Last 3 months headlines – Page 757
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NewsCalls grow to restore immigration legal aid
Calls for immigration legal aid to be restored are growing, amid concerns about the quality of privately funded advice.
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NewsIn-house braced for cybersecurity surge
In-house lawyers expect to play a greater role in cybersecurity as GDPR comes into play.
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NewsRight to choose
Rival protests took place outside the Royal Courts of Justice last week before a legal challenge over the law on assisted dying. Retired lecturer Noel Conway, 68, who has motor neurone disease, is seeking the right to choose when his life should end with medical help. Conway’s campaign was supported ...
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NewsWarby’s novel solution
Justice Warby’s judgment in the landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ case against Google.
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NewsMeaning of the Worboys affair
The John Worboys affair throws up more questions than it answers. Is the case being hijacked by moral entrepreneurs and used to have sentences for rape increased? And will it open the floodgates for what amount to appeals by victims against Parole Board decisions? How will these be funded? Legal ...
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NewsPublic given full access to make online divorce applications
Justice minister Lucy Frazer says the online system will cut waste and speed up services.
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NewsCommission begins work on 'not fit for purpose' surrogacy laws
Law commissions for England and Wales, and Scotland, secure £150,000 government funding.
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NewsParole Board must become a fully fledged court, ex-chief declares
Professor Nick Hardwick says the public body must be separated from the Ministry of Justice.
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NewsMoJ backtracks on tribunal fee refund alerts
Government has begun writing to people affected after previously dismissing the idea following last year's landmark Supreme Court defeat.
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NewsLeeds legal stalwart expands down south
Bristol office will be Emsleys’ first outside West Yorkshire.
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NewsSolicitor tells court: This place is too busy to shut
Cambridge lawyer makes impassioned speech after client told to wait another six months for trial. ‘Powers that be are nowhere to be seen,’ she says.
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NewsSimmons hires from top Dublin firms for Ireland move
Post-Brexit, Ireland will be ‘strategic domicile’, says leading firm.
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NewsCity law firm hopes to raise £43m from record IPO
Rosenblatt aims to surpass Gateley in largest IPO ever made by a UK law firm.
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NewsLeigh Day prepares Windrush group action
Human rights firm it is waiting to hear more about the government's compensation scheme.
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News'Nothing to lose': Bar ponders no returns policy to escalate protest
About 100 chambers are already refusing new work and the bar’s mood is hardening as the Ministry of Justice stands firm.
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NewsSolicitor campaigns to make mental health 'first-aiders' compulsory
Jodie Hill has launched a petition pointing to the anomaly that staff are trained in physical first aid only.
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NewsSenior presiding judge issues guidance on bar boycott
Lady Justice Macur says there should be no suggestion the judiciary are 'anything other than neutral' in the dispute between the profession and the government.
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NewsUnion hits out as courts shakeup threatens 6,500 jobs
Documents issued by the judiciary also shed further light on the future of the government's flexible courts hours plans.