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NewsIn depth: ECHR withdrawal 'no longer just the headbanger's view'
Thinktank Policy Exchange is seeking to propel withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights into mainstream political debate.
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NewsIn depth: Law firm and US bar strike blows against Trump - is the tide turning?
Four leading US law firms chose to fight Trump’s executive orders. The first full judgment has come down in the sector’s favour – leaving those firms which capitulated to the president in a bind.
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NewsIn depth: Reforming weddings law
Three years on from Law Commission recommendations to create a ‘fairer system’, the Labour government will ‘take more time’ to decide on next steps.
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NewsIn depth: 'World’s first AI law firm' targets high street practices
Garfield Law, a pioneering firm providing legal services through AI, has been approved by the SRA. The founders, a City lawyer and a quantum physicist, are targeting LiPs and high street firms
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NewsIn depth: Is Big Law in the UK holding the line on DEI?
We contacted all the top 25 firms to find out.
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NewsIn depth: Ukraine - fears grow that justice could be traded away
During the first Ukraine Law Day, participants discussed how Russia can be made to pay for its war. But fears were also voiced that justice could be traded away as part of any peace deal.
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NewsIn depth: Could new funding models for early advice transform civil justice?
A two-year research project will explore different funding models for organisations that provide free and early legal advice ‘to move the conversation forward to an informed place’.
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NewsA dollar a second? Hourly rates rocket at top global firms
Billing rates for senior lawyers are already 'exceptionally high' and fee inflation is rampant, new study finds.
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News'We need to be hungrier': SFO boss Nick Ephgrave on his 2025-26 agenda
As Nick Ephgrave publishes his first annual business plan after a full year in the role, the SFO chief tells the Gazette that he wants to deploy his policing expertise to make investigations bolder, speedier and more aggressive.
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NewsIn depth: Justice minister admits county court has not recovered from pandemic
Sarah Sackman KC has admitted to MPs that the county court has not recovered from the trauma of the pandemic. Successes such as digitisation of claims are ‘nowhere near enough’.
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NewsIn depth: A digital justice system remains ‘within reach’
The £1.3bn plan to modernise courts and tribunals has fallen short of ambitions, but ‘21st century justice’ is still a realistic aspiration.
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NewsClean up your own backyard: City law firms urged to overhaul client onboarding
Legislators are ready to criminalise professional ‘enablers’ of kleptocracy - the City needs to take the threat of legislation seriously.
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News‘People are distressingly ignorant’: Hale and Sumption at the Lords rule of law inquiry
Appearing before a Lords inquiry into the rule of law, Lady Hale and Lord Sumption called for better education, while highlighting media misinformation and inequality of arms.
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NewsFundão dam collapse: a catastrophe that led Monica Dos Santos to take up law
Monica Dos Santos lost everything in Brazil’s Fundão dam collapse – then trained as a lawyer to fight for justice.
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NewsIn depth: Spring statement - HMRC targets tax avoidance enablers
While Rachel Reeves’ spring statement was devoid of a ‘proper investment plan’ for justice, it did propose a crackdown on advisers who promote tax avoidance schemes – with fines running into millions.
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NewsIn depth: Irish language to be used in Northern Ireland courts
In a ‘historic and monumental achievement’, Irish can now be used in Northern Ireland’s courts. But questions remain about how this will affect the administration of justice.
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NewsAnalysis: Elite US firms attacked by Trump face a dilemma
Donald Trump has unleashed a blizzard of attacks against law firms he has deemed inimical to his cause. With independence and the rule of law at stake, there are calls for the profession to show a united front.
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NewsIn depth: Lifeline for LawtechUK as Master of the Rolls hails 'world leader'
As the government threw a lifeline to LawtechUK, Sir Geoffrey Vos declared that the sector can become a serious competitor to the US. But little cash is flowing into access to justice ventures.
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NewsIn depth: Risk and compliance conference - AML, ethics and workplace culture
The Law Society’s risk and compliance conference last week heard that compliance officers must surmount an ever growing number of hurdles.
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NewsIn depth: Benchmarking survey - client interest profit warning
Law firms buoyed by interest on client money must ‘wean themselves off’ this lucrative income stream. That is a key message of the annual Law Society Financial Benchmarking Survey.