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NewsRevealed: HMCTS had already spent £18m on axed debt scheme
Ministry of Justice confirmed the Transforming Compliance and Enforcement Programme was scrapped in September.
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NewsInternational Bar Association 2018: the highlights
A round-up of some of the key stories from Rome.
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NewsLord chancellor v Blavo: judgment reserved over £22m legal aid row
Court told that John Blavo is still subject to a freezing order as Mr Justice Pepperall considers decision.
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NewsLord Chancellor v Blavo: 'a number of explanations' for similarities in files
Closing submissions in the High Court claim over £22m in legal aid payments.
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NewsMoJ braced for backlash over proposed 32% judges' pay hike
Senior Salaries Review Body set to report on how judges can be wooed from private practice.
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NewsIBA Rome: Artificial intelligence must mean strict liability – and higher insurance premiums
’The law needs to try not to multiply problems of dealing with AI and should not invest AI with legal personality,’ says Nicholas Tse
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News'Thoroughly dishonest' solicitor jailed for contempt
Law firm founder lied repeatedly after medical report inflated claimant’s injuries.
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NewsParents breach court order after 'advice' from McKenzie friend
Case reported as judicial working group still silent on proposals to regulate growing industry.
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NewsIBA Rome: World’s first civil legal aid blueprint launched
International principles stress that legal aid generates significant social and economic benefits.
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NewsBlavo & Co director won't be called to give evidence, High Court told
John Blavo will not appear in court in relation to the lord chancellor's bid to recoup £22m.
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NewsIBA Rome: Ken Clarke calls for action to tackle corporate excess
Many multinationals are ‘self-perpetuating oligarchies determining their own rewards’, former justice secretary tells global lawyers.
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NewsPatient details in Blavo & Co files 'pretty much identical', court told
Former partner quizzed on the third day of a High Court hearing into 'second largest mental health firm', which was shut down in 2015.
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NewsRelaxed rules prompt conveyancers to jump the SRA ship
Insurance requirement changes mean firms can now switch regulators more easily.
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NewsIgnoring costs lawyer earns judicial rebuke in fee dispute
Master Leonard says Brethertons should have given Kerry-Anne Moore ‘the same professional courtesy as a solicitor’.
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Criminal lawyers warn of threat to burden of proof
Wealth orders under scrutiny as enforcement agencies gain new powers.
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NewsMoJ denies Grayling pulled plug on legal aid cases
Leaked documents suggest former lord chancellor had a role in denying help to challenges, news website says.
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NewsRevealed: firms that are allowed to operate outside solicitor rules
The SRA’s ‘safe space’ was extended in July - and the regulator has now started to publish details of applicants successful since then.
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NewsBlavo & Co burgled after firm told of legal aid probe, court told
Lord chancellor's High Court bid to seek £22m from director John Blavo continues.
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NewsRobot lawyers take off with flying taxis
SRA receives £700,000 from government’s ‘pioneer fund’ for regulation of future technologies.