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Top-10 firm’s top earner receives £1.8m as profits soar
Further signs of a bumper pandemic year in the City as Norton Rose Fulbright reveals positive results all-round.
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Absolute failure: direct access bar service goes under
Uncertainty for clients as Absolute Barrister, which offered unbundled services online, calls in administrators.
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Court of Appeal rules police ‘hate incidents’ guidance unlawful
College of Policing’s guidance on recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ violates Article 10 of the ECHR, court rules.
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Ex-Dechert partner used ‘self-destructing messaging’, court hears
Communications were allegedly made with an emirate ruler during a Jordanian lawyer’s allegedly unlawful detention.
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Creditors out of pocket after firm owing £1.3m sold in pre-pack deal
Alternative business structure folded after talks to join with accountancy business failed.
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LiP’s recusal application against former solicitor dismissed
The claimant’s recusal application on the basis that the judge was a former solicitor was ‘fundamentally misconceived’.
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Court stops Irwin Mitchell claiming £95k costs ‘shortfall’ from client
Judge says firm claimed for 'substantial amount of unreasonable time' on settled personal injury case.
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Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear SC appeals, SC rules
Barrister’s appeal against a £5,000 fine for contempt of court is unanimously dismissed.
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SRA demands summary strike-off for Khan
Mr Justice Leech reserves judgment after Soophia Khan's legal team objects to regulator's submission on sanction without a tribunal hearing.
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Khan loses bid to adjourn committal hearing
Prominent civil litigation solicitor sought to adjourn today's proceedings on several grounds.
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Listed funder’s shares slide after director sacked
Litigation Capital Management said it dismissed its executive vice-chair for alleged breaches of its expenses policies.
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Firm and owner fined for failing to complete undertakings
Tribunal says undertakings must be binding even if they are outside a solicitor’s control.
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Direct access to barristers 'could improve justice outcomes' for ethnic minorities
Cross-party thinktank revisits Lammy Review recommendation to improve trust in criminal justice system.
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Public like 'class actions' but think lawyers are biggest winners - poll
Majority of people would be willing to join group litigation against organisation or employer.
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Disbarred barrister loses bid to practise pending appeal
Sky Bibi tells the High Court that her disbarment is ‘completely unfair, unprecedented, unjust and unlawful’.
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Law Commission to tackle 'rape myths'
Review will look at ways to improve the trial process for complainants and defendants.
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‘Obsession’: LiP ordered to end decade of negligence claims
Judge says the defendant lawyers should not have proceedings hanging over them after more than a decade.
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Outgoing bar chair appointed to bench
Derek Sweeting QC is one of four barristers appointed as High Court judges from January.
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Disposal times more important than backlog, bar tells MPs
Focusing on how long criminal cases take will more accurately measure progress and the impact on court users, according to representative body.
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SRA says solicitors embracing change as 400 go freelance
Research carried out to see how profession responded to reforms of two years ago.