All News articles – Page 172
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NewsFormer City traders set to take legal fight to Supreme Court
Tom Hayes, jailed for rate-rigging, calls for UK legal system to 'align with the rest of the world' and for 'these miscarriages of justice to be corrected.'
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NewsCivil legal aid crisis: Family provider spends £40k a year to triage enquiries
Law Society calls on government to use the study to set fees at a realistic and sustainable level.
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NewsMagistrate given formal advice over ‘untruth’ about fellow magistrates
Complaint was made to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office that the magistrate had spread a ‘lie’.
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NewsReceptionist who couldn’t say law firm’s name loses at tribunal
Temporary receptionist ‘acted unreasonably’ in pursuing employment claims against Wykeham-Hurford Sheppard & Son.
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NewsHigh Court finds anti-protest legislation unlawful
Lord Justice Green and Mr Justice Kerr uphold two of campaign group Liberty’s four grounds of legal challenge against government.
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NewsEmployment tribunal hearings delayed to 2026
Targets not being met for recruiting judges to handle huge backlog of cases.
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NewsSanctions bite as UK courts lose out on Russian cases
London's international appeal remains strong, with record numbers of foreign litigants.
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NewsPost Office live: Paula Vennells 'did not know' her organisation prosecuted people
Paula Vennells, chief executive of Post Office Ltd from 2012 to 2019, makes her long-awaited appearance before the public inquiry, for the first of three days of questioning.
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NewsBar watchdog handed extra powers
BSB will be able to impose interim curbs on a barrister’s freedom to practise where misconduct has been found.
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NewsCEO of top litigation funder warns against ‘unthoughtful’ industry reforms
Burford boss Christopher Bogart dismisses fee caps as a ‘dumb idea’ - but the company is comfortable with the looming prospect of regulation.
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NewsHigh Court hears landmark legal aid challenge over school exclusion appeals
Claimant's lawyers say case is about access to justice in an 'important and sensitive area'.
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NewsFirm to pay for staff to get neurodiversity assessment and help
International practice vows to uphold a ‘culture of greater awareness and understanding’.
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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’.