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North west claims firm closes as key funder pulls capital
Director says AWH Solicitors was unable to secure funding for ongoing caseload: ’the market simply isn’t there’.
‘Unfair and unlawful’ SEND consultation facing challenge
Appeal over Qur’an burning acquittal dismissed
AI pioneer brands 'probabilistic' tech as unsuitable for law
'Game changing' AI listing to help clear court backlog
In depth: Mazur landmark appeal concludes
Court of Appeal hears from Julia Mazur
Land Registry tells PM Law clients to quickly instruct new solicitors
Jury curbs could price defendants out of legal aid
Witnesses and experts could be required to come clean on AI
Magistrate given formal advice for 'shouting'
Mazur Day Three: SRA submits decision should stand; Julia Mazur addresses court
Tick-box error not fatal to costs bill, Court of Appeal rules
Lammy unveils Courts and Tribunals Bill
Ex-solicitor jailed for 13 years over cell assaults
Campaign calls on solicitors to share their knowledge in schools
Magistrate sanctioned over campaign leaflet
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Mother in Law: Back to 'basics' - honing your CV
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
Best of the blogs - 28 Feb 2026
Missed our blogs this week? Here’s our top five…
Windrush Justice: a symposium to remember
Campaigners are doing an excellent job showing what a community-driven trauma-informed inquiry looks like.
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Partnership
My legal life: Smriti Sinha, Opus 2
Lawyer in the news: Asima Rana, DWF
Our legal lives: Ella Clarkson and Jagtara Taak
Lawyer in the news: Slade De Lacey, Amicus Law
My legal life: Laura Hadzik, JMW Solicitors
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Clinical negligence roundtable: Speaking up, speaking out
Health outcome statistics for women expose a ‘gender pain gap’. With a sky-high clinical negligence bill, how can law and lawyers work with patients, clinicians and health trusts to narrow the divide? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable.
DPM deadbats curveball
David Lammy is wily enough to have expected a curveball or two following his speech at London’s Excel centre.
Mazur mania at the RCJ
The Court of Appeal rarely attracts such a swarm that an overspill room has to be allocated.
Cricket club on the stump
What portends the arrival of lazy summer days and daze better than the dull thwack of leather on willow? Soon it will be time to dig out those battered old pads from the loft for another cricket season. If it ever stops raining.
Sorry Sir Brian, it’s thumbs down
I see that an upskirting case scheduled for four days before a district judge has been fixed for December 2027. How on earth has this been allowed to happen?
Novice solicitor lied about university career to get City job
Former in-house practitioner ‘created a persona that he thought was required for a role in private practice’.
Crime and consent: False positives
Oatly’s defeat: this article does not contain milk
Ten years of controlling or coercive behaviour
Esoteric investments and mental capacity
Could a defence union for solicitors actually work?
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All the latest news from Solicitors Regulation Authority
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SRA intervention into PM Law Ltd
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Update on the SRA's investigation into PM Law Ltd group
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SRA intervention into PM Law Ltd
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FCA and SRA issue joint warning to firms representing motor finance commission claims
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The SQE: Four Years On - new report highlights diversity and assesses factors affecting performance
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SRA warning notice over 'no win, no fee' practices
Firm hire: Asserson welcomes legal director
Firm hire: Real estate appointments at Addleshaw Goddard
Firm hire: Harrogate Family Law welcomes senior lawyer
Firm hire: Senior employment lawyer joins Blandy & Blandy
Firm hire: Grosvenor Law welcomes white collar crime lead
Firm hire: Maguire Family Law appoints Manchester head
Firm hire: Family law specialist joins mfg Solicitors
Firm hire: Residential property partner appointment at Ramsdens
Thorough examination
Tom Proverbs-Garbett reviews 'Furmston and Tolhurst on Privity of Contract (2nd edition)'.
Lessons from the alehouse
James E Hurford reviews 'An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'.
Flawed play book fails to realise its potential
Lee Wall reviews 'Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Sports Law'.
In our hour of need
James E Hurford reviews 'Time Management for Lawyers: Making Every Six Minutes Count'.
Privacy and the death of nuance
Henry Sturm reviews 'On Privacy and Technology' by Daniel J Solove.
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