Last 3 months headlines – Page 766
-
News
Munby: court did not ‘cave in’ over release of jailed 71-year-old
Court of Appeal approves consent order in relation to elderly man who lacks capacity.
-
News
Judge lambasts witness for ‘throwing allegations around like confetti’
Solicitor engaged with property developer and former close friend in renovation costs dispute.
-
News
Lord Woolf joins hundreds of barristers in condemning bar training shakeup
Former master of rolls and LCJ among signatories of letter saying proposals are ‘radical and unappealing’.
-
News
Government snubs calls for hefty cut in tribunal fees
Ministry of Justice says employment tribunal fees ‘generally successful’ in pushing claimants into arbitration – but it will raise threshold for exemptions.
-
News
Bank fined £163m for money laundering failings
Deutsche Bank ’failed to control’ AML framework, says regulator imposing record penalty.
-
News
Bar Council ‘deeply concerned’ over fixed recoverable costs proposals
Barristers’ body says Jackson proposals will harm both solicitors and barristers.
-
News
Blacker files to Court of Appeal
Former solicitor advocate argues High Court was wrong to say his tribunal listing was a judicial function.
-
News
Barrister's website boasted he could get ‘Stevie Wonder a driving licence’
Michael Wolkind QC denies professional misconduct.
-
News
Supreme Court hears council’s challenge to school absence case
Department for Education meeting Isle of Wight Council’s costs in challenge over breach of Education Act 1996.
-
News
Transparency proposals 'could mislead clients' - Society
Law Society condemns SRA proposals to create a digital register of raw regulatory data.
-
News
Simpson Millar owner reviews business amid job loss speculation
Fairpoint Group consulting with staff on 'certain structural changes'.
-
News
Shiner tribunal hears of ‘deliberate and calculating lies’
Former head of Public Interest Lawyers thought the ends of his actions in Iraqi claims against British military ‘justified the means’.
-
News
Solicitor’s anti-Trump petition goes global
Leeds solicitor at heart of campaign to ban US president from making state visit.
-
News
Lawyer groups urge Jackson to rethink fixed costs plans
Proposals dismissed as unjustified and likely to leave successful claimants paying more.
-
News
Doctor jailed after submitting false medical claims
City of London Police says solicitors trusted Benjamin Chang, 57, of London, to provide a service to claimants.
-
News
Boost for sole practitioners as HSBC raises conveyancing threshold
Mortgage threshold for solicitors with Law Society kitemark more than doubles to £350,000.
-
News
Fixed costs for clinical negligence: the figures
Full rundown of the proposed options for claimant lawyers under the new scheme.
-
News
Phil Shiner tribunal rejects ‘manoeuvre’ to delay case
Three-week hearing opens into allegations of misconduct over Iraq war claims.
-
News
Tribunal refuses SRA’s ‘unnecessary’ hotel bill
SDT says the SRA’s schedule of costs, at £16,273.50, was too high.
-
News
CMC complaints increase 39% in the space of a year
Delays and failure to refund upfront fees account for half of all complaints about claims management companies.