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NewsLawyers to advise rape complainants on 'unnecessary' requests
Justice secretary also commissions work to expand principles of Operation Soteria into the courtroom.
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NewsEx-client loses negligence appeal over 17-year-old divorce advice
Judges agree that former divorce client's claim had been time-barred because she had enough knowledge to have made it earlier.
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NewsGovernment claims progress on county court delays
Figures suggest on the surface that the post-Covid trend of increasing delays is being turned around.
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NewsMidlife crisis: lawyers urge people in their 40s and 50s to make a will
Research on people with up-to-date wills suggests a wave of inheritance disputes looms.
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NewsGlobal firm fined after client account used as banking facility
SRA opts against bigger financial penalty on firm with £428 million annual revenue.
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NewsSolicitors escalate fight over jury curbs
Solicitors will march to parliament and lobby MPs ahead of first parliamentary debate on Courts and Tribunals Bill.
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NewsTV host Rob Rinder urges MPs to oppose jury curbs
Barrister says offences that will be heard by judge alone are not minor and require public participation.
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NewsSRA returns £9m to clients of closed firm PM Law
Regulator has received more than 250 applications to the compensation fund and paid out on 38 of the most urgent.
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NewsGovernment makes legal services pledge on India
Last year’s UK-India free trade agreement made no mention of legal services, allowing India to continue to restrict UK lawyers’ practising rights.
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NewsConsumer watchdog debates corporate law firm levy
Legal Services Consumer Panel resurrects controversial proposal of imposing a levy on large law firms to help fund justice.
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NewsEmployment judge's conduct showed 'apparent bias', EAT finds
Barrister’s claim against his former chambers will continue without involvement of first instance judge.
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NewsClaimant late to accept Part 36 offer restricted to fixed costs, rules Court of Appeal
Defendant's lawyers say decision will 'resonate across personal injury litigation' and strengthen FRC regime.
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NewsClass action champion Merricks pulls out of rail fares case
Competition Appeal Tribunal orders solicitors to provide details of any replacement class representative.
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NewsHamas solicitor fails to force disclosure after mobile seized
Fahad Ansari will have ‘full panoply of procedural protections’ if police search of his phone leads to criminal proceedings, says judge.
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NewsMazur fallout: Court bars senior family lawyer from children case
Brighton legal executive of 20 years told she cannot have a shortcut to authorisation.
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NewsSRA reprimanded for SSB Law blunders
New chief executive says organisation must learn from multitude of failings in run-up to collapse of no win, no fee firm.
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NewsSRA shuts down multi-office firm and suspends three solicitors
Regulator moves in to close firm based on suspicions of compliance officer's dishonesty.
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NewsSupreme Court dismisses state immunity arguments on arbitration awards
Judgment on challenges by Spain and Zimbabwe demonstrates the 'pro-arbitration approach of the English court'.
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NewsTrump administration u-turns on suits against law firms
Justice department will seek to enforce executive orders, hours after moving to drop the plan.
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NewsHale: Labour should listen to Greens on 'real people'
Former Supreme Court president says European Convention on Human Rights wrongly blamed for issues bothering politicians.