Litigation Funding news – Page 36
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NewsHousing work threatened by fixed costs regime
Report commissioned by housing specialists shows legal aid providers' income could fall by at least 20%.
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NewsAxiom fund set up to fill legal aid ‘black hole’, court hears
Defence case begins in criminal trial following collapse of £120m legal financing fund.
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NewsCourt 'walkouts' could start in weeks
Hundreds of criminal barristers could refuse to attend court in response to the government's proposed reforms.
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NewsGovernment blames Easter for court backlog rise
Official figures show the number of outstanding cases grew in the month barristers commenced legal aid action.
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NewsCollege escapes costs over 'slave trade' memorial case
Judge says case had to be brought before consistory court as differences of opinion were 'totally unbridgeable'.
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News£2bn trucks cartel claim gets green light
Competition Appeal Tribunal grants first-ever opt-in collective proceedings order in the UK.
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NewsAlterations made to remodelled housing emergency scheme
Changes include earlier legal advice, specialist support contracts and grant funding for legal aid training contracts.
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NewsNo future in criminal defence, juniors tell Law Society
'What other business is still charging 1995 rates?’ asks respondent in Chancery Lane poll.
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NewsLegal aid action could escalate in three weeks' time
Criminal Bar Association will ballot members on 11 June after consulting barristers, heads of chambers and circuit leaders.
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News'Too fair, too kind, too gentle': legal aid solicitors demand tougher action
Several criminal defence practitioners are boycotting burglary work but want to widen the scope of cases.
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NewsEntrepreneur loses contempt appeal in £200,000 dispute with Farrer & Co
Julie Meyer, 55, in ‘deliberate and cynical breach’ of court orders, Court of Appeal rules.
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NewsRussian can sell Belgravia mansion to fund legal fees
Fugitive may ‘in principle’ sell properties to pay Mishcon and Greenberg, judge rules.
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NewsSRA should keep costs protection, Supreme Court rules
Regulator had intervened in case raising concerns that it might be unable to bring some prosecutions in future.
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NewsNo returns: Disruption minimal as backup helpline attracts 19 volunteers
Trial hearings disrupted on the day running at well under 50 - and falling, MoJ data shows.
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NewsBar to ballot on escalating legal aid action
Criminal Bar Association says many members have signalled willingness and desire to adopt 'more disruptive forms of action'.
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NewsJustice committee chair raises doubts about fixed costs in clin neg claims
Sir Bob Neill says providers will be forced out of running smaller claims.
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NewsChancery Lane 'not surprised' by escalating legal aid action
London criminal defence solicitors will refuse to take on 'loss-making' burglary cases from 25 May.
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News'Deal with this problem': lord chief wades into legal aid dispute
Lord Burnett of Maldon raises capacity concerns as pressure mounts to bring more cases to the criminal courts.
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NewsCounsel hit with five million pages fail in fee challenge
Seven barristers fail in challenge to Legal Aid Agency over fraud trial.
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NewsSolicitors vote to escalate legal aid action
Dozens of criminal defence practitioners will refuse to take on low-paid work starting with burglary cases from 25 May.