Latest news – Page 289
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NewsChancery interim applications in person next month
Sir Julian Flaux says interim applications in person by default from 9 May.
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NewsSolicitor on jury service jailed for researching trial evidence
Experienced solicitor's actions caused trial to be abandoned at an estimated cost of £30,000.
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NewsLondon defence solicitors demand 25% fee increase
Practitioner group revises what it is willing to accept from government after members say 15% uplift isn't enough.
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NewsSRA chief admits ethnicity pay gap figure is ‘not acceptable’
In first report, regulator says disparity is due to white staff accounting for 88% of best-paid staff.
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NewsPart of the union: GMB sets up branch for judges
Prominent trade union insists it does not want to go to war with senior judiciary.
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NewsLaurence Fox seeks first libel jury trial for a decade
Actor and former mayoral candidate says vindication by jury ‘will be worth all the more’.
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NewsSlater and Gordon declines to explain 'secret' ATE payments
Judge says there is 'huge worry' about unexplained commission which firm 'refuses to explain'.
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NewsHSF and Clifford Chance break partnership records
Herbert Smith Freehills promotes firm’s largest cohort while Clifford Chance hails ‘most diverse ever’.
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NewsRemote firm reports 56% profit jump and bonus dividend
Keystone admits that applications to join tailed off in 2021 as lawyers reassessed their options.
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NewsSRA obtains fresh order for Khan to deliver up files
Solicitor Soophia Khan says her release from prison should have marked end of dispute with regulator.
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NewsEversheds distances itself from Russian spin-off
International firm says there has been ‘misunderstanding’ over launch of ‘relationship firm in Russia’.
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News‘No more blame culture’: MPs call to scrap clin neg system
Radical reform proposals include removing link between compensation and cost of private care.
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NewsCriminal legal aid sector ‘will disappear’, MPs hear
‘If there’s one flaw in the package, then the whole package is flawed,’ Society president tells justice committee.
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News'Resist prolixity' from lawyers, Vos tells judges
Courts should not ‘reward incompetence' by allowing lawyers to charge for long documents, says master of the rolls.
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NewsInce’s takeover of Arden approved by High Court
High Court hears deal agreed ‘at a premium and it became a deal at a discount’.
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NewsKeen: 'Role of the lord chancellor has diminished'
Former justice minister and advocate general of Scotland gives evidence to Lords inquiry.
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NewsSlater and Gordon denies bullying costs recovery lawyers
Appeal from national firm begins in High Court as it attempts to prevent former clients from bringing claims.
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NewsBar left reeling from malicious cyber attack
General Council of the Bar latest part of the legal profession to fall victim to hackers.
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News£1bn courts repair bill is threat to justice system, MPs report
Unavailable crumbling courtrooms and staff shortages reduce capacity to deal with backlog.
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NewsWard Hadaway blackmailed after cyber attack
Top-100 firm held to ransom for up to $6m (£4.75m) in bitcoin, High Court hears.