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Students ‘pessimistic’ about training contracts
A survey of almost 600 law undergraduates has found that around half are ‘pessimistic’ about obtaining a training contracy
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83 jobs to go in Hill Dickinson shake-up
Top-50 firm Hill Dickinson has confirmed 83 job losses as a result of a restructure of the business.
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NewsNHS claims surge by 66% in just four years
The head of the NHS Litigation Authority has denied that rocketing claims figures indicate increased negligence in the NHS. Catherine Dixon, the authority’s chief executive, spoke after this month’s damning Keogh review into death rates at hospitals across England. The report is expected to prompt a new rash of claims ...
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Capita contract translates into £15m
Outsourcing company Capita received £15m in 2012/13 from its troubled contract to provide courtroom interpreting services, the Ministry of Justice has revealed.
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TSol set for major recruitment push
Whitehall’s central legal services provider the Treasury Solicitors Department (TSol) is to recruit 40 lawyers after spending nearly £4.6m on temporary staff through outsourcer Capita, the Gazette can reveal. The recruitment campaign is for advisory, commercial, employment and litigation lawyers at civil service grade 7, with salaries between £47,086 and ...
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NewsMPs have hearts, too
The green shoots of recovery are at last peeping through the arid soil of austerity as one deserving group of public sector workers are promised an inflation-busting 9% pay rise just days before laying down tools for their six-week summer break. I refer, of course, to our members of parliament ...
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First grants from Foundation
The legal education charity established with a £200m endowment following last year’s sale of the College of Law to private equity firm Montagu has awarded its first six grants, amounting to around £550,000. The grants were announced at the launch of the Legal Education Foundation (LEF). Guy Beringer, former managing ...
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How the making of a film highlighted use of tax loopholes
Denis Healey once said that the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the width of a prison cell. The case of R v Richard Driscoll and Others pushed the boundaries of tax avoidance to breaking point.
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NewsEarning ironman spurs
Congratulations to Philippa Rudd (pictured), partner at Norwich firm Cozens-Hardy, on becoming an ironman.
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Saunders is new DPP as job goes to insider
Alison Saunders will succeed Keir Starmer QC as director of public prosecutions at the Crown Prosecution Service, the attorney general announced today. She joined the CPS in 1986, the year it was set up, and is the first DPP to be appointed from within the ranks of the prosecuting agency. ...
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‘Dismay’ as new LCJ named
The new process for appointing the lord chief justice has come under fire after Downing Street confirmed the appointment of Sir John Thomas, a white, privately educated Cambridge graduate, to the post ahead of the widely tipped Lady Justice Hallett. In a letter to The Times, barrister and arbitrator Lord ...
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Regulator defiant over licensing One Legal
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has defended its decision to grant an alternative business structure licence to a company owned by Trevor Howarth, the legal director of Stobart Barristers, who faces a possible trial for contempt of court. The SRA last week licensed One Legal, a company set up in September ...
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Ombudsman tries to extend reach as job cuts loom
The Legal Ombudsman will next week set out plans for a voluntary scheme to cover unregulated parts of the legal sector. A discussion paper will be released just days after proposals to cut 10% of its staff were confirmed. The ombudsman told workers this week that 25 roles are being ...
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Jurors deny contempt for Facebook and Google use
Two former jurors have been charged with contempt after posting comments on Facebook and using Google for research. Attorney general Dominic Grieve personally brought the case against Kasim Davey, 21, in the High Court for allegedly posting on Facebook: ‘Wooow I wasn’t expecting to be in a jury deciding a ...
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‘Corporation’ future considered for courts as government denies sell-off
An ‘independent public interest corporation’ may take over the ownership of courts and tribunals, the government revealed today. In a letter to judges on plans to reform HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), the lord chancellor Chris Grayling, the lord chief justice Lord Judge and the senior president of tribunals ...