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Covid-affected law firm office reopens after deep clean
Bolton Council confirms thet PI firm has made required safety improvements.
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Problem-solving court to help families in the Midlands
Specialist problem-solving court will cover Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley.
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Homeworking putting billable hours under pressure, firms told
Distribution of work ‘very uneven’ in some firms as partners hang on to work normally given to juniors.
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Criminal barristers earning less than minimum wage, Bar Council claims
The justice sector in a ‘dire state’ and plagued by ‘outrageously long delays’, according to representative body.
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Date set for firm’s Supreme Court showdown with Ryanair
Bott & Co will appeal the decision to let the airline bypass solicitors in flight delay claims.
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Society alarmed by Covid-19 exemption for lawyers
Chancery Lane has raised its concerns about the latest regulations with the courts minister.
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Litigation funding giant's profits slip but ‘pipeline is rebuilding’
Burford says it has passed the test of lockdown despite profit and revenue figures heading downwards.
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DWF to replace training contracts with SQE apprenticeship scheme
Graduate entry-level apprenticeship programme will be introduced in January 2022.
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London’s new justice quarter unveiled
Nine-storey Fleet Street development will house Crown, civil and magistrates’ courts.
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Iranian human rights lawyer wins ‘alternative Nobel prize’ from cell
Nasrin Sotoudeh recognised for ‘unrelenting commitment to justice’.
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Transparency rules not bringing down prices, reports LSB
Super-regulator tells competition watchdog that more action is needed to help consumers.
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Covid-19 creates new difficulties accessing legal aid safety net scheme
New research highlights challenges that explain 23% drop in exceptional case funding applications.
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Midlands firms join forces and commit to expansion plans
Coventry firm dating back more than 200 years has brought another practice on board.
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FCA to return to court over business interruption insurance
Regulator and insurers have failed to reach agreement over business interruption insurance judgment.
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Online probate forms mandatory for solicitors from next month
Statutory instrument laid today will apply to majority of probate cases.
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Qualified solicitor, 41, loses battle for financial support from parents
Claimant had urged court not to abandon him to the ‘capricious’ decisions of his parents.
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Costs ruling opens way for uplift on CoP guideline hourly rates
Judgment hailed as providing reassurance for people worried about survival of practice.
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Lawyers can break new self-isolation rules to go to court
People participating in legal proceedings are exempt from new legal duty to self-isolate.
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Bar sets could move online post-coronavirus, says QC
Lockdown has ‘made people realise how little they in fact used or needed the traditional chambers model’.
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Court service tackles jump in probate applications
Around 2,000 more applications for grants of probate were received in August than pre-coronavirus.