Latest news – Page 349
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NewsHybrid hearings 'increase risk of unfairness'
PI leader says that 'lawyers and courts are so pleased to have a hearing at all that they overlook fairness issues'.
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NewsCrisis navigator to help criminal firm provide holistic support
Not-for-profit outfit Commons says service will address clients' underlying social needs.
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NewsHundreds of students register for bar re-sits
BSB says August exam performance appears to be in line with last year despite technical difficulties.
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NewsBirmingham solicitor elected as future president of Law Society
Lubna Shuja will take up position in 2022 after serving as deputy vice and then vice president.
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NewsRemote hearings fail most vulnerable clients, say solicitors
People with mental health issues, learning disabilities and language barriers believed to be at particular disadvantage.
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NewsFreshfields elects first female senior partner in management revamp
Georgia Dawson will lead new senior leadership team.
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NewsFirm required to disclose client advice in dishonesty claim
Law firm, which did not specifically object to the disclosure application, expects the documents to absolve it from liability.
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NewsSQE could halve cost of qualification, says consultancy
Legal training provider Barbri announces £6,000 SQE prep course.
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NewsSunak offers new incentives to keep on ‘viable’ jobs over winter
Chancellor says that as economy reopens it is 'fundamentally wrong' to hold people in jobs that only exist inside furlough.
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NewsInvestigation launched after black barrister mistaken for defendant
Alexandra Wilson says she should not expect to have to constantly justify her existence at work.
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NewsCoronavirus a ‘catalyst’ for cross-border mediation
More than 50 countries have signed up to Singapore Convention on Mediation so far.
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NewsWales 'more conscious' of devolution due to Covid-19 laws
Former lord chief justice says people are having to grapple with Welsh law in their day-to-day lives.
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NewsRemote family lawyers 'feeling isolated' during lockdown
Family law group chief says remote working has taken away important water-cooler conversations.
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NewsLitigators frustrated by ‘hopelessly laborious’ disclosure pilot
Elements of pilot branded ‘monstrously difficult’ and ‘hopelessly laborious’, with costs ‘triplicated’.
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NewsParents 'generally bear their own costs' in family proceedings
HHJ Middleton-Roy says courts have to consider all the circumstances before deciding a costs order.
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NewsClyde & Co announces private prosecutions service
City firm predicts rise in private prosecutions as criminal court battles with growing backlog.
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NewsBSB refuses to back down on October exams
Waiver ‘not an option now or in the future’ says regulator.
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NewsHigh Court dismisses robot inventor appeal
Appellant named AI machine as inventor in patent application.
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NewsDWF sets up Southampton insurance base after lawyer raid
Listed firm poaches 13-lawyer team from Keoghs.
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NewsBPP denies student claims it 'degraded teaching' in lockdown
University partly upholds four elements of initial complaint, which raised 27 issues in total.