Last 3 months headlines – Page 769
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Truss seeks to head off attacks on judiciary after Brexit ruling
Supreme Court justices 'people of integrity and impartiality', lord chancellor says.
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Competition for housing legal aid 'could result in race to the bottom'
Government outlines price competition approach for civil legal aid contract work from April 2018.
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Weightmans and Ward Hadaway in merger talks
Top 100 firms in ‘early stage talks’ about tieup that would create £130m firm.
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Firms unite to meet demand from international insurance clients
DAC Beachcroft in alliance with German, US and Australian counterparts.
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Lib Dem lawyers to fight Brexit ‘coup d’etat’
In run-up to Supreme Court verdict ‘Justice, Democracy and Europe’ group questions legitimacy of June referendum.
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Reed Smith takes team of 50 from collapsed KWM
International firm hires team of partners associates and trainees.
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Economists say PI reforms will put 35,000 jobs at risk
Research commissioned by claimant campaign group says lawyers, insurers and medical companies will all be under threat.
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Munby: video-links in family courts ‘a disgrace’
Family division president says reforms will not work without better court equipment.
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Brexit prompts corporate merger first
Commercial Court clears the way for UK companies to be absorbed by European subsidiaries as they restructure in response to referendum – reverse merger 'the first of many'.
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LASPO review welcomed – but Society repeats advice ‘deserts’ concerns
MoJ plans to submit a post-legislative memorandum on legal aid reforms to the justice select committee.
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'Don’t put consumers at risk', Society tells CMA
President Robert Bourns spoke at the London School of Economics.
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Justice by the shedload
Suggestions for alternative court venues remind Obiter of Monty Python.
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City group calls for ‘bespoke’ UK-EU deal
Report into proposed Brexit deal released by International Regulatory Strategy Group and Hogan Lovells.
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Breaking the cycle of unhealthy workplaces
Olympic gold medal cyclist teams up with a Hampshire firm to promote the benefits of healthy workplaces.
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Left alone with ‘mad’ Frankie
The warders at the prison were always keen to tell me how dangerous he was.
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‘Para-law’ firm boasts of bypassing solicitors
Legal Case Management says it can hive off the bulk of case work to ‘skilled, unregulated paralegals’.
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Insurers lose High Court discount rate challenge
ABI accuses the government of ‘caving in’ to the demands of personal injury lawyers.
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Judge and ex-lover guilty of law firm fraud
Simon Kenny and Emma Coates used client money at CK Solicitors to fund luxurious lifestyle.
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Appeals campaign calls for open justice
UK lags behind US in making court transcripts available, says Centre for Criminal Appeals.