Last 3 months headlines – Page 163
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NewsInfected blood scandal: inquiry chair demands statutory duty of candour
Sir Brian Langstaff outlines key recommendations and calls for government to make a meaningful apology.
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NewsMR hails digital justice watershed - but disowns his ‘famous “funnel”’
Master of the rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos says CPRC will ‘provide a set of open digital standards to enable existing digitisation to be coordinated’.
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NewsPost Office worried about optics of employing ‘more assertive’ lawyers
General counsel Jane MacLeod said City firm would make Post Office seem like corporate bullies.
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News'Satoshi' impersonation 'a serious abuse of court's process' judge concludes
'Slippery' witness Craig Wright ‘not nearly as clever as he thinks he is’, finds judgment following six-week Rolls Building trial.
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News'Catalogue of failures' caused infected blood scandal - inquiry
Solicitor for 1,500 victims and their families says inquiry has delivered 'no-holds-barred, hard-hitting report'.
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NewsSRA waives £63k fine to protect creditors of collapsed firm
North-west firm submitted 100,000 claims in 18 months but did not do necessary checks.
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NewsOperation Early Dawn 'effectively holding defendants incommunicado'
Emergency measure triggered by lord chancellor to ease prison capacity pressures left law firm in the dark over client.
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NewsManchester firm says £12m bank facility will fast-track acquisitions
Horwich Farrelly says it has ‘numerous targeted’ conversations about potential purchases.
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NewsSenior judge predicts AI will transform the role of experts
Sir Keith Lindblom reassures expert witnesses they will not be made redundant by new technology.
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NewsIn depth: MoJ mulls 'moving the dial' on compulsory mediation
As new measures are introduced for small claims, the MoJ is considering mandatory referral to mediation in higher-value cases
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NewsSRA loses appeal against £75k tribunal costs order
High Court finds Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal was entitled to make order over ‘flawed’ proceedings.
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NewsFormer Post Office GC ‘won’t co-operate’ with public inquiry
Inquiry told that former general counsel lives abroad and is declining to appear.
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NewsIn depth: MPs hear pleas to mandate upfront information in house sales
Mandating upfront information would ‘revolutionise’ the home buying and selling process, MPs hear. Sharing up to 300 pieces of information would provide more certainty that the transaction is going ahead.
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NewsCybersecurity support bolstered as chambers suffers suspected attack
Disaster recovery, business continuity and device management added to questionnaire by professional bodies following feedback.
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NewsGuidance for solicitors on supporting disabled workers
Many law firm technologies ’present barriers to accessibility’, Law Society says.
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NewsDrop CILEX plan and focus on your core duties, Society chief tells SRA
Chancery Lane chief executive says council members would need to approve changes to allow regulatory takeover.
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NewsOperation Early Dawn a 'compliance nightmare'
Solicitors warn of dire impact as plan to ease prison overcrowding is activated.
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News'Cows kill more pedestrians': Solicitors split on dangerous cycling offences
Amendment to Criminal Justice Bill a ‘distraction’ from ‘shameful statistics’ on road deaths, alleges Leigh Day's PI chief. But 'Mr Loophole' is in favour.
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NewsFirms to face new demands to raze 'wall of silence' on complaints
LSB says there needs to be ‘step-change improvement’ in complaint handling to ensure firms deal with them effectively, efficiently and fairly.
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NewsLeigh Day denies negligence over healthcare claim
Woman treated in the UAE, who alleges she lost her chance to claim amid uncertainty over which law applies, is seeking millions in damages.