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NewsQualitySolicitors’ owner in new private equity deal
Palamon Capital Partners has acquired controlling stake in conveyancing and probate business The Simplify Group.
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Aborted court building work costs almost £46m
Full cost of projects that never came to fruition was laid out in a written response to a question in the Commons last week.
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NewsFlorida jury awards huge damages over cigarettes
Cynthia Robinson was awarded $23.6bn (£13.86bn) in damages against a cigarette maker for the death of her husband.
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Justice council solicitor revealed
Andrew Parker, head of strategic litigation at international firm DAC Beachcroft, has been appointed as the solicitor member of the CJC.
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NewsLegal aid campaigner dies at 59
Simon Mumford, 59, fought for legal aid and access to justice, Michael Walters, administrator of Cardiff Law Society said.
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NewsTitle of lord chancellor no longer needed, says former MR
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers and former lord chancellor Lord Mackay gave evidence to a Lords committee.
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NewsFormer diplomat to head bar’s regulator
Sir Andrew Burns will replace Lady Deech as chairman of the Bar Standards Board on 1 January.
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Op Cotton silk banks over double legal aid rates
Anthony Peto QC of Blackstone Chambers received £6,300 (excluding VAT) for one-day appeal hearing in May.
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NewsMansfield: the victims’ choice
Campaigners for victims of historic child sexual abuse have called for barrister Michael Mansfield QC to lead inquiry.
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NewsMPs grill Lloyds executive over ‘law firm’ debt letters
Treasury select committee writes to four major banks demanding answers on letters to indebted customers.
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NewsGovernment still mulling Land Registry sale
Plan to create a 'service delivery company' shelved after overwhelming opposition in a consultation.
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NewsInternational friendly
Networking at a Chancery Lane event before the Law Society’s international marketplace conference.
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NewsRecord £1m fine is new blow to Land Registry
Agency penalised for engaging interim finance director off-payroll.
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NewsGerard Sanders: extended interview
Gerard Sanders, deputy general counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up a new role in October as General Counsel of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Here he talks about his interest in development and the role law and lawyers play in that ...
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NewsSRA warns in-house lawyers not to mislead third parties
Regulator has received ‘a number of complaints' about debt recovery letters.
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NewsMinister: I didn’t know about student loan letters
David Willetts said the use of a debt-recovery letters practice had not been brought to his attention before media reports last week.
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NewsReding bows out
Johannes Hahn, commissioner for regional policy, will take caretaker responsibility for the justice portfolio.