Latest news – Page 246
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NewsHoward Kennedy fighting property negligence claim
Developer alleges London firm negligently drafted local authority deal.
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NewsFirm to pay £17,000 to unfairly dismissed solicitor
Tribunal last month found a series of failings over employee with cancer diagnosis.
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News'Loss-making' rates behind decline in community care work
Firms tell social care charity they are reluctant to take on cases because the work is financially unviable.
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NewsJudge declines recusal despite being owed £7,700 by claimant
International firm’s claim for £1m in unpaid fees is heard by judge still owed money for past work.
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NewsBigger four: KPMG to double size of UK legal practice
Firm says expansion will create 'a different type of law offering' with a global reach.
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NewsSlaughters appoints first ‘responsible business’ director
Magic circle firm’s appointment follows similar move by Hogan Lovells last week.
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NewsAppeal court shows mercy to LiP over ‘unless’ order
Judges say ‘relatively venial’ mistakes were not enough to kill off claim in breach of contract case.
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NewsEquity investors flex muscles in merger flurry
Firms and WIP being snapped up by firms enjoying new backing from investors.
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NewsFirm loses bid to identify ‘toxic environment’ reviewer
BW Legal Services sought Norwich Pharmacal relief against review website Glassdoor.
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NewsCity firm’s home working pay cut makes headlines
Stephenson Harwood says full-time remote workers face 20% salary reduction.
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NewsMagistrates' new jailing powers come in to force
Critics fear latest measure to tackle court backlog will result in more appeals to the Crown court.
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NewsGovernment ‘looking carefully’ at radical clin neg proposals
Patients’ charity says well-established compensation system cannot be thrown out overnight.
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NewsCharles Russell Speechlys to pay out £1.5m in negligence claim
International firm 'fell short of the standard of care required of a reasonably competent solicitor'.
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NewsClifford Chance finalises Moscow spin-off
Magic circle firm says ‘small number’ of Moscow team likely to be made redundant.
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NewsChancery interim applications in person next month
Sir Julian Flaux says interim applications in person by default from 9 May.
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NewsSolicitor on jury service jailed for researching trial evidence
Experienced solicitor's actions caused trial to be abandoned at an estimated cost of £30,000.
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NewsLondon defence solicitors demand 25% fee increase
Practitioner group revises what it is willing to accept from government after members say 15% uplift isn't enough.
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NewsSRA chief admits ethnicity pay gap figure is ‘not acceptable’
In first report, regulator says disparity is due to white staff accounting for 88% of best-paid staff.
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NewsPart of the union: GMB sets up branch for judges
Prominent trade union insists it does not want to go to war with senior judiciary.
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NewsLaurence Fox seeks first libel jury trial for a decade
Actor and former mayoral candidate says vindication by jury ‘will be worth all the more’.