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Solicitor struck off for lying to clients about cases
Essex practitioner said he was trying to ‘buy time’ by giving false assurances.
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Accounts reveal LSB chief's bonus jumped 17% in a year
Total package for chief executive Matthew Hill now comes to more than £175,000.
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Family law solicitor makes fashion dreams reality
Young lawyer swaps clients for clothing in career change.
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Parliament must not become 'yes man', former top judge warns
Baroness Butler-Sloss tells podcast she has noticed 'distinct creep' to move away from parliamentary scrutiny.
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Costs of case manager meetings cannot be claimed, master rules
Fee-earners attending meetings are not involved with progressing litigation in complex personal injury claim.
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Pure Legal: 150 ex-clients chase collapsed firm to recoup crippling losses
Initial letters of claim for professional negligence in two test cases sent by former clients of north-west firm.
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Misconduct: 'No simple explanation' for race bias in complaints
Project commissioned by SRA to investigate over-representation of minority ethnic solicitors in disciplinary process publishes literature review.
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Society secures JR permission over criminal legal aid fees
Chancery Lane urges new lord chancellor Alex Chalk to settle dispute away from court.
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Deprivation of liberty safeguards reform delayed
Care minister says liberty protection safeguards implementation will be matter 'for a future government'.
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Litigation funder still upbeat despite huge annual loss
Return to normality in insolvency market will create 'fantastic return profile' in the next few years.
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Law firm named for not paying 10 workers the minimum wage
Bolton firm joins national retailers in list of companies breaching minimum wage requirements.
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Part 36 benefits denied after claimant's 'perilously close' offer
Offer to settle at 99% of the value of the claim did not create meaningful chance of ending dispute.
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Solicitor-deputy banned for overcharging vulnerable clients
Law firm’s former head of Court of Protection also admitted keeping Apple phone bought with client money.
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'Pitiful' collusion claim against firm thrown out in High Court
Judge says claimant had three chances to advance his case and now 'enough is enough'.
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Access to justice 'should be every lord chancellor's mission', says Chalk
Legal aid barrister 'spending a little time in politics' promises parliamentarians that he will do his best.
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Firm called in to review bar's struggling enforcement system
Bar Standards Board received a red light warning from its oversight regulator earlier this year.
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SRA to pay £38,000 costs after rebuke overturned
Adjudicator had wrongly penalised a head of practice for mistakes made by external advisers.
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Post Office GC to appear at inquiry over disclosure issue
Documents which should have been disclosed to the inquiry only emerged through an FoI request.
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Over 2,000 duty solicitors lost in a decade, Law Society warns
Chancery Lane chief says projections suggest 'perfect storm' awaits criminal justice system.
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Police say unplanned motor fraud is on the rise
Opportunistic fraudsters targeted as people seek ways to get quick cash.