Last 3 months headlines – Page 507
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NewsKeep Welsh JRs in Wales, Faulks review told
Challenges to the decisions of public bodies in Wales should be held in Wales, counsel general says.
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NewsFirm fined £14,000 after missing ‘red flags’ on property work
SRA announces sanction in the same week as renewing calls for extra due diligence on clients.
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NewsBar Council demands regional court investment ahead of spending review
Law and order in the Midlands and the North is ‘particularly weak’, says representative body.
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NewsTwo owners to share £2.1m as south west firm is bought
Knights says employees are now back on full pay as trading edges back to pre-Covid levels.
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NewsGlobal bar body condemns ‘lefty lawyers’ comments
International Bar Association accuses UK government of attempting to ostracise legal professionals.
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NewsCyber criminals make £2.5m raid on law firms in lockdown
Staff working from home thought to be easier target for fraudsters online.
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NewsSRA tells firms: Check exactly where your client’s money came from
Regulator suggests current checks being made by some firms are not enough.
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NewsBritish Red Cross reveals ‘human cost’ of LASPO on refugee family reunions
Report calls for legal aid to be reinstated to acknowledge complexity of applications and value of early legal advice.
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NewsLegal Choices website records 3m visits in three years
Regulators running site say consumers are increasingly engaging with it.
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NewsPre-recorded evidence now an option across England and Wales
More than 350 victims and witnesses have used the technology since regional rollouts began this year.
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NewsLammy demands answers over judicial race ‘anomalies’
Shadow justice secretary refuses to rule out judicial diversity quotas in speech to bar conference.
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NewsNews focus: Bankers leap to defence of JR
The Faulks review has prompted hundreds of responses, amid anger that not all will be published. Councils and bankers are among advocates of a mechanism that will not be surrendered lightly
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NewsMishcon aims for cutting-edge data science service
Top-30 firm's chief strategy officer says ‘this is what any business, never mind a law firm, should be doing’.
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NewsStudents raise stakes after law school refuses lockdown refunds
Legal educator BPP threatened with being reported to Competition and Markets Authority.
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NewsBAILII gets MoJ lifeline
Most widely used free public online database of court judgments has five-year contract renewed for one year.
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NewsSecond part of legal aid review will begin this year, Buckland pledges
Lord chancellor says he wants to get chair of the criminal legal aid review ‘absolutely right’.
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NewsPresident's guidance for immigration appeals during Covid-19 'unlawful'
Note issued on 23 March stated that appeals should normally be decided on the papers.
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NewsJR has improved consumer rights, Which? tells Faulks review
Any changes to judicial review should relate to extending the window to issue proceedings.