Last 3 months headlines – Page 286
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News'Conveyancing crunch': workload rises as sector shrinks
Property transactions nearly double in a decade but number of firms to do the work has fallen.
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NewsNews focus: Landmark damages awarded in so-called 'revenge porn' case
In the first case of its kind in the civil courts, a woman was this week awarded £100k in damages for what counsel preferred to call ‘image-based abuse’. There are likely to be many more.
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NewsBarrister's claims against police dismissed as 'abuse of process'
Judge said barrister's 'approach to legal analysis...should be seriously discouraged'.
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NewsSaudi Arabia grants first foreign licences to three law firms
Associations no longer permitted under changes to encourage practices to set up in the Kingdom.
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NewsLawyer goes viral over email typo
Media lawyer's appearance on Sunday on GB News emphasises benefits of checking for typos.
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NewsCity law society chief rebuts allegations of 'reputation laundering'
CLLS chair Colin Passmore hits out at ‘injustice’ of academic’s claim that diversity initiatives in the City 'don’t work because they aren’t meant to work'.
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NewsReleased PI fraudster given limit on mobile phones he can own
First crime prevention order is made against serial fraudster who posed as a claims farmer.
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NewsSDT stays five-year-old case against solicitor too ill to take part
Proceedings were issued five years ago but have never reached a substantive hearing.
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NewsCity director put ice cube down junior colleague’s back, tribunal told
Alleged incident occurred during a night out following a firm event.
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NewsNews focus: Hillsborough families are unimpressed by public advocate plan
Critics of Dominic Raab’s proposed Independent Public Advocate say it will lack the power, authority and resources to hold the government and public bodies properly to account after a major disaster.
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NewsRaab keeps his own counsel as judges sweat
Dominic Raab doesn’t appear to like lawyers much, despite being one himself. But has this seemingly reflex hostility degenerated into outright provocation? Gazette columnist and legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg reported last month that more than 11,000 serving or former part-time judges in England and Wales stand to lose pension benefits ...
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NewsJudges' pension rights will be preserved, Raab confirms
Lord chancellor acknowledges uncertainty around legislative framework gave rise to concern from judicial office-holders.
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NewsSacked solicitor duped investors into thinking he was still working
Tribunal strikes off solicitor after finding he took advantage of potential funders.
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NewsBar tribunal chair 'completely misunderstood' his role, court told
Criminal barrister appealing 'unfairly excessive' sanctions over evidence disclosure failure.
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NewsLegal aid 'hurdle' removed for domestic abuse applicants
Doctors can now submit letters of evidence following a video or telephone consultation.
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NewsBuckland: 'Fast track' Law Commission bills for 'good law'
Former lord chancellor calls on government to ‘look again’ at how bills could go straight from second to third readings without need for full committee stage.
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NewsHogan Lovells and Shearman call off merger talks
Tieup would have created top five global firm.
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NewsNational firm gives staff free stake in the business
HF says employee share scheme is part of turning the traditional model ‘on its head’.
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NewsManchester firm unveils plans to recruit 150 new staff
Veritas Solicitors will open several new departments as part of expansion plans.