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NewsSolicitor fraud case dismissed
The defendants had set up a complex commercial transaction involving opencast mining sites and restoration obligations.
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NewsFive solicitors make the silk cut
All five are at City firms practising in international arbitration.
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Neuberger judicial diversity lecture
This will be the third lecture in the Rainbow Lecture Series.
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Male rape help as fund unveiled
The Ministry of Justice has pledged £500,000 to help male victims of rape and sexual violence receive advice and counselling.
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Innovation scholarship
The Centre for Justice Innovation has launched its StreetCraft scholarship to encourage innovation by public, private and voluntary sectors working in criminal justice.
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NewsMoJ site targeted by hackers
Hackers target MoJ site through a distributed denial-of-service attack.
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Litigation funders face new complaints regime
Third-party funders could be publicly expelled from the body that regulates them under a new complaints procedure.
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Claimant faces record costs after tribunal
Last April, tribunal rules were changed to allow employment judges to make bigger costs orders.
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NewsFlood misery hits law firms
Some members of staff took three hours to get into work instead of 20 minutes.
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NewsTSol signs up to diversity
TSol, the UK’s largest in-house legal department, is the 400th signatory to the charter and the first government department on the list.
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Pauline Thompson obituary
Pauline Thompson, a member of the Law Society’s mental health and disability committee from 2005-2012, died of cancer on 13 January.
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New JLD chair
Sophia Dirir, senior lawyer at charity Action for Children, has been elected as chair of the Junior Lawyers Division. Dirir said key areas the division will be campaigning on this year include the scarcity of training contracts and pressures to over-specialise at an early career stage. Dirir said the current ...
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Firm merger activity heats up
Merger activity hotted up in the second half of 2013, according to figures published by the Law Consultancy Network. The eighth six-monthly survey by Andrew Otterburn showed 24% of firms had merged in the second half of the year, compared with 18% in the first six months.
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Quality mark for restorative practice
The Restorative Justice Council has published national standards and a quality mark for restorative practice to increase confidence in the process of bringing offenders into communication with those harmed by their crimes. The restorative justice quality mark, backed by the Ministry of Justice, requires organisations to meet six standards. ...
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Minster Law owner makes deal with insurance firm
Five-tear agreement with Towergate to handle claims for thousands of customers.
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NewsCobbetts administration costs soaring
KPMG has now applied for a further six months to carry out the administration.
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NewsGun attack survivor marks endangered lawyer day
A Colombian lawyer who last month survived a gun attack while visiting clients is to speak in London this week.
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NewsBar chief urges cap on training numbers
Nicholas Lavender QC said he would also like the bar to adopt solicitors’ recruitment practices.
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NewsLPC students struggle to get training deals
The number of students who secured training contracts at the start of their LPC course also remains low.