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NewsBe more upbeat to stop junior lawyers quitting, criminal bar chief urges
Angela Rafferty QC says barristers and solicitors should join forces to tackle recruitment crisis rather than give in to despair.
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NewsPakistan's 'fearless' rights champion dies at 66
Campaigning lawyer Asma Jahangir was the first woman president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
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NewsBarristers 'more stressed' than NHS staff
Survey of members shows little appetite for flexible court opening hours.
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NewsUKIP hit with third-party costs bill in libel case
Exceptional ruling reflects the impact of ’deliberate and calculated’ decisions, says Mr Justice Warby.
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NewsSupreme Court set to hand down crucial litigant-in-person ruling
Appellant says he should have been granted special dispensation as he was unrepresented.
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NewsPregnancy question highlights lack of understanding about discrimination law
Survey by equality body shows that over a third of employers think it is reasonable to ask female job applicants about their baby plans.
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NewsSociety reports gender pay gap
The gap between men and women's pay at the legal profession's regulatory and representative bodies is 'substantially lower' than across the UK workforce as a whole, the organisations announced today. The 2017 gender pay gap report by the Law Society Group finds a median pay gap of 5.6% compared ...
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NewsDormant legal aid accounts to be closed
Legal Aid Agency will also ban shared accounts for security purposes.
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NewsListed firm builds Cardiff empire with £2m deal
Acquisition of Thomas Simon is the latest expansion move by firm with £20m war chest after stock market listing.
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News285-year-old firm is no stick-in-the-mud
Reading firm Blandy & Blandy LLP first took lease of 1 Friar Street at a rent of £4 a year in 1798.
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NewsBarristers slow to take up ABS option – BSB
Barristers appear to have shunned the idea of setting up alternative businesses structures licensed by the Bar Standards Board in the 10 months since the opportunity has been available, figures have revealed. An ABS structure allows non-lawyers to own part or all of a firm. The BSB’s approved ABS list ...
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NewsEe by gum! What an advert
Ison Harrison has released a new ad which Obiter says is like a John Lewis Christmas effort put through a Yorkshire filter.
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NewsNews focus: legal advice gateway to nowhere
The cancellation of a procurement offers an ideal opportunity to overhaul the way publicly funded advice on debt, discrimination and education is provided.
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NewsSRA weighs up Baker McKenzie assault claim
Alleged sexual assault by senior male partner at Baker McKenzie’s.
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NewsBAME boost? Just do the maths
Latest SRA data from its biennial diversity survey was published last week along with a stern injunction from chief executive Paul Philip that there is ‘much more to do to achieve a truly diverse profession’.
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NewsEvidence? Then spill the beans
The quarrel over non-disclosure, particularly in rape cases, rumbles on. I see that austerity is now being blamed for the failure of the police and Crown Prosecution Service to realise that, in some cases, complainants are not being wholly frank. I also see a suggestion that bobbies are to be ...
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NewsClinic needs help
A legal advice clinic set up by the University of Exeter is seeking volunteers.
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NewsHundreds of firms at risk from PI reform
The scale of law firms’ dependence on the personal injury market has been laid bare by new SRA figures.