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NewsRecord £1m fine is new blow to Land Registry
Agency penalised for engaging interim finance director off-payroll.
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NewsGerard Sanders: extended interview
Gerard Sanders, deputy general counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up a new role in October as General Counsel of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Here he talks about his interest in development and the role law and lawyers play in that ...
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NewsSRA warns in-house lawyers not to mislead third parties
Regulator has received ‘a number of complaints' about debt recovery letters.
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NewsMinister: I didn’t know about student loan letters
David Willetts said the use of a debt-recovery letters practice had not been brought to his attention before media reports last week.
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NewsReding bows out
Johannes Hahn, commissioner for regional policy, will take caretaker responsibility for the justice portfolio.
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Society receives funding request for aid JR
The Law Society’s Management Board met to discuss the funding request.
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NewsView to a bill
Original texts of the US Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence will be on display in the UK next year as part of exhibition to commemorate anniversary of Magna Carta.
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Rafferty chairs college
Lady Justice Rafferty takes over from Lady Justice Hallett on 1 August.
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Gazette reporter Baksi on shortlist
Catherine Baksi has been shortlisted in the legal journalism category of the Halsbury Legal Awards 2014.
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NewsStudent Loans Company suspends misleading recovery letters
Letters included the phrase ‘we are instructed by our client’.
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NewsLegal Pride 2014 – image gallery
See pictures of the profession marching at Saturday’s flagship LGBT event.
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NewsTalks look set to settle dispute over VHCCs
Bar leaders have met the Ministry of Justice several times over the past month to seek to resolve impasse.
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NewsLaw Society on Newsnight
Andrew Caplen, Law Society vice president, appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight programme last night to discuss the legal and consumer aspects of the Wonga case. Watch the broadcast.
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NewsLawyers recognised in honours list
Private practice solicitors and others employed at the Crown Prosecution Service and Ministry of Justice were among those recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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NewsGovernment temps cost taxpayer £161m
Spending comes amid a central government freeze on non-payroll recruitment.
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Psychiatric nurse pledge for police stations
The nurses will help ‘divert’ the mentally ill away from the criminal justice system, Jeremy Wright has promised.
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NewsLes misérables
Lawyers across France went on strike last week, calling for a doubling of the country’s legal aid budget.