Last 3 months headlines – Page 1021
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Memory lane
The opening of family courts to the press is ‘moving at an unseemly gallop’, a leading High Court judge said.
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Psychiatric injury reform call
MPs have backed the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers campaign to reform the law on psychiatric injury.
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European venture for lit funder
Global litigation funder Bentham IMF has entered into a joint venture with a US-based investment advisory firm to establish operations in Europe.
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Cyber SOS team is go
A government-backed emergency response scheme for cyber attacks and other computer emergencies, CERT-UK, will be formally launched by the Cabinet Office today.
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SRA seeks to lift burden on sole practitioners
Sole practitioners will be allowed to apply for lifetime licences.
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Society argues against 'prescriptive' insolvency fees reform
Proposals part of a package of measures announced by the Insolvency Service.
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CoA orders defendant to pay interest on disbursements
Agreement between Cardiff-based Hugh James and industrial disease claimants proper and binding.
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Bar rebels over deal on legal aid cuts
Nigel Lithman QC told that the CBA has made a ‘grave mistake’ over deal with MoJ.
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Hundreds of millions promised to modernise courts
MoJ says programme will save more than £100m a year by the end of the decade.
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Kent gives green light to council ABS
County aims to tender for a commercial partner in the summer and will begin immediate discussions with the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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Alarm as Strasbourg backs bugging of lawyers’ client meetings
Law Society concerned at ruling in favour of Turkish authorities.
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Grayling quells concerns over whiplash panel
Concerns that medical reporting agencies could simply form an alternative business structure with a personal injury law firm.
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Bar calls off action after legal aid cuts are postponed
£9m also made available for interim payments to solicitors.
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Ernst & Young to enter UK legal market
Philip Goodstone, corporate managing partner at City firm Addleshaw Goddard, will join EY as a partner.
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Date set for costs budget exemption rise
£10m threshold will apply unless the parties agree to a higher limit or the court orders otherwise.
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Bank survey finds optimism soaring in SME legal sector
More than 90% of small and medium-sized firms believe their profits will grow or at least remain the same in 2014.
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300 jobs saved as Linder Myers secures new finance
Assure Law boss takes over as chief executive.
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Business and human rights ‘should be a legal training requirement’
Law Society's business and human rights advisory group says lawyers should follow UN guiding principles.
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Call to publish reporting restrictions online
Law Commission proposes a central website to inform publishers of reporting restrictions.