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NewsRecords disclosure challenge reaches the Supreme Court
Human rights organisation Liberty says its client has been unable to move forward with her life due to minor offences committed in 1999.
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NewsGive us your hard figures, LASPO review team urges
Ministry of Justice says it receives 'largely anecdotal' evidence about impact of legal aid cuts.
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NewsStem cell appeal unites legal profession
Family of solicitors organises nationwide campaign to save five-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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NewsNothing Gauke-ward about a legal match
Lord chancellor leads a select XI against his neighbouring MP - who has a solicitor in the line-up.
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NewsBarrister aims for £10m payday as claims business joins listing rush
Anexo Group, formed from credit hire and legal services businesses, aims to raise £25m from initial public offering.
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NewsAnd so it begins…
The World Cup is upon us, meaning a month of early finishes and web browsers quickly minimised whenever the boss walks past. Luckily, England games fall in the evening or at the weekend, so absenteeism should not be the problem it was in previous tournaments. But with 5,500 foreign lawyers ...
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NewsMinister quits out of the Blue
Obiter feels for soft-Tory thinktank Bright Blue. It teamed up last week with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to present an agenda-setting conference ‘Fighting for Freedom: Conservatism, human rights and discrimination’. The idea was to reclaim the debate on human rights from the left. Keynote speaker Phillip Lee MP, ...
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NewsLaw enforcers struggle with electronic evidence challenges
Interrogation of director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders highlighted the justice system’s failure to adapt to the digital era.
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NewsRoyal Mail GC: data demonstrates your value
Hard data can help a general counsel (GC) demonstrate their legal team’s value to a business as well as cut its costs, Royal Mail’s GC told the Law Society’s flagship conference for in-house lawyers last week. Maaike de Bie In conversation with Stephen Denyer, the Society’s ...
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NewsMcFarlane LJ echoes Munby over family justice ‘disaster’
A national board set up to improve the performance of the family justice system and chaired by government ministers had not met for 17 months until recently, the president-designate of the family division has revealed. For this crucial co-ordinating body not to be functioning at a time of crisis ‘is ...
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NewsPimlico: solicitors split on future of ‘gig economy’
Supreme Court ruled that plumber should be considered a ‘worker’ and entitled to rights such as holiday pay, but judges are accused of ‘bottling’ the chance to ‘modernise’ employment law.
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NewsProfession keeps on growing as women form the majority
Ninety-five years after the profession admitted Carrie Morrison, women have overtaken men as a majority of practising solicitors.
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NewsLegal life on the ocean wave
Solicitors pitted their sailing skills against architects, barristers and MPs in the annual outing of the Law Society Yacht Club. The regatta featured races between classic 26-foot Mermaid-class keelboats operated by the Sea View Yacht Club on the Isle of Wight. The results were: First place – House of Commons ...
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NewsCoA awards £60k damages against 'unscrupulous' fake firm fraudsters
Lawyers say decision resolves decades of uncertainty around the application of exemplary damages.
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NewsEdward Argar MP joins justice ministerial team
Dr Phillip Lee replaced by another non-lawyer at Ministry of Justice.
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NewsLegal aid 'likely' for bereaved families at inquests, MoJ announces
Ministry of Justice says exceptional case funding guidance is being changed while officials listened to practitioners' frustrations.
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NewsHale, the primary school hero
An access to justice charity wants to publish an illustrated children's book about the Supreme Court president.