All News articles – Page 101
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NewsPost Office Inquiry: Five legal issues Paula Vennells will have to address
Former chief executive will give evidence over the next three days.
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NewsSRA fines firm £121k after wrong amounts paid to beneficiaries
Norfolk firm failed to rectify client account shortage for eight years.
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NewsNo default costs penalty for failed fundamental dishonesty plea, rules CoA
Court says trial judge was entitled to rule out indemnity costs despite ‘baffling’ allegation.
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News'Get-rich-quick' claims dismissed as hopeless and abusive
Master says near-identical financial claims gave the appearance of deceit and contempt of court.
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NewsCourt approves sale of properties linked to Axiom Ince boss
Administrators have also secured a bankruptcy order against Pragnesh Modhwadia.
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NewsCapacity boost for Fleetwood after Blackpool court condemned
Two new courtrooms earmarked for Nightingale court after concrete problem closed Blackpool.
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NewsInfected blood scandal: inquiry chair demands statutory duty of candour
Sir Brian Langstaff outlines key recommendations and calls for government to make a meaningful apology.
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NewsMR hails digital justice watershed - but disowns his ‘famous “funnel”’
Master of the rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos says CPRC will ‘provide a set of open digital standards to enable existing digitisation to be coordinated’.
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NewsPost Office worried about optics of employing ‘more assertive’ lawyers
General counsel Jane MacLeod said City firm would make Post Office seem like corporate bullies.
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News'Satoshi' impersonation 'a serious abuse of court's process' judge concludes
'Slippery' witness Craig Wright ‘not nearly as clever as he thinks he is’, finds judgment following six-week Rolls Building trial.
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News'Catalogue of failures' caused infected blood scandal - inquiry
Solicitor for 1,500 victims and their families says inquiry has delivered 'no-holds-barred, hard-hitting report'.
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NewsSRA waives £63k fine to protect creditors of collapsed firm
North-west firm submitted 100,000 claims in 18 months but did not do necessary checks.
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NewsOperation Early Dawn 'effectively holding defendants incommunicado'
Emergency measure triggered by lord chancellor to ease prison capacity pressures left law firm in the dark over client.
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NewsManchester firm says £12m bank facility will fast-track acquisitions
Horwich Farrelly says it has ‘numerous targeted’ conversations about potential purchases.
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NewsIn depth: MoJ mulls 'moving the dial' on compulsory mediation
As new measures are introduced for small claims, the MoJ is considering mandatory referral to mediation in higher-value cases
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NewsSenior judge predicts AI will transform the role of experts
Sir Keith Lindblom reassures expert witnesses they will not be made redundant by new technology.
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NewsSRA loses appeal against £75k tribunal costs order
High Court finds Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal was entitled to make order over ‘flawed’ proceedings.
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NewsFormer Post Office GC ‘won’t co-operate’ with public inquiry
Inquiry told that former general counsel lives abroad and is declining to appear.
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NewsIn depth: MPs hear pleas to mandate upfront information in house sales
Mandating upfront information would ‘revolutionise’ the home buying and selling process, MPs hear. Sharing up to 300 pieces of information would provide more certainty that the transaction is going ahead.
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NewsCybersecurity support bolstered as chambers suffers suspected attack
Disaster recovery, business continuity and device management added to questionnaire by professional bodies following feedback.