Last 3 months headlines – Page 309
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Mishcon gave ‘element of trust’ to murky football transfers, tribunal hears
Firm alleged to have used client account as banking facility for transfers involving football club.
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Raab replaces Buckland as lord chancellor
Demoted foreign secretary will be the eighth lord chancellor since the Conservatives came in to government in 2010.
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'Thank you HMCTS': positive feedback over financial remedies
HM Courts & Tribunals Service highlights progress on work to digitise divorce process.
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Solicitor-judge's disability struggles 'prevented career development'
Zorina Nadine Clarkson Palomares tells tribunal she wanted to sit in other jurisdictions but felt demoralised.
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Half-year profits soar 279% at RBG
Company behind Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal firms reports 'high volume of new instructions'.
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SRA under pressure to demand more price transparency
Legal Services Board says frontline regulators must ‘tighten up’ compliance.
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Chambers mourns death of 'trailblazer' barrister
Georgia Lassoff described as a fierce anti-racist ally and committed to LGBT+ equality.
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Mishcon de Reya's last-minute admission to SDT ruled to be unfair
Former Mishcon partner was 'effectively ambushed' by admissions at such a late stage.
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Firm remains instructed to challenge 'temporary operating arrangements'
Criminal Bar Association says controversial model has not been implemented at any court yet.
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Campaign aims to outlaw ‘toxic’ NDAs hiding misconduct
Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein takes leading role in new initiative.
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Braverman reappointed attorney general following maternity leave
Legislation rushed through parliament to ensure government's chief law officer did not have to resign.
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QC report accuses City firm of acting with conflict of interest
Fieldfisher subject to criticisms in hard-hitting report into surveyors’ professional body.
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Solicitor-judge in disability challenge received complaints over delays
Zorina Nadine Clarkson Palomares says dissatisfaction was a result of alleged government failures to provide reasonable adaptions.
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High-flying lawyer jailed for £600,000 frauds
Former Commonwealth Secretariat employee siphoned off funds into personal bank account.
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News focus: Plans to extend fixed costs are 'fraught with danger'
Fixed recoverable costs are being expanded – and despite opposition from lawyers who accuse the government of ‘shoe-horning’ cases into a simpler system, the government appears unlikely to budge.
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Firms roll out flexible office return
City firms are taking a different approach to homeworking and office attendance.
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'Scandalous' SRA delays in investigation of disciplinary cases
Greg Treverton-Jones QC says solicitors can wait years for their cases to conclude.
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Major rebrand for councils' pioneering ABS
Pathfinder Legal Services is the new name for LGSS Law Ltd, set up by Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire county councils.