Last 3 months headlines – Page 785
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Greater public awareness drives rise in sexual offences prosecutions
Ministry of Justice says more people are being sentenced and for longer.
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Insurance fraudster who duped law firm facing £37,000 fine
Claims handler added friends and family members to genuine claims.
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Insurers to pocket £200m a year from PI reforms
Details of government’s impact assessment are released along with whiplash consultation.
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‘Substantial confusion’ over contingency fund – Law Society
Joint working group on contingency legal aid fund says initial findings show that funding low-value cases would be problematic.
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Bond Dickinson backtracks on Brexit pay freeze
Law firm says it will continue its pay reviews as normal.
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Personal injury proposals at a glance
Consultation asks for views on much wider transformation of the sector than first imagined.
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Top CMC: whiplash reforms give us chance to be ‘more proactive’
National Accident Helpline tells stock exchange it will change its business model.
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Fury over Gove’s call for practice curbs on ‘second-class’ solicitor-advocates
Solicitors have reacted angrily to an 'ill-judged, ill-informed and incorrect' attack on solicitor-advocates by Michael Gove. Speaking last night, the former lord chancellor called for restrictions on the rights of audience of solicitor-advocates in order to ‘restore the criminal bar to health’. Claiming barristers provide a ‘better service’, he suggested ...
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Court of Appeal grants leeway on fixed costs application
Claimants hail result in landmark Qader case which dropped out of RTA protocol.
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Campaigners warn PI reforms will cost 60,000 legal jobs
Reaction starts to come in to government’s announcement of a crackdown on claims.
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British Virgin Islands enters arbitration market
Islands hope to rival London as centre for worldwide business.
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MoJ set to impose £5k small claims limit
Law Society says the plans will 'completely undermine the right of ordinary people to receive full and proper compensation'.
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Solicitor faces jail after ‘burying head in sand’ over ombudsman
Rhiannon Cory could be jailed for two weeks if she fails to attend upcoming hearing.
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Government to propose £5k small claims limit – BBC
Report says the Ministry of Justice is also set to cap minor injuries compensation at 'just over £400'.
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LAA begins notifying law firms of crime tender outcome
More than 1,400 organisations have applied for new government contracts.
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Labour would oppose small claims limit rise
Shadow justice minister speaks out as lawyers prepare for imminent publication of consultation.
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Jackson promises ‘open mind’ on fixed recoverable costs
Lord Justice Jackson says panel of 13 assessors will inform his decision on fixed recoverable costs regime.
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Minority defendants more likely to plead ‘not guilty’
Labour MP David Lammy publishes interim findings from his government-sponsored review of racial bias and representation in the criminal justice system.
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Sex shop judgment bans excessive regulation costs
Ruling in the Simply Pleasure case, Court of Justice of the EU says licensing authorisation fees constitute a ‘charge’.