All News focus articles – Page 22
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NewsIn focus: Cautionary notes on courts reform
A progress report on the courts modernisation programme suggests that not everything is going according to plan, but the government remains resolute in its commitment to the project.
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NewsNews focus: patent court's Brexit paradox
Simplifying Europe’s complex patent law landscape has taken many years of negotiation, but UK government rhetoric on sovereignty appears to contradict the final agreement.
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NewsNews focus: Siege mentality at APIL conference
APIL’s conference did little to dispel the perception of a personal injury sector perpetually in crisis, and the Civil Liability Bill will pile more pressure on beleaguered practitioners.
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NewsNews focus: Clicks and mortar
Everyone agrees that buying and selling a home ought not to be a labyrinthine process. But what will plans to fix the ‘broken housing market’ mean for conveyancers?
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NewsNews focus: gender pay expectations gap
Excluding equity partners effectively allows many firms to constrict their gender pay gap. But the tide has turned and more realistic figures have come in — what do they tell us?
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NewsNews focus: Coming clean on NDAs
With the Solicitors Regulation Authority taking a hard line on non-disclosure agreements, firms must assess whether they are covering up serious misconduct.
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NewsNews focus: local government lawyers battle dwindling budgets
Will the country’s first ‘social enterprise law firm’ reignite council interest in ABSs and inspire other lawyers in local government to follow in its footsteps?
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NewsNews focus: Bridging the diversity chasm
A Law Society survey on women in the law suggests that attitudes to gender equality are improving, but unconscious bias is still widely perceived to be a major problem.
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NewsNews focus: High priest of reform Jackson bows out
A decade on from accepting the ‘poisoned chalice’ of civil litigation costs, and with retirement looming, Lord Justice Jackson evaluates his successes and failures.
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NewsNews focus: Collision course over PI discount rate
Insurers and claimant personal injury lawyers crave clarity on the discount rate amid a blizzard of accusation and counteraccusation. But they may have to wait a while yet.
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NewsNews focus: legal advice gateway to nowhere
The cancellation of a procurement offers an ideal opportunity to overhaul the way publicly funded advice on debt, discrimination and education is provided.
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NewsNews focus: Breaking protocol on client capture
Edmondson v Haven has shaken to the core a tripartite arrangement between client, solicitor and insurer. Practitioners anxiously await a Supreme Court decision.
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NewsNews focus: In the spirit of full disclosure
Police forces and the CPS are attempting to tackle failures in criminal evidence disclosure, but how solicitors are paid for Crown court work must surely be part of the conversation.
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NewsNews focus: Judicial power and the left
An acclaimed new film depicts the US Supreme Court reining in Richard Nixon. Here, the time may be right for a left-right consensus over whether judicial power has gone too far
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NewsNews focus: new bar chair defends venerable business model
New bar chair Andrew Walker QC fiercely defends an old business model - if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
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NewsNews focus: what the budget means for solicitors
There were few surprises for solicitors in the budget, with stamp duty land tax and avoidance in the chancellor’s sights. Deep cuts to justice spending went unmentioned
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NewsNews focus: Don't blow a fuse over online civil court
Wary of previous IT fiascos, Whitehall has adopted an agile approach to building the online civil court envisaged by Lord Justice Briggs as part of a £1bn reform programme
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NewsNews focus: Damage limitation for clinical negligence
Claimant lawyers will cry foul, but politicians and civil servants are starting to talk about tort reform to stem the haemorrhaging of cash in clinical negligence actions.
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NewsNews focus: Conveyancing process faces brick wall
As research shows estate agents eclipsing solicitors in the popularity stakes, the government aims to address the bête noire of homebuying – the lengthy conveyancing process.
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NewsNews focus: Will mediation become compulsory?
Encouraging litigants to resolve conflicts through alternative dispute resolution is failing, raising the very real possibility of forcing ADR on the unwilling