council of Europe
Human rights commissioner says Bill of Rights ‘sends the wrong signal’ to other countries.
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NewsUkraine Bar Association opens to foreign members
For an annual £171, UK lawyers and others can become international participants of the association.
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NewsFirm hands staff £1,000 cost-of-living crisis bonus
One-off payment will go to all Bird & Bird employees earning less than £50,000 a year.
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NewsNegligence case over 2013 property sale was not statute barred, court rules
Judge says alleged damage was caused when decision to sell the property was irreversible.
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NewsFirm to pay wasted costs after ‘negligence’ in bringing case
Solicitors did not have proper authority to act for company that was jointly owned.
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NewsNQ salary war cools, but HSF increases pay
Magic circle firms Allen & Overy and Linklaters not raising newly-qualified pay for now.
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News'We're back': legal aid lawyers begin second week of strikes
Criminal Bar Association chair Jo Sidhu QC urges Dominic Raab to pick up the phone.
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News‘Size matters’: Clyde and BLM create biggest defendant practice
Expanded firm trumpets new technology which can read 99% of all required claims documents.
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NewsStrike data collection caused ‘immediate distress’
Criminal Bar Association demands explanation for 'name non-attendees' email.
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NewsGerrard involved in ‘grotesque perjury’, High Court hears
Ex-Dechert partner and his former client accused of ‘conspiracy to defraud the court’.