Last 3 months headlines – Page 293
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News focus: From insult to personal injury – a sector in flux
The demise of two big-hitting personal injury firms is a sign that the once buoyant claims sector is in a period of flux, with experts pointing to this year’s whiplash reforms as the catalyst for change.
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Return to face-to-face interviews raises police station Covid concerns
Solicitors report lack of social distancing in interview rooms.
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SQE: 'Reasonable adjustments' introduced as assessments get under way
SRA and exam provider Kaplan act to allay criticism that they risk 'wilfully excluding' disabled people in Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
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Opportunity knocks
Fleet-footed law firm marketing bods are required to be pretty thick-skinned about accusations of ambulance-chasing. This approach would appear to stand even if a new business opportunity is presented by the collapse of another firm. Less than a day after the Gazette revealed that Liverpool firm Hampson Hughes had gone ...
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Wellbeing is a two-way street, judge tells 'wildly optimistic' lawyers
Recorder Alexander Chandler says inadequate time estimates are often given for interim applications.
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Firm owner who used client account as a ‘piggy bank’ is struck off
Investigators found withdrawals coming to £22,782 from the client account over the course of 18 months.
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Experts too often ‘descend into the arena’, says master of the rolls
Sir Geoffrey Vos tells expert witness conference that proceedings 'have, in general terms, become too lengthy, too costly and too elaborate’.
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A sweet deal for coming back to the office
Shoosmiths’ new office in London is encouraging people to come into town.
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Supreme Court sending ‘mood music’ on social and economic rights JRs
Professor Conor Gearty says the two-child limit case marked 'quite a change' in approach.
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GLD wants to increase diversity target at senior levels
Deputy director says 26.8% of department have declared themselves to be from an ethnic minority background.
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Lawyers will be ‘more in demand than ever’ with online courts, says Vos
Master of the rolls insists the legal profession will not be made redundant by the digitisation of civil disputes.
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Ethnic minority barristers face ‘systemic obstacles’ to rewarding careers
Bar Council’s Race Working Group recommends chambers set targets for recruitment and retention.
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Charity’s private prosecution ‘perverting the course of public justice’
Judge rules case was pursued 'with no evidential basis' and 'for wholly improper reasons'.
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Firm announces it will pay NQs almost £150,000 a year
Continuing recruitment battle in the City takes salary levels to new highs.
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'Too little focus on the value [of] the rule of law' - lord chief justice
The justice system is 'not a service like any other' and future funding must 'take into account the vital part that the courts play'.
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Overseas use 'puts future of English law at risk'
Thinktank calls for 'internationally focused efforts' to protect and promote the English legal system.
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Defenders of judicial review plead their case to MPs
Law Society says reforms will remove basic requirement of an effective justice system.
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‘Overworked’ Slater and Gordon solicitor used client payout on other cases
Gareth Evans accepts he should be struck off after admitting he did not speak up about pressure of work.
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Sleaze row: Paterson vote ‘completely undermines trust’, says ex-government legal chief
Sir Jonathan Jones QC slams 'dysfunctional' system for regulating MPs, while ex-lord chancellor Lord Falconer berates law officer 'stooges'.