Last 3 months headlines – Page 475
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News‘Informed consent’ fees dispute set for Court of Appeal showdown
Personal injury firm appealed after High Court ruled that fees should not have been deducted from damages.
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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.