All News articles – Page 85
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NewsCCRC sets up case study hub to 'assist potential applicants'
Review body says it hopes the new hub will support its work investigating possible miscarriages of justice.
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NewsExceptions to the cab rank rule
In 25 years of practice, I never met a clerk who, if he or his master did not want a case, could not evade it.
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NewsIt ends as it began
Richard Nelson, who applied for a trainee position after seeing an advert in the Gazette, retires after 42 years with the same firm.
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NewsFighting talk
Hopes for a debate between the AG and his opposite number on their widely divergent visions of the rule of law received a boost last week.
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NewsStamp duty sing-a-long
Conveyancing director ends a busy and stressful period on a positive note.
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NewsNew threat to legislate as Sentencing Council row escalates
Mahmood 'extremely disappointed' by rejection of her request for new guidance to be revised.
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NewsLegal aid fee increase will be 'swallowed up' by NI rise, Society warns
Chancery Lane says the proposed rates are not enough given that solicitors have had no pay rise in 30 years.
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NewsRemembering WH Smith’s short-lived legal detour
Back in 2011, the retail giant agreed to host 500 ‘legal access points’ - endorsed by Amanda Holden.
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NewsCouncil law firm makes £575,000 loss after costly IT meltdown
Pathfinder Legal's business model is ‘to charge lower legal fees than other private sector options’.
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NewsSociety condemns Istanbul 'attack on the rule of law'
'We call upon the Turkish authorities to cease all actions of intimidation against the legal profession.'
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NewsWhiplash reforms have cut insurance costs, Treasury says
Government report reveals average savings of 4% for motorists, though benefits fall short of original £35 target.
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NewsOld Bailey cleaners strike over privatisation
City of London Corporation says TUPE transfer would have a ‘range of benefits’.
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NewsCosts order over consumer rights firm's unreasonable behaviour
Consumer Rights Solicitors (CRS) insisted its client’s claim had merit but discontinued it for 'commercial reasons'.
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NewsFirm hire: Intellectual property partners appointed at Edwin Coe
Dennis Lee joins the firm from Broadfield UK (formerly BDB Pitmans) and Lakmal Walawage joins from JMW Solicitors.
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NewsTop firms maintain gender targets in latest partner promotions
Promotions at Linklaters and TLT have elevated 41 lawyers to partner between them.
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News'This is an emergency': Crown court backlog reaches record high
Law Society says government cannot wait until criminal courts and sentencing reviews report back to take action.
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NewsFirm complains to HMCTS over 13-month probate delay
Roche Legal calls out inconsistency after another case took only two months to be processed.
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NewsLawyers promoting tax avoidance could be named
Crackdown targeting 'legal professionals' announced today could also base fines for errant advisers on 'the potential loss of tax revenue'.
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NewsFirm hire: Trio of senior associates join mfg Solicitors
Sophie Shakeshaff, Jonathan Skilbeck and Jack Robinson are specialists in wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney and estate administration.