All News articles – Page 1220
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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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Promotions point to progress on gender equality
Female promotions at DAC Beachcroft and Linklaters increased significantly since last year.
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NewsMoJ heralds ‘Wi-Fi era’
Bromley Magistrates’ Court is the first magistrates’ court in London and one of the first in the country to be equipped with video presentation technology.
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NewsMore law firms face unrated PII threat
Survey results come weeks before the SRA decides whether to ban unrated insurers from the market after a glut of collapses in recent years.
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NewsLawyers set for mammoth festival
The International Festival for Business will run for six weeks in Liverpool in June and July.
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Wigan law firms merge
Long-standing Wigan firms Alker & Ball and Healds Solicitors are to merge.
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Litigation funding injection
Calunius Capital has announced a fresh injection of £50m into its legal investment fund.
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NewsMemory Lane
The home secretary announced that the integrated CPS will be headed by the director of public prosecutions under the attorney general.
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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 ...