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NewsAshes update stopped play
Does the BBC regard cricket as more important than legal aid? A heated discussion on Thursday lunchtime on BBC Radio 5 Live of the current action being taken by solicitors and barristers against the government’s cuts to criminal legal aid was interrupted halfway for an update on day 2 of ...
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NewsDead zones
Obiter hesitates to suggest how a coroner might go about boosting a district’s annual death rate by 1,000 or so.
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NewsVisitor attraction
Proceedings in the Supreme Court often disrupted by sandal-clad tourists and associated hubbub.
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NewsMemory lane
Law Society welcomes home secretary’s announcement to end year and a day rule for murder.
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NewsLords’ civil dispute writ large
Are there any other redoubts of pre-Woolf terminology out there?
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NewsAussies losing their grip on the Ashes
Could civil war break out over cricket at Slater and Gordon?
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NewsManchester legal aid rally: image gallery
Hundreds of solicitors gathered in Manchester to voice their opposition to legal aid cuts.
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NewsMothers-in-law love a lawyer
Lawyers are among the most sought after professions for a son- or daughter-in-law.
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NewsMen want only one thing from single solicitors
Play about legal aid cuts features some unexpected plotlines.
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OpinionMagnificent lawyers in flying machines
Nervous of flying? Spare a thought for the colleagues who faced flaming death pioneering it.
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NewsYour clients: following Stephen Fry in Waitrose
The ‘typical’ user of legal services is financially stable, earns at least £35,000 and is married or living with a partner, the profession was officially informed last week.