Latest news – Page 318
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NewsCooley seeks to replicate US diversity success
Successful applicants to UK fellowship scheme will be given up to £12,000 towards tuition and study expenses.
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News£45m funding boost for group claims firm
PGMBM has entered a funding partnership with alternative investor North Wall Capital.
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NewsPay solicitors more for advising on wrongful convictions - report
Legal aid rates for work on alleged miscarriages of justice are lower than they were 25 years ago.
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NewsFormer government lawyer Rose appointed to Supreme Court
Lady Justice Rose's appointment doubles the number of women sitting in the UK's highest court.
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News'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!', joint committee tells Human Rights Act review
Joint Committee on Human Rights says evidence confirms the legislation works well.
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NewsGovernment to tackle 'inequitable' funding arrangements for private prosecutions
Costs recoverable by a private prosecutor could be capped at legal aid rates.
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NewsTribunal orders BPP to pay disabled former law lecturer £168k
Unfavourable treatment of employee included comment she was ‘mad as a box of frogs’.
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NewsBudget 2021: Sunak 'turning a blind eye' to law and order
Lawyers' leaders say the wider justice system is a poor relation in HM Treasury's priorities.
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NewsBudget 2021: New moves on ‘tax avoidance promoters’
Package of measures to strengthen existing anti-avoidance regimes.
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NewsBudget 2021: Solicitors react to stamp duty confirmation
Fears for overstretched property sector as transaction volumes expected to rise.
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NewsBudget 2021: Biggest incorporated firms face hike in corporation tax
Businesses posting £250,000 profits told to brace themselves for 25% rate.
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NewsBudget 2021: Stamp duty holiday extended until 30 June
Rishi Sunak outlines measures 'to turn generation rent into generation buy'.
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NewsBar chief dismisses complaints of 'woke' bias from tweeting barrister
Jon Holbrook had asked Bar Council to 'stand up to the mob', but its chair says he ignored professional obligations.
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NewsLegal aid fraudsters fail to set aside £5m judgment
Lord chancellor brought charges based on doubts about almost 5,800 immigration cases.
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News'Landmark moment': attorney general goes on maternity leave
Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act rushed through parliament so Suella Braverman did not have to resign.
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NewsEnvironment Agency prosecutor wins libel damages
Senior solicitor suffered 'groundless and upsetting attack on his integrity'.
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News'Testament to their professionalism': CPS staff praised for working longer hours
Inspectors publish report from first ever assessment of Complex Casework Units.
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NewsMoJ ‘still committed’ to increasing small claims limit for EL and PL
Wider reform of PI claims is not on the legislative timetable - but the government is not abandoning the idea.
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NewsBPP guts Holborn campus – but still charges London premium
Students claim they are being charged a £3,000 premium for access to a ‘building site’.
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NewsDMH Stallard resumes expansion plans following Covid pause
Merger with London divorce boutique is fourth since 2015.