All News articles – Page 814
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NewsLegal personality of the year 2018
The Gazette is looking for legal professionals who are ‘influential, inspirational and in the public eye’.
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NewsPioneering solicitor QC quits magic circle for chambers
Judith Gill hails 'exciting times for arbitration in Singapore’.
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NewsFraud authority sets ‘robo-lawyer' to work on cases
AI can work '2,000 times faster than a human lawyer’, SFO says.
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NewsHome sellers should be forced to provide upfront information, says trade body
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government says it will encourage sellers to be 'sale ready'.
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NewsSFO reveals new interim director
Successor to David Green has been appointed but cannot start immediately.
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NewsMake courts less intimidating for young adults, says think tank
Centre for Justice Innovation sets out blueprint to make court process easier to understand for defendants aged between 18 and 25.
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NewsDemand for business law rising but top-200 go niche as competition intensifies
Demand for commercial legal advice will rise over the next 18 months, according to an annual market bellwether*, but some sectors are becoming crowded with law firm teams created to serve specific industries. Of 180 large and SME businesses surveyed by IRN Research, most expect their demands for legal services ...
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NewsAll-female partner round at Winckworth Sherwood
Top-100 full-service law firm Winckworth Sherwood has promoted three female senior associates in its latest partner round. The appointments, effective 6 April, come from the education, employment and parliamentary practice groups. The new partners are Alexandra Dillistone in parliamentary, Louise Lawrence in employment and Anna Shadbolt in education. Winckworth Sherwood ...
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NewsConveyancing: dual representation off the table
Homebuying review rules out a single conveyancer, but Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government will look at banning referral fees.
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NewsWatchdog 'parks' regime change for senior City counsel
Financial Conduct Authority chief executive Andrew Bailey says Brexit has affected the watchdog's workload.
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NewsSuper-regulator: Legal aid is a matter for parliament, not us
Legal Services Board says it is not in a position to understand or comment on trade-offs involved in allocating tax revenues.
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NewsDozens of chambers join escalating bar action
Criminal solicitors call for ‘unity’ across the legal profession amid fears defendants may have ’unsuitable’ counsel foisted upon them.
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NewsAlarm at mass jailing of Turkish lawyers
Five professional associations, including the Law Society, have stepped up international pressure over what they say is the arbitrary arrest, detention and wrongful prosecution of lawyers in Turkey. In an open letter to the Turkish president, they call attention to reports that at least 580 lawyers have been arrested, 1,539 ...
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NewsWill the bashful barrister bare all?
Why the anonymity of the legal blogger who has become an indispensable source with new book?
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NewsFirst digital mortgage signed
HM Land Registry annouced the first digital mortgage deed has been entered into the Land Register.
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NewsNews focus: gender pay expectations gap
Excluding equity partners effectively allows many firms to constrict their gender pay gap. But the tide has turned and more realistic figures have come in — what do they tell us?
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NewsSmooth as Silk? Not quite...
The old dictum ‘You may have your choice of counsel but not the counsel of your choice’ seems to have cropped up recently in the Northern Ireland case over whether a defendant had to have a silk represent him. The question whether a good junior is better than a poor ...