Last 3 months headlines – Page 1171
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NewsCriminal bar issues legal challenge to QASA
The Criminal Bar Association has issued a legal challenge to the decision to press ahead with quality assurance scheme.
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NewsFirms face uncertainty as Berliner pulls plug
Solicitors face a race against time to find PII cover.
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NewsTear up Legal Services Act and start again, says LSB
The Legal Services Board wants to set in motion plans for a single, independent regulator for the entire profession.
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NewsSRA plans referral checks on PI sector
Supervision officers to visit personal injury firms of all sizes to assess compliance with fee ban.
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Fee remission reforms to go ahead
The government has approved plans to means-test waivers for civil court and tribunal fees
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NewsRegulatory system 'dysfunctional' - City lawyers
The City of London Law Society says the cost of regulation is close to getting out of control.
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Thinktanks call for greater autonomy in courts
‘Conservative’ courts should be opened to local discretion empowerment, two thinktanks say.
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News‘Panic’ over CMC disclosure demand
Some personal injury firms are ‘in a state of panic’ over a government review of their dealings with claims management companies.
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NewsMoJ puts regulation shake-up on hold
The government has dampened speculation about an imminent review of legal services regulation.
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NewsLaw graduates lose out in earning stakes
Students who want to be high earners after graduation should choose almost any subject – even social studies – other than law, research says.
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MoJ lags on data
The Ministry of Justice is well behind the prime minister’s transparency commitments for all departments to publish details of items of spending above £25,000.
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NewsIn-house to do more high-value work
The growth of in-house legal departments will slow and general counsel will take on more of the work traditionally provided by private firms, according to Julia Chain, MD at Huron Legal.
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News‘Disturbing reduction’ in take-up of civil legal aid
The Legal Action Group calls on the government to increase the profile of civil legal aid services after figures show a huge shortfall in take-up this year.
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NewsFont of inspiration
Obiter applauds any attempt to save taxpayers’ money in these austere times.
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NewsRussian gold
Just as the Great Train Robbers needed a lawyer to help launder the money, so did the First Great Train Robbers, writes James Morton. They removed gold intended to pay soldiers in the Crimea from an apparently secure van on the London to Folkestone train on 15 May 1855. This ...
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Appeal court broadcasting rules drafted
The government has set out draft rules for broadcasting from the Court of Appeal.
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Criminal bar chair appointed
Nigel Lithman QC has been appointed chairman-elect of the Criminal Bar Association for 2013/2014.
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Practices rethink partnership
Only half of firms have reviewed their partnership structures ahead of proposals to overhaul the taxation of LLPs.
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Mentally vulnerable put at risk by ‘postcode lottery’
Mental health solicitors have accused the government of allowing a ‘postcode lottery’ to develop that deprives thousands of mentally vulnerable people of safeguards guaranteed by legislation. The solicitors claim that a ‘postcode lottery for patients’ has led to ‘wide regional variations’ in the use of safeguards implicit in the Mental ...