News – Page 204
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NewsNew draft of Saatchi bill seeks to calm fears
Revised Medical Innovation Bill to be introduced to House of Lords this week.
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NewsRacial disparity ‘an issue’, SRA agrees
Regulator accepts Gus John’s findings that black and minority ethnic solicitors are disproportionately represented in regulatory activities.
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NewsGrayling promises to protect volunteers from ‘compensation culture’
The government has proposed a ‘Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill’.
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NewsCPD reform plan ‘could ruin market for training’
At least one leading provider has already ceased trading as a result of SRA’s decision to drop mandatory requirement.
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NewsMoJ set to clash with bar over PDS expansion
MoJ spokesman said the lord chancellor is ‘entirely supportive’ of the independent, self-employed bar.
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UK will be ‘gangster haven’
Opt-out from justice measures will make UK a sanctuary for crime bosses, says QC.
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NewsGoogle bows to European court decision
Privacy specialists say web giant’s ‘right to be forgotten’ policy is a positive step.
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NewsBarrister who failed to pay tribunal fine to be disbarred
Unregistered barrister Christopher Mills failed to pay a £5,335 fine imposed by the Bar Standards Board for holding himself out as a barrister.
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NewsSolicitor denied judicial post loses challenge
Graham Stuart Jones’s application to become a district judge was rejected because he had seven penalty points on his driving licence.
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NewsBarrister tax cheat disbarred
Edward Paul Agbaje was jailed after failing to pass on VAT charged to clients.
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NewsCommission calls for review of hate crime
Law Commission proposes extending aggravating features of offending.
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NewsJR proceedings begin over legal aid cuts
The two main criminal solicitor groups launch challenge to the government’s decision to press ahead with reforms.
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NewsReding claims direct backing of voters
EU justice commissioner elected to European parliament and says EU justice policies on course.
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NewsJudge shuns Mitchell stance in ‘interests of justice’
Eady: wrong to have justice ‘compromised merely for the sake of discipline or the marking of disapproval’.
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NewsLandmark whistleblowing case could ‘open floodgates’
Employment lawers say the Bates van Winkelhof case could open firms to more claims.
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NewsFirm loses negligence case in appeal court
Firm lost a negligence case against former client, then told the court his claim was not believable.
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NewsFailure to fund child’s expert report unlawful
The Court of Appeal ruled the LAA was wrong not to pay the full costs of a report in case where only the child and not the parents were publicly funded.
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NewsAnnual declaration replaces CPD hours
Onus will be on firms and solicitors to pledge commitment to CPD.
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NewsCourt of Appeal overturns stay in case hit by bar boycott
The trial against five defendants charged with fraud will continue after the court overturned the stay.
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NewsWhistleblowing judgment: partners are ‘workers’
Partners should be treated as ‘workers’ for the purpose of employment legislation, rules Supreme Court.