Latest news – Page 233
-
NewsSolicitors could escalate legal aid action next week
Head of London practitioner group will discuss potential next steps with firms after survey closes later today.
-
NewsUK ‘backsliding on human rights’ – Council of Europe
Human rights commissioner says Bill of Rights ‘sends the wrong signal’ to other countries.
-
NewsUkraine Bar Association opens to foreign members
For an annual £171, UK lawyers and others can become international participants of the association.
-
NewsFirm hands staff £1,000 cost-of-living crisis bonus
One-off payment will go to all Bird & Bird employees earning less than £50,000 a year.
-
NewsNegligence case over 2013 property sale was not statute barred, court rules
Judge says alleged damage was caused when decision to sell the property was irreversible.
-
NewsFirm to pay wasted costs after ‘negligence’ in bringing case
Solicitors did not have proper authority to act for company that was jointly owned.
-
NewsNQ salary war cools, but HSF increases pay
Magic circle firms Allen & Overy and Linklaters not raising newly-qualified pay for now.
-
News'We're back': legal aid lawyers begin second week of strikes
Criminal Bar Association chair Jo Sidhu QC urges Dominic Raab to pick up the phone.
-
News‘Size matters’: Clyde and BLM create biggest defendant practice
Expanded firm trumpets new technology which can read 99% of all required claims documents.
-
NewsStrike data collection caused ‘immediate distress’
Criminal Bar Association demands explanation for 'name non-attendees' email.
-
NewsGerrard involved in ‘grotesque perjury’, High Court hears
Ex-Dechert partner and his former client accused of ‘conspiracy to defraud the court’.
-
NewsFirm shuts citing ‘unmanageable’ rises in PII costs
Conveyancing practice secures merger with 360 Law Group after finding insurance too expensive.
-
NewsClaimant loses £49k damages as High Court overturns ‘injustice’ finding
County court had ruled that fundamentally dishonest claimant was due some money.
-
NewsSolicitor suspended over supercar failures
Practitioner failed to prevent his firm’s client account being used as a banking facility by a Saudi prince.
-
NewsCivil Justice Council kicks off 'holistic' review of costs
Costs budgeting, fixed recoverable costs and impact of digitisation all under the spotlight.
-
NewsMoR may be on brink of ‘destroying our civil justice ecosystem’
Chair of the Law Society’s civil litigation section advisory committee critiques controversial claims-handling reforms proposed by master of the rolls.
-
-
News‘Burn it’ solicitor: Destroying evidence was ‘utterly stupid’
Raymond McKeeve says there was ‘nothing surreptitious’ about app that he instructed be destroyed.
-
NewsGovernment must strengthen laws against 'enablers', MPs say
Law firms ‘being used by kleptocrats and criminals to suppress evidence of their corruption’, committee warns.
-
NewsMoJ to fast-track criminal legal aid fee increase
Government announcement comes three days after criminal barristers commenced strike action.