Last 3 months headlines – Page 45
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NewsIn depth: Landmark ECtHR climate claims fail but activists hail 'fundamental change'
But have they changed the climate change justice discourse?
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NewsSentencing adjourned for ex-solicitor convicted of fraud following listings mistake
‘Even in the best run organisations occasionally mistakes are made and that, unfortunately, seems to have happened here,’ Old Bailey judge says.
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NewsSRA to be probed over SSB collapse
Legal Services Board broadens scope of inquiry into failure of Axiom Ince.
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News‘I didn’t realise we prosecuted sub-postmasters,’ former Post Office MD admits
Alan Cook tells inquiry he had not realised Post Office had the power to handle theft and false accounting cases.
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NewsExclusive: UK Lawyers for Israel issues fresh riposte over call for sanctions
Six former Supreme Court justices have weighed into the legal argument, three on each side.
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News356 lawtech companies blaze a trail in booming sector
Number of companies soars from 37 in 2002 and sector is on track to attract £2.2bn in annual investment by 2026.
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NewsSRA in hunt for new chair
Recruitment begins for outgoing chair Anna Bradley's replacement at the regulator.
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NewsDivorce order stands after solicitors applied for wrong client
Court rules that couple are no longer married despite firm’s efforts to set aside order.
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NewsFamily specialist Sarah Bentley dies at 62
Practitioner established her own practice, Sarah Bentley Solicitors, in 2017.
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NewsSLAPP campaigners call for ‘objective’ test in new law
Current definition involves a 'notoriously difficult, time-intensive, expensive and uncertain process', lawyers and journalists state.
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NewsLying claimant loses out on £600,000
Social media posts by woman who fell from Welsh pier showed a busy social life and little evidence of ongoing disability.
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NewsFirst transgender judge Master McCloud signs off
Emotional valedictory ceremony is held at Royal Courts of Justice after judge decided to step down from role.
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NewsMind your social media manners, dissenting CILEX members warned
Chief executive tells members code of conduct applies to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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NewsLondon firm fined £15k for failing to train staff in AML
SRA concedes no harm was caused but says firm breached regulations for too long.
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NewsMemory lane
Courts fees increase, the race to the bar and illegitimate persons: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsSolicitor advising Post Office warned about leaving 'paper trail'
Womble Bond Dickinson partner also said Alan Bates, who led the campaign to expose the Horizon scandal, had a ‘loose relationship’ with the truth.
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NewsBar Council opposes proposed reforms of entry requirements
Chair Sam Townend KC says degree requirement should be maintained as ‘lowering standards is not the answer to improving access and diversity’.
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NewsDawn of ‘deathtech’
MyGoodbyes is an app to lead us through a conversation many of us never get around to having.
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NewsApprentice-solicitor showed ‘complete and utter disregard’ for employment tribunal
Employment judge described aspiring lawyer’s conduct in bringing her claim against London firm Mishcon de Reya as ‘bordering on contempt’.
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NewsSRA hikes super-exam fees
Inflation and cost of providing assessment in Welsh behind increase in SQE prices, regulator says.