Latest news – Page 561
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NewsLeO: Handbook overhaul will ‘confuse’ clients
Complaints-handler joins multiple critics of SRA proposals to reform practising rules.
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NewsIBA 2016: legal independence in E&W under attack
Political attacks on lawyers and regulators answerable to government – two of the warning signs highlighted in major report.
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NewsIBA 2016: TTIP ‘promotes rule of law’
US government in last-ditch efforts to save controversial free-trade treaties.
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NewsCity savages SRA over handbook changes
As Brexit looms, City solicitors berate proposals which could ’damage the reputation of English law’ at a time when our jurisdiction is vulnerable.
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NewsLib Dems ‘regret’ coalition’s legal aid bonfire
Motion passed at party conference accepts that cuts created ‘advice deserts’.
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NewsInsurers will be ‘reluctant’ to pass on whiplash savings – Fitch
Ratings agency says industry will want to see evidence of lower claims costs before cutting premiums.
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NewsConvicted fraudster tells police: my solicitor made me do it
Officer warns about misconception over fees leading to submission of false claims.
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NewsPublic opposed to SRA handbook proposals
Ipsos-Mori survey shows the public likely to be overwhelmingly opposed to removal of key client protections.
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NewsNews focus: a vulnerable child failed by the system
A solicitor has been found culpable over a vulnerable child’s murder. But the police, protection agencies and a sclerotic justice system were also at fault.
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City hires boost competition watchdog
The Competetition and Markets Authority has hired legal directors from Freshfields and Hogan Lovells.
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NewsMan arrested after solicitor found dead
Alison Jane Farr-Davies, 42, ‘was always helping others’, family says.
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NewsTwo more London courts face axe in MoJ plans
Camberwell Green and Hammersmith magistrates’ courts earmarked for closure.
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NewsTransforming justice: judges face pay and expenses curbs
Judges would have to give notice to quit and many will face pay and expenses curbs under plans to overhaul judicial working conditions.
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NewsTransforming justice: wider fixed costs regime on the way
Ministry of Justice also gives the green light to the online court for resolving civil claims.
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NewsLawyers aghast at SRA plans to lift cold-calling ban
Rule on unsolicited calls would disappear from the code of conduct under plans to drastically slim down the handbook.
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NewsTransforming justice: digital courts get green light in £1bn initiative
Online revolution will 'deliver a justice system that works for everyone', says Truss.
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NewsNotW’s former legal chief found in contempt for misleading MPs
Tom Crone misled parliament over his knowledge of evidence of those involved in phone hacking.
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NewsCompensation fund payouts tumble by £5.9m in a year
The number of claims coming into the fund also falls, from 1,842 in 2014 to 1,174 last year.
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NewsSolicitor judge Hickinbottom appointed to CoA
Six appointments fill vacancies in the Court of Appeal arising this autumn.
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News12-month sentence for ‘utterly false’ whiplash claim
High Court hears Bernard Parmar made or caused to be made six separate false statements of truth in £15,000 claim.