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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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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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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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NewsDynamic duo
Armed with only an acoustic guitar and a cello, a pair of former Ashurst trainees have been making a noise in the City.
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NewsIt’s like this, yer ’onour
We all know it is now a requirement for politicians to drop their aitches if they want to appeal to the masses.
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NewsPresident Hale marks the wrong countdown
Premature four-minute warning in insurer-claimant case.
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NewsPhysician, heal thyself
Solicitors live in fear of a knock at the door from the heavies of the Legal Ombudsman. But what happens if the complaints-handler itself fails to satisfy?
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NewsPetty treason
Justice minister Dr Phillip Lee wandered off-piste last week while musing on Brexit.
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NewsName game to blame for crime
James Morton ponders the link between names and criminal behaviour.
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NewsMany happy returns of Cash for Crash Day
Stroke of luck for insurers that it falls in a quiet news day...
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NewsWhite Knight
Richard Burgon, solicitor and MP for East Leeds, took time out from haranguing the government over prisons privatisation last week to attend to a much more important constituency matter.
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NewsOver the line advertising
Staying with a sporting theme, we note that while the introduction of video referees has received a mixed reaction in football, the ‘third eye’ is long-established in other sports.
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NewsWe’ll always have Dudley, darling
Brierley Hill, near Dudley, may be charming but it is no Love Island. Midlands firm Higgs & Sons may disagree, however.
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NewsPersonal injury? I’m not keen
The personal injury sector seemed to suffer a social media meltdown following the appearance of Lord Keen of Elie before the Commons justice committee last week.
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NewsTough questions over hard cases
The very disparate cases of John Worboys, Jon Venables and Ben Stokes (pictured) highlight some of the topical problems of the criminal justice process. James Morton Taking Stokes’ case first, last week the England cricketer was charged with affray over an alleged incident outside a nightclub in ...
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NewsOffice politics
Newly appointed justice minister Rory Stewart, meanwhile, had a bit of a culture shock on moving to the Ministry of Justice’s building in Petty France.
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