Last 3 months headlines – Page 471
-
News
Delay the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, law lecturers demand
Academics from across the UK claim future law students are making ‘life changing decisions’ on ‘fragmentary information’.
-
News
Land Registry suffers digital setback over local land charge data
Searches for Peterborough City Council disabled days after it moved to a national register.
-
News
Sexual harassment training goes on City lawyers' curriculum
An interactive course, due to go live this month, will ask solicitors to reflect on their own behaviour in the workplace.
-
News
Driverless cars must work for wheelchair users, says Bar Council
Bar Council also suggests a crackdown on price discrimination in relation to accessible and non-accessible taxis.
-
News
Solicitors spared costs penalty despite filing budget 13 days late
Relief for defaulting solicitors - and reassurance for profession fearful of causing delays.
-
News
Manchester crime firm announces closure as administrators move in
Court judgment on appointment of administrators confirms firm’s ceased operations.
-
News
'No quick fixes': Home Office begins pre-charge bail review
Home secretary Priti Patel says concerns over 2017 reforms due to several complex factors.
-
News
New model firms join forces
Nexa acquires share capital of London corporate firm Peregrine Law.
-
News
Back in business: Chancery Lane reopens after fire
Law Society announces that Reading Room, Library and 113 Restaurant are open to members.
-
News
Legal aid giant absorbs another firm after partner quits to join judiciary
National firm Tuckers announces second merger this year and says it is talking to other firms.
-
News
'Antiquated' fraud laws thwarting justice, says SFO director
Lisa Osofsky claims the high evidence threshold in fraud cases is ‘not reflective of today’s world’.
-
News
Crown court sitting days increase 'nowhere near enough' - criminal bar
Government says minimum of 87,000 will ensure justice is served in a timely fashion.
-
News
CPS knew rape ‘ambition’ could have perverse consequences
Admission follows Gazette revelations that 'levels of ambition' for rape, domestic violence and hate crime convictions were in operation between 2016 and 2018.
-
News
Rogue surgeon report demands action to ensure compensation
Inquiry finds that only by taking cases to 'sympathetic lawyers' did some patients have their grievances heard.
-
News
Four months on, SDT publishes Beckwith judgment
Solicitors Regulation Authority claimed £343,957 in costs, which tribunal reduced to £200,000.
-
News
Don’t look at grades and universities, social mobility tsar tells firms
Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Foundation, says legal sector focuses too heavily on 'a small number of selective universities'.
-
News
Falconer: politicians in charge 'hate the lawyers'
Former lord chancellor says politicians and legal aid practitioners must make common cause with Robert Buckland.
-
News
Lawyers could pay to fund MedCo’s £2m black hole
Medical report commissioning system says income has been in freefall as the number of users reduces.
-
News
Chancery Lane fire: Law Society building closed today
Road closures lifted after weekend fire which devastated some Society offices.
-
News
Manchester owners set for £2.8m windfall after selling firm to Knights
Fast-expanding listed firm announces acquisition of housing specialist Croftons.