All News articles – Page 1176
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NewsDuncan Lewis in recruitment push
UK’s largest legal aid firm is looking to recruit in the wake of collapsed providers that have left an ‘advice desert’ in Birmingham.
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LSB pledges to cut costs
The Legal Services Board has said it will reduce its budget by £150,000 in the 2014/15 year.
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Firms rebuked over compliance failure
Three more firms have been rebuked for not having compliance officers in place by the start of 2013.
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Bench diversity move
Applicants to the bench who are female and from under-represented ethnic groups could be chosen ahead of white men of equal merit.
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NewsRaising the bar: from protest songs to messiah
More harmonious choruses are on the way from the bar.
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Asbestos evidence call
Select committee calls for written evidence on the government’s decision to bring mesothelioma claims under LASPO arrangements.
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NewsLegal aid ruling saves ‘rape victim’ from court trauma
The client’s public funding was withdrawn after she enrolled on a university course.
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Legal friendship across the pond
Manchester Law Society has signed a friendship agreement with the Philadelphia Bar to form and develop a working relationship.
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NewsFury at MP’s ‘solicitor from hell’ question to prime minister
North-west firm posts online statement following House of Commons question.
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NewsMinister grants legal aid for Brixton riot inquest
The family of shooting victim Cherry Groce has been given exceptional funding to be represented at the inquest into her 2011 death.
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NewsConveyancing firm must pay £100k over valuation
Judge orders law firm to halve the costs of settlement with surveyors.
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NewsWasted costs order quashed against ‘no returns’ barrister
A judge has ruled that a barrister whose case was affected by protest action acted entirely properly.
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NewsLawyers predict fee bonanza if Scots go it alone
Scottish solicitors expect ‘piles of work’ but government legal jobs in England would disappear.
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NewsIndependent Scotland ‘ready to compete with London’
New state would target global arbitration work, while supreme court for Scotland will not be just a ‘naming exercise’.
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NewsBlacklaws quits troubled Co-Op
Leading family lawyer Christina Blacklaws has left Co-operative Legal Services to set up an ABS consultancy.
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NewsBar votes to accept MoJ legal aid deal
Direct action to be suspended after two-to-one majority vote on fee deal.
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NewsLegal aid consultation ‘unlawful’, solicitors claim
Consultees, they say, did not have the opportunity to challenge the assumptions made in a report.
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MANCHES - A CORRECTION
On 13 December the Gazette published an article headed ‘Collapsed Manches failed to account for £165,000’. The article reported the Statement of Administrators Proposals in relation to the administration of Manches LLP. Following publication a number of matters have been brought to our attention. We accept that the reported allegation ...
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NewsRegulators agree to open data to comparison websites
The LSB and Legal Services Consumer Panel want to open up the market for 'choose a lawyer' websites.