All articles by Michael Cross – Page 78
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Deliveroo: Law Society condemns 'no tribunal' clauses
Chancery Lane welcomes reports that delivery business Deliveroo has amended contracts with riders.
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NewsProfit gap widens as large law firms grow faster
Benchmarking survey show third year of growth - but fortunes of small firms ‘mixed’
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NewsLabour to keep court fees - but cap them
'All too often justice is denied and truth covered up,' leaked manifesto draft states. Party also proposes to restore legal aid for family cases and JRs.
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All-night 'hackathon' to crack online court design
Judiciary teams up with legal IT community to come up with ’designs, solutions, systems and technologies’ - in just 24 hours.
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NewsEmployment law giant announces tie-up with London boutique
GQ Employment Law to join Littler’s ’global platform’
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NewsChinese human rights lawyer pleads guilty to 'incitement'
Official media show Xie Yang stating that his rights had been 'fully protected' during two years of detention.
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NewsGive us a heavyweight lord chancellor, bar urges next government
Incumbent must have ’experience combined with the requisite authority’ to defend judiciary, Bar Council manifesto says.
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NewsNews focus: Algorithms and 'Schrödinger’s justice'
Proprietary algorithms are already being used to make legal decisions, but can we trust a ‘black box’ to make the right call? Whatever the answer, lawyers will be needed
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NewsJustice by algorithm 'could bring courts to a halt'
US-style 'black box’ algorithms have no place in British courts, information law conference is told.
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NewsInternational outcry as China sentences human rights lawyer
Secret court convicts Li Heping of ‘subversion of state power’.
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Opinion
Shrouds, famine and the rule of law
Law firms won’t cure the woes of the Horn of Africa, but their presence suggests something is going right.
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NewsReed Smith announces agile working for (almost) all
All personnel will be able to work 'where, when and how they see fit’, claims 1,700-lawyer practice.
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NewsCMS sets pace with 27% of promotions women
International firm appoints 48 partners across 26 offices.
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NewsLondon's legal eminence will survive Brexit, LCJ insists
English contract and commercial law remains the UK’s ‘national treasure’.
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Weightmans and Ward Hadaway call off merger
Firms say strategic priorities were ’not sufficiently aligned’ for formal combination.
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News'Gold plated' money laundering plans threaten new burden on firms
Law Society raises concerns about new anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regime.
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International firm enters South Sudan market
South Africa-based Centurion announces strategic alliance with Juba firm.
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OpinionFamily courts: reporting a greater truth
A slight loss of secrecy is needed to preserve the credibility of the system. New reporting guidelines should help.
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NewsPolitical knives out for lord chancellor
Press reports say ministers are urging the prime minister to strip Liz Truss of lord chancellor role.
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NewsTurkish colleagues celebrate Lawyers Day - with 370 behind bars
Full scale of post-coup crackdown on the profession emerges in campaign by international group.