All News articles – Page 9
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NewsHome Office ordered to improve Windrush compensation scheme
Parliamentary ombudsman says Home Office compounded grieving family's distress.
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NewsFirm hire: Chief operating officer appointment at Gowling WLG
Sarah Felger has held senior strategic and operational roles at CMS, Taylor Wessing, Irwin Mitchell and Womble Bond Dickinson.
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NewsFirm hire: Osbornes Law welcomes family partner
Melissa Arnold has specialised in family law for more than 20 years.
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NewsCarter-Ruck ‘engaged in furtherance of fraud’ by clients, SDT finds
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal allows disclosure of documents relating to alleged SLAPP.
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NewsTopping out ceremony for City’s £600m justice quarter
New complex will house 18 courtrooms and the new City of London Police HQ.
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NewsCriminal justice system failing disabled victims, says commissioner
Disabled victims are ’too confronted by impenetrable systems, inflexible procedures and dismissive attitudes’, says Baroness Newlove.
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NewsDifferent class: Senior judiciary staunchly 'elitist', but dial beginning to shift
Nearly two-thirds of senior judges are privately educated, but research by the Sutton Trust shows that the proportion is diminishing.
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NewsTax adviser legislation will place ‘undue burden’ on legal professionals, says Law Society
Conveyancers particularly at risk, as tax commentator Dan Neidle also warns that measures will not thwart ‘bad actors’.
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NewsSort out conveyancing to fix ‘broken’ homebuying process, says top mortgage lender
Respondents to a Santander survey complained of delays and uncontactable solicitors, as the sector continues to shrink.
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NewsImmigration contract terminated due to 'extraordinary chain of events'
Director believes firm would still have legal aid contract if founder who has since died had not fallen ill.
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NewsCosts order overturned over litigator's absent practising certificate
’The person conducting litigation must be authorised to do so, or fall within one of the exempt categories,’ rules Mr Justice Sheldon.
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NewsFamily court sitting days to be cancelled in 2026 reshuffle
Short hearings could be rescheduled and longer hearings double-listed in response to limited allocation.
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NewsFirm hires: Duo partner appointments at Foot Anstey
Fiona Campbell-White joins from Wilsons and Matt Spencer from Kingsley Napley.
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NewsRetired City partner sues Labour over council candidacy rebuff
Ex-Simmons partner fails with application for expedited trial in 'important case for the Labour party that needs to be taken seriously'.
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NewsLaw Commission U-turns on separate framework for disabled children
Critics said original proposal would have complicated the law and made it harder to identify children's wider needs.
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NewsLeading London firm doubles down on diversity targets
Mishcon De Reya stresses that it will retain detailed targets for wider representation of minority groups at the firm.
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NewsDisbarred silk resigns county cricket chairmanship
Barrister who lied about Oxford education steps down from Essex board within days of ban.
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NewsLate-qualified solicitor 'out of his depth' before career-ending mistake
Activity log revealed that practitioner removed client email to conceal fact he had not dealt with it.
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NewsMemory lane
Fixed fees for crime work, Enduring Powers of Attorney Act and the first woman to sit on the High Court bench: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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News'No more David v Goliath': New Hillsborough Law to level legal playing field
Government hails largest expansion of legal aid in a decade, in legislation that solicitor campaigner says could 'transform the face of British justice'.