Last 3 months headlines – Page 475
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News'Major flaws': parliamentary committee backs repeal of fixed-term act
Draft bill proposes an end to fixed-terms in parliament and removes overview powers from the courts.
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NewsCounsel not liable to solicitors for loss of fees, rules High Court
Birmingham firm claimed it lost around £150,000 as a result of an intellectual property barrister’s conduct.
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NewsShort films to support 'digitally disadvantaged' with virtual justice
Research team keen to hear from solicitors with experience of attending video hearings.
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NewsUK to fight ‘unnecessary barriers to data flows’
Minister outlines future priorities for independent data protection regime.
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NewsLegal Ombudsman gets its 13% budget increase - but told no more excuses
Oversight regulator ‘clear that it needs to see results this time’.
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NewsLabour calls for extra 33,000 court sitting days
Number of outstanding cases in the Crown court reached nearly 57,000 last month.
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NewsCompetition hots up between SQE course providers
Law Training Centre has developed a two-part online course for £6,280 ahead of the SQE's introduction in September.
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NewsCharity pledges to help solicitors bounce back from pandemic
Long established welfare body says it will widen access to support to help those whose income has been cut.
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NewsSociety chief joins taskforce to boost socio-economic diversity at the top
Government-backed group will challenge lack of career progression for those from non-professional backgrounds.
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News‘Moment of reckoning’: new president makes diversity pledge
I. Stephanie Boyce delivers her first speech as president of the Law Society of England and Wales.
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NewsMore courts to offer rapid Covid tests
Leeds Combined Court, Leicester Crown Court, Reading Crown Court and Winchester Combined Court will offer on-site testing from today.
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NewsJudge allows use of documents shared by mistake
High Court says that a reasonable solicitor would have assumed that disclosure was intentional.
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NewsA&O predicts ‘considerable’ reduction in office space
Magic circle firm expects that 40% of its work will be done from home once the pandemic has passed.
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NewsHappy Mundays: listed firm splashes £5.3m on yet another acquisition
Knights says it will recruit lawyers who no longer want to commute into London.
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NewsLawyers fact checking again on Line of Duty return
Solicitor was awake, alive and apparently not corrupt. Which is a start.
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NewsEx-Post Office workers reach Court of Appeal
Over 40 former sub postmasters will attempt to have their convictions quashed in the Royal Courts of Justice this week.
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NewsPink string and smokes: articling in the 80s
Readers’ memories of serving articles have now entered a fourth decade, with Melanie Benn’s recollections of joining ‘a very large South Yorkshire firm’ in 1989.
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NewsAnyone for post-pandemic rugger and netball?
More great news for athletic types: the Law Society RFC 7s & Netball Tournament is back and with a year’s worth of pent up demand, the organisers are looking forward to another record-breaking year.
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NewsNew breed of law firm consultancy transforming the market
As the pandemic has shown how remote working can provide major benefits for legal practices, clients and lawyers, the traditional law firm could be facing an existential threat.