Last 3 months headlines – Page 1002
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No evidence incentives encourage fraud – Society
Law Society responds to government announcement of measures against ‘bogus claims’.
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Osborne to extend Libor legislation
Treasury promises to crack down on rogue banks and traders by extending Libor legislation.
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Legal Charities Garden Party – gallery
Photos of last night’s 46th garden party at Lincoln’s Inn.
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Slater & Gordon chooses £1.3m-a-year Manchester hub
Mosley Street will be the firm’s largest office anywhere in the world, as well as the largest office of any legal firm in the city.
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Employment claims on ‘downward spiral’
Claims dropped 81% in the first quarter of 2014, official figures show.
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Core of ‘exceptional’ trial can be held in secret
The Court of Appeal named the two defendants and said that parts of their trial can be held in public, but the ‘core’ in secret.
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Court and councils face surge in denial of liberty cases
Court of Protection could be overwhelmed, head of family division warns.
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Bid to save legal aid for domestic violence victims
Two charities have brought an action to quash ‘restrictive’ evidential requirements needed to get legal aid.
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Jet2 flight delay ruling ‘opens floodgates’ to claims
Court rules that a technical fault could not be defined as ‘extraordinary circumstances’.
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Quindell suffers another blow with listing rejection
Share price falls as company fails to satisfy requirements for change in stock exchange listing.
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QASA fight pushes LSB legal spend up 10-fold
Accounts show regulator’s overall spending falling slightly.
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26-week care limit is not a straitjacket, says Hughes
The justice minister and top family judge give strong backing to London’s Family Drug and Alcohol Court at a Law Society conference.
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Tax policy confusion ‘hugely damaging’, say City lawyers
City of London Law Society calls for introduction of independent body to oversee all new tax legislation.
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Magistrates’ fining powers to be unlimited
Maximum fines for most offences will rise by 400% and become unlimited in the most serious cases, under powers to be put before parliament.
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SRA confirms another month of falling firm numbers
Just 30 firms closed in February – the most recent month that figures are available – but over the course of the past year 1,094 firms have gone.
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Public Defender Service adds three silks
The service now employs seven silks and 18 juniors, though ‘emergency measures’ have not materialised.
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Consumer panel to use FoI requests for lawyer data
Watchdog wants to collate more information on lawyers’ performance in the coming year.
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Legal aid ‘impasse’ forces top family judge to adjourn
Sir James Munby calls on justice secretary to intervene to decide who should pay for an unrepresented father’s case.
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PI lawyers ‘making too much money’ from process
Government seeks to justify plans for a ban on PI inducements.
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New hourly rates to hit firms using paralegals
Value per hour that can be recovered is vulnerable to a cut under the new guidelines, experts tell the Gazette.