All News articles – Page 406
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NewsSRA pleads with Supreme Court to avoid adverse costs orders
Competition appeal has potential to create 'defensive mindset' on prosecution decisions.
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NewsAddleshaw Goddard’s pre-tax profits up by a third
International firm’s highest-paid partner drew £1.61m last year, a 47% increase on the previous year.
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NewsWhen the law lords skipped a light fandango
Members of the highest court got down with the ageing hippies in landmark 2008 ruling.
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NewsAutomated contracts ‘happening now’ says master of rolls
Next phase of government-backed LawtechUK initiative promotes 'smarter ways of contracting'.
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NewsVos halts PI fees appeal after wider issues raised
‘Ramifications seem to me and to us to be more profound than had appeared before we started the case,’ master of the rolls tells court.
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NewsFirm hire: Senior litigation associate joins Primas Law
North West-based law firm welcomes Carl Sebastian to its litigation team.
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News'Shambolic': family lawyers told divorce service will close soon
Practitioners worried that transition to new system will leave couples unable to officially split up.
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NewsLaw firms feature strongly in Stonewall's employer rankings
Magic circle firms Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May lead 14 firms in top-100 list of most inclusive employer.
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NewsMoJ working towards mid-March for legal aid response
Gazette understands meeting will take place with criminal bar ahead of practitioners being balloted on action.
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NewsLegal app ad using the word ‘shyster’ cleared of causing offence
Complainant to Advertising Standards Authority said word was derogatory term to describe Jewish people.
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NewsFixed costs: Housing specialists gather evidence on legal aid consequences
Housing Law Practitioners Association says new regime poses significant threat to provision of quality advice, assistance and representation.
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NewsMaster of the rolls adjusts his dial
Masks and wigs were off as the Court of Appeal turned steamy for costs hearing.
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News‘Reeling’ PI market needed fees solution, Court of Appeal hears
Appeal in Belsner v CAM opens with arguments about ‘stark consequences’ for profession.
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NewsPost Office disclosure could be used against lawyers before SDT
The SRA can use documents provided by the Post Office ‘in any disciplinary proceedings issued in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’.
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NewsFirms with offices in Kyiv ready to act as Russia crisis escalates
Foreign Office has advised that British nationals in Ukraine should leave the country.
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NewsRecord year for Hogan Lovells as PEP surges to £1.8m
International firm says total global revenues up 5.5% last year to nearly £1.9bn, pushing profits per equity partner up by 17.5%.
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NewsLeeds Law Society president appointed Gordons' diversity and inclusion head
Commercial litigation solicitor Catherine Woodward qualified as a solicitor in the firm’s dispute resolution department in 2015.
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NewsTwo bloody difficult women - and a QC
Lord Pannick is to play Lord Pannick in a stage drama about the ‘Enemies of the people’ case.
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NewsJudges told to stay ‘above the fray’ in cases with LiPs
Appeal court says judges cannot take 'inquisitorial role' to help unrepresented litigants.
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NewsCBA prepares to issue ballot papers on legal aid action
Jo Sidhu QC says barristers and solicitors cannot afford to wait until 2024 for an increase in fees.