Paul Rogerson
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OpinionContingency plan
A contingent legal aid fund: talked and written about for decades, to no avail.
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City could fund legal aid to save reputation of English law - top judge
Lady Justice Hallett warns City of London Corporation that rival jurisdictions are primed to exploit the degradation of our legal system.
- Profile
Magic touch
New Law Society president Simon Davis is determined to combat a collapse of trust in the professions which dates back to the financial crisis. But how? Paul Rogerson reports
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Serco fraud: Deferred prosecution critics ‘cynical’, says judge
Mr Justice William Davis approves the UK’s fifth DPA over fraud against Ministry of Justice.
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Roads well travelled
A record 15,000 walkers from 886 registered teams raised over £850,000 by completing the London Legal Walk.
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Mister and missives
When social convention intrudes, there is more at stake than linguistic dogmatism.
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Competition mission
Leafing through a yellowing copy of the Independent, I note that it is 25 years since (pre-Blairite) Labour dubbed the late Monopolies and Mergers Commission a ‘laughing stock’. Again and again the ‘toothless’ watchdog comes down on the side of big business against the consumer, declared the opposition, calling for ...
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Listed firm Ince Gordon Dadds shakes up its brands
Most affiliated entities, including the international offices acquired from Ince, will be known as Ince.
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What austerity looks like
The Association of Her Majesty’s District Judges’s scathing verdict on the courts reform programme speaks for itself.
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Don’t be CRAP (LLP)
How would the CEO of Cursory Relationships Are Profitable provide an optimally poor service to clients?
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Deregulation trumps all
Just as deregulation is about tackling protectionism, it is also about tackling protections.
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Lightening the load
City regulation post-Brexit means ‘same outcome, lower burden’ for FCA’s chief executive.
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Class of 2019
Traditionally the Cinderella of the diversity industry, perhaps social class figures are the next dataset to be disclosed by Big Law.
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Law firms report higher profits for ninth year in a row - but work is slowing
Annual benchmarking survey shows majority of practices in good health, but this year income is not expected to rise by much more than inflation.
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Small and medium-sized law firms' income up for seventh year
Median fee income climbed 4.2% in 2018 across 210 firms who participated in the Law Society Law Management Section Financial Benchmarking Survey.
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Beating the benchmark
Small and medium-sized law firms’ revenue has increased across all regions and most types of work.
