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Super-regulator launches new workstreams with 9% budget rise
Access to justice, market analysis and consumer vulnerability are on the programme for 2023/24.
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Accountant granted injunction over hacking blackmail
Application approved following a private hearing without notice concerning ‘ongoing incident’.
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'Impact investors' needed to build justicetech ecosystem
Report by government-backed initiative notes 'tension' between access to justice and viable business propositions.
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Bhatia tells SDT he was 'fairy godmother' to pregnant employee
Leading criminal solicitor and former local law society president denies discrimination and failure to report to SRA.
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GCs criticise SRA for 'understating' severity of in-house challenges
Regulator urged to re-evaluate sector review to ensure risks correctly understood, framed and addressed.
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Bar chief caught in crossfire as row erupts over representing fossil fuel companies
Nick Vineall KC defends cab rank rule at church service, as over 100 lawyers - including six KCs - sign declaration that they will refuse to act for companies supporting fossil fuel projects.
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Challenger bank offers challenger legal support
Small business customers of Cashplus will get access to legal services including free 15-minute consultation.
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‘Time has come’: door opens at last to Indian legal market
Law Society hails ‘historic decision’ as India’s regulator publishes regulations allowing the establishment of foreign firms.
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One in 20 in-house solicitors 'pressured to suppress information'
SRA thematic review reveals tension between regulatory obligations and business priorities.
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Barrister who defrauded his grandmother disbarred
Unregistered practitioner fraudlently transferred some £11,000 from his grandmother’s account.
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Slater and Gordon in talks to sell entire whiplash book to rival
Merseyside firm opens exclusive talks to buy the portal claims-handling business.
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Chancery Lane unveils 21st Century Justice project
The role of solicitors in the digitalisation of the civil justice system among five areas of focus.
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Saudi Arabia grants first foreign licences to three law firms
Associations no longer permitted under changes to encourage practices to set up in the Kingdom.
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City firms' growth rate doubled in 2022
'Cautious optimism' as practices continue to defy wider economic gloom, annual survey suggests.
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Ince results delayed again as fourth deadline passes
Group needs to carry out 'further queries in the final stages of quality control in relation to historical accounting treatments'.
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Rushed pace of reform putting pressure on courts
Reforms must not come at the expense of justice, Law Society says.
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New 'laboratory' aims to plug the justice data gap
'Fundamental shift' needed to ensure that changes are underpinned by solid evidence.
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Prominent Russian lawyer sanctioned by UK
Firm's co-founder 'part of an opaque financial network connected to Putin'.
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Top government lawyers get 16% rise amid staff exodus fears
'Enhanced pay offer' has obtained ministerial agreement, Government Legal Department told.
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'The plagues will fall on you': Solicitor who sent 'inappropriate' emails struck off
'You are one step closer to your grave,' practitioner told opposing barrister.