Last 3 months headlines – Page 208
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NewsEmergency Rwanda bill: expect legal challenges, lawyers warn
Home secretary unable to state with certainty that bill is compatible with European Convention on Human Rights.
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NewsNew solicitor general named in Jenrick resignation shuffle
Barrister Robert Courts MP takes up the portfolio as Michael Tomlinson KC MP moves to Home Office.
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NewsBar chair renews call for training shake-up
Current system ‘cruelly disappoints’ almost half of those who aspire to become barristers but fail to obtain pupillage.
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NewsFirm wins legal aid fee for stayed indictment in 'swings and roundabouts' case
‘Solicitors entitled to enjoy the roundabout of two fees for two indictments’ in the nature of graduated schemes.
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NewsManchester no longer needs priority protocol in family court
Cafcass announces ending of scheme aimed at helping to ease system-wide pressures - though it remains in London and southeast.
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NewsEnergy giant Octopus buys lawyer-free divorce company
Group says deal to buy amicable continues its mission to ‘challenge convention’.
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NewsSRA hailed as ‘most sophisticated, mature’ regulator by overseer
Strong indication from Legal Services Board that it would approve merging of professions.
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NewsHudgell latest to take employee-ownership route
Founder to transfer majority of shares in national firm to an employee ownership trust.
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NewsSRA ducks and dives before depleted justice committee
Only four MPs turned up for the questioning of the Law Society and two regulators.
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NewsLSB plans independent review of Axiom Ince disaster
Law Society says solicitors should not pay a penny more until causes of shortage are known.
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NewsNew Rwanda treaty - but Society remains concerned
Chancery Lane says it is unclear how new agreement overcomes last month's Supreme Court ruling.
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NewsFirm entitled to dismiss trainee solicitor over emails, tribunal finds
Trainee failed to argue that dismissal was down to making protect disclosure and/or her pregnancy.
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NewsLaw lecturers' Twitter libel spat reaches court
Facebook post which was republished years later in a Twitter thread is at the centre of the High Court claim.
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NewsLadbrokes and Coral owner to pay £615m in deferred prosecution agreement
The DPA with Entain plc, the first in which the CPS is acting as a prosecutor, includes a £465m fine, £10m costs and a donation to charity.
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NewsExclusive: Liverpool solicitor Makin named as ‘AB/X’ in anonymity case
Judge throws out appeal, allowing Robin Makin to be named in connection with misconduct allegations referred to SRA.
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NewsEx-Eversheds employee banned for sexual touching on staff away day
Senior client development manager receives section 43 order for repeatedly grabbing colleague.
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NewsSolicitor struck off for keeping firm afloat with legal aid payments
The SDT said at the time of the firm’s administration, experts and counsel were owed almost £650,000.
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News‘Dereliction of your duties’: Post Office solicitor lambasted over conduct
Solicitor Jarnail Singh accused of ’rewriting history’ over his treatment of key witness.
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NewsProfessional negligence claim against international firm struck out
Judge finds ‘no reasonable ground’ for retired footballer’s claim against Charles Russell Speechlys.
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NewsLiP assault on judge in court was no isolated incident, say insiders
HMCTS had stressed following the Milton Keynes assault that such events are 'extremely rare'.