All News focus articles – Page 16
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NewsNews focus: City social welfare scheme off to a flier
Major City law firms are funding the training of more than 20 aspiring solicitors this year through a landmark initiative to create the next generation of social welfare lawyers. Urged by government to step up, 18 have heeded the call so far, including four of the magic circle.
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NewsNews focus: Human rights heavyweights join war crimes hunt
As reports of war crimes in Bucha and Mariupol shock the world, a Legal Task Force on Accountability for Crimes Committed in Ukraine has enlisted global legal expertise to fight for justice.
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NewsNews focus: Criminal legal aid - point of no return?
With barristers preparing for ‘no returns’ and the Law Society withdrawing support for the government’s proposed reform package, what now for criminal legal aid?
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NewsNews focus: Tulip mania
High Court ruling provides some clarity on the rights and responsibilities relating to cryptoassets, but passions across the crypto community continue to rage.
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NewsNews focus: What will Dominic Raab's bill of rights look like?
The Human Rights Act is likely to be replaced by a bill of rights. Whether the case for reform is made out or not, the lord chancellor does not intend to be thwarted by hostile lawyers
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NewsNews focus: Ukraine invasion - a watershed for client selection
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted many firms to drop clients and review how they take on new work. Is this a watershed moment for client instructions?
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NewsNews focus: Whatever happened to QualitySolicitors?
QualitySolicitors once aimed to be visible on every major high street. Today its ambitions are more modest, but new owner Metamorph insists the underlying business remains robust
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NewsNews focus: Is the government's criminal legal aid cash pledge too little, too late?
A cash injection is long overdue, but not everything is at it seems in the government’s response to the criminal legal aid review. Solicitors may get less than £60m a year and not everyone will receive a 15% rise
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NewsNews focus: North-west firm hails landmark SC victory on fee recovery
Supreme Court decision to uphold law firm’s appeal in fight to recover costs from airline flight compensation hailed as victory for innovation and boost for access to justice.
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NewsNews focus: Legal Action Group at 50
Legal Action Group, 50 this year, comprises a ‘small body of people doing a hell of a job’. But the communitarian spirit that gave rise to such organisations is long gone, making its job much harder now.
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NewsNews focus: Call of duty thrown into stark relief
High Court backs top silk in multi-million-pound professional negligence claim, ruling that he did not owe a duty of care to third parties
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NewsNews focus: Russia – City firms scramble to quit Moscow
Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights. The retreat from Moscow began in earnest this week, as the global legal elite finally opted to cut their losses.
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NewsNews focus: Ukraine backlash - profession hits back over 'amoral' allegations
London lawyers representing Russian clients are facing a barrage of criticism following the imposition of sanctions. The attacks may be wrong and unjustified – but is that a message anyone wants to hear?
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NewsNews focus: Master of the rolls' vision for smarter contracts
The Smarter Contracts initiative envisages replacing 4 billion international trade paper contracts with digital versions – thanks to blockchain technology. Now the law needs to catch up.
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NewsNews focus: Legal ombudsman - a rebalancing act
The legal ombudsman insists proposed reforms allowing for cases to be disposed of pre-investigation and for a one-year time limit on complaints are the best routes to long-term sustainability.
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NewsNews focus: No-fault divorce looms but closure of online portal blindsides solicitors
A long-awaited era of no-fault divorce is dogged by uncertainty pending the ‘shambolic’ closure of the online portal. So with only weeks to go before the law changes, what are solicitors telling clients?
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NewsNews focus: Lords verdict -JR reform is out of order
Far from putting ‘remedial tools into the judicial toolbox’, the Judicial Review and Courts Bill is under attack from peers for ‘tilting the playing field’ against those seeking to hold public authorities to account.
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NewsNews focus: Six things people get wrong about threats to judicial independence
Campaigning thinktank Policy Exchange continues to fuel debate about the limits of judicial independence. What if critics who allege ministers are bent on constitutional vandalism have got it wrong?
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NewsNews focus: Remodelled emergency legal aid housing scheme not yet fit for purpose
Experts have welcomed the government’s ambition to take a more rounded approach to housing issues, but plans to remodel the emergency scheme for tenants facing eviction appear flawed.
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NewsNews focus: The apprenticeship route into law
In National Apprenticeship Week, law firms explain why they have embraced a route into the profession which is proving a lifeline for aspiring solicitors who cannot afford the traditional path.