Michael Cross
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NewsDebt and part-time jobs: barristers ‘at breaking point’
A quarter of respondents taking on outside work as income collapses.
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Global bar body backs ‘genocide amendment’
MPs to vote on measure linking trade policy to human rights.
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ECHR departure not on agenda, says rights review chair
Independent inquiry 'has no pre-conceived answers’ and encourages ‘widest possible range of views’.
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Gateley weathers lockdown with 9.8% first-half profit rise
Sharp reduction in activity was mitigated by a 'continuing upward trend', listed firm tells investors.
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Panasonic backs startup’s early warning dispute tech
Electronics giant teams up with British lawtech startup developing artificial intelligence tool.
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Windrush review: public service honour for author
Wendy Williams, admitted in 1991, receives CBE in 2021 New Year Honours.
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US bar condemns assault on Capitol
’President Trump has a duty to restore and protect the rule of law.’
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Lawyers in frontline of new Hong Kong clampdown
Foreign secretary condemns mass arrests as 'grievous attack on rights and freedoms'.
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Time to turn on the legal data taps
Training AI systems to make sense of the legal world requires masses of data. But lawyers are reluctant to let it flow.
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Faulks review urged to recommend legislation to curb JR
Declaring war, prorogation and ministerial appointments should be protected from legal challenge, thinktank argues.
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Judge commends solicitor granted temporary right of audience
Practitioner assisted litigant in person in defamation case with 'care, restraint and courtesy'.
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Trade deal: work has only just begun, says Law Society
Legal services reportedly included in £668bn trade cooperation agreement announced today.
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MoJ fills Lords gap with commercial QC peerage
David Wolfson QC appointed junior justice minister.
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Back to tradition as master of the rolls appointed to Lords
Sir Terence Etherton will sit as a cross-bencher.
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Newspaper wrong to name suspect in Manchester bombing
Open justice argument 'entirely misconceived', Mr Justice Warby rules in privacy claim.
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Competition expert to chair criminal legal aid review
'Whole-system look' to be led by former judge Sir Christopher Bellamy.
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'Compelling case' for regulatory reform, competition watchdog claims
Requiring law firms to publish information on prices has so far made little impression on intensity of competition.
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Views sought on legality and operation of self-executing contracts
Law Commission aims to clear up 'lingering uncertainties' about application of contract law.
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Small firms should not escape financial crime levy, SRA tells government
Charges should be based on risk profile, which means smaller practices would be liable.
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News focus: 'Wreckers' absent from human rights review panel
The panel set up to review the Human Rights Act appears unlikely to push for its dismemberment. Instead, the review’s restricted scope may pave the way to consensus.
