All News articles – Page 717
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News'Trust in solicitors on the line': Society calls on profession to help block 'dangerous' deregulation
Legal Services Board is considering regulator’s proposals for changes to handbook.
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NewsSupreme Court ruling renews cohabitation warning
Family lawyers highlight lack of awareness among unmarried couples about their rights when a partner dies.
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NewsPI referral fee ban not working, MoJ told
Forum of Insurance Lawyers says SRA survey underestimates degree to which claimant businesses breach LASPO.
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NewsPM's 'great' Nigeria partnership sidesteps practising rights issue
Government announced initiative as part of ‘Legal Services are GREAT’ campaign.
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NewsCourts ID scheme hit by fees controversy ahead of pilot
Bar Council says it may need to charge a fee if fast-track entry scheme is rolled out.
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News80% of top firms sign up to bill-viewing platform
LawTech business Apperio raises £7.5m for expansion.
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NewsCCJs against consumers drop for first time in five years
Latest figures from the Registry Trust report statistics of judgments against both businesses and consumers.
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NewsHigh Court: 'no merit' to Kazakh's extradition fears in £4.6bn fraud hearing
High Court presiding over ‘one of the biggest fraud cases’ ever to come before English courts.
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NewsAnonymous LiP ordered to identify himself - nine months into action
Judge laments ‘remarkable state of affairs’ as ‘ABC’ attempts to sue Google without revealing his name.
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NewsFieldfisher partner nets £3m while Slaughter’s trainee pay rises again
Junior City lawyers continue to receive handsome wage increases.
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NewsAppointment: Hopwood makes partnership at McCormicks
Harrogate firm McCormicks Solicitors has appointed a new partner. Stephen Hopwood, who leads the firm’s family department, has been made a partner after five years at the practice. Stephen Hopwood, NcCormicks Stephen Hopwood Senior partner Peter McCormick said: ’We are very pleased that Stephen has become a ...
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NewsFirm hire: Fraser Brown appoints Julie Hutchinson
Julie Hutchinson and Anthony Ogley Julie Hutchinson and Anthony Ogley, Fraser Brown East Midlands firm Fraser Brown Solicitors has expanded its commercial property team with the appointment of solicitor Julie Hutchinson. With 12 years of legal experience, Hutchinson joins the firm’s Lincoln office on Kingsley Office Park, ...
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NewsMurderers have no right to be forgotten, ECtHR rules
Strasbourg court throws out attempt to anomymise 25-year-old reports of a celebrated murder case.
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NewsLegal services promotion key part of PM's Africa charm offensive
Joshua Siaw is only lawyer to join Theresa May's delegation to the continent, firm says.
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NewsGovernment urged to extend costs-shifting to JR
Public law charity told claimants would have to pay £90,000 upfront for £250,000 after-the-event insurance cover.
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News‘Robing room gossip’: Barrister who repeated false rape claim has suspension reduced
High Court finds bar tribunal’s original suspension was ‘manifestly excessive’.
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NewsEx-FBI lawyer begins life at Serious Fraud Office
Lisa Osofsky takes over today from David Green QC.
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NewsThird time lucky? Bolton solicitor sets up new firm
National Property Lawyers Ltd was incorporated on 3 July.
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NewsUN calls for Myanmar genocide prosecutions
Report by independent fact-finding mission raise possibility of independent criminal tribunal.
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NewsEmma Thompson film prompts independent advocacy call
Children's charity says The Children Act highlights the complicated circumstances in which decisions are made.