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News in focus – Page 8
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NewsNews focus: EU to clamp down on booming litigation funding sector
The EU is clamping down on what it sees as the worst elements of litigation funding, but UK funders say that those pushing for more regulation have failed to understand how the market works.
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NewsNews focus: All change at the MoJ - and expectations are limited
New justice secretary Brandon Lewis faces a daunting inbox, ranging from legal aid to court backlogs. And after threatening to breach international law, can he win over the profession?
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NewsNews focus: Universities step up to save Support Through Court
Former chief executive talks about the charity’s urgent campaign to raise money after the Ministry of Justice suddenly withdrew its funding.
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NewsNews focus: A white-collar wave of mesothelioma claims
Asbestos-related cancer is now hitting white-collar workers, 10 years after the first wave of claims began to subside.
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NewsNews focus: Khan disciplinary saga nears its end
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal rules that all 12 allegations against solicitor-advocate for dishonesty and failing to comply with court orders are proven. Sanction is expected today.
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NewsNews focus: It’s an ill wind - top City firms break profit records
PEP exceeding £2m is the new virility benchmark for magic circle firms. It has been a ‘perfect year’, but how long can the beanfeast continue?
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NewsNews focus: Serious Farce? Where now for the SFO and Lisa Osofsky
‘Mistakes, misjudgements’, disclosure failures and a looming jobs cull. The future appears bleak for the Serious Fraud Office and its embattled director Lisa Osofsky.
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NewsNews focus: CJC forum brainstorms costs reform
Costs lawyers convened at the Civil Justice Council last week to discuss another shakeup. Delegates offered robust opinions, but there was little consensus.
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NewsNews focus: Divorcing couples are increasingly seeking joint representation
Separating couples are increasingly asking to be represented by the same solicitor. Those involved believe this ‘one lawyer’ service could be the future – and not just for family law.
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NewsNews focus: Colston Four - AG accused of subverting jury system
The Colston Four case has led to accusations that the government is resorting to the Court of Appeal to attack the jury system and the European Convention on Human Rights.
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NewsNews focus: Barristers walk out of courts - can they win?
Criminal barristers stepped up their direct action over legal aid rates this week by walking out of courts across England and Wales. Their ‘strike’ appears rock-solid, but the government has given no indication yet that it is willing to come back to the negotiating table.
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NewsNews focus: Sole practitioners are fed up with unfair competition
Delegates at the annual SPG conference heard about problems unregulated legal providers are causing the profession and their clients. But there was better news on PII
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NewsNews focus: Liberalising data protection - neither straightforward nor popular
The high attrition rate of proposals aimed at liberalising data protection suggests that deregulation is neither simple nor popular.
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NewsNews focus: Lawyers drop Gerrard as white-collar crime saga continues
Lawyers desert former Dechert partner as UAE investment fund cites ‘dishonest and unscrupulous’ conduct of Neil Gerrard as reason for dropping defence to hacking claim.
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NewsNews focus: Legal profession finding new ways to treat trauma
A recognition that bearing witness to traumatic events can trigger mental health problems is prompting some law firms to take extra steps to safeguard the wellbeing of their staff.
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NewsNews focus: Strasbourg in the crosshairs
After the European Court of Human Rights grounded a plane set to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda, lawyers are debating what this means for the future of the European Convention.
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NewsExclusive: Solicitors probed over client loans to fund divorce cases
Vulnerable clients claim they were pressured by their solicitors into taking out high-interest loans to finance family litigation.
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NewsNews focus: Online resolution for SMEs is good to go
We now have a vision of what a financially self-sustaining online dispute settlement system for SMEs will look like. But who is going to take the plan forward?
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NewsNews focus: PO lawyer named in subpostmaster’s testimony
Former postmaster who was called a ‘thief’ amid the Post Office IT scandal tells of pressure from solicitor to drop his defence.
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NewsNews focus: Civil 'justice' is a postcode lottery
Analysis of 8,500 claims reveals stark regional differences in court delays, as ministers come under renewed pressure to address blockages. But long waits are common everywhere