Last 3 months headlines – Page 801
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FTSE-100 sets aside billions more for legal bills
Banks and financial services firms hold the biggest share of legal liability provision.
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Jackson’s latest work is no labour of love
You do want Jackson’s new book in your Christmas stocking, don’t you?
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Regrets, I’ve had a few
I have often wondered just how many of my old cases resulted in miscarriages of justice.
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£400m government panel opens to bids
Crown Commercial Service has issued an invitation to tender for general legal services.
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IBA 2016: call for action over 'long arm' of US law
US's attitude to extra-territorial jurisdiction criticised in Washington.
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IBA 2016: Stock market listing comes at a price
Australian experience shows niche firms to have best record of share flotations.
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Co-op Legal’s recovery picks up
Standard-bearer for the ABS first wave posted a first-half profit, after making a loss last year.
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Firm defers pay review until Brexit picture is clearer
National firm Bond Dickinson today confirmed it had informed staff of the decision.
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Criminal bar chief targets ‘corruption’ of defence work
Francis FitzGibbon QC takes aim at 'incompetent' solicitor-advocates and says patience over planned reforms is wearing thin.
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IBA conference: as it happened
Read Michael Cross’s dispatches from the International Bar Association conference in Washington.
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LeO: Handbook overhaul will ‘confuse’ clients
Complaints-handler joins multiple critics of SRA proposals to reform practising rules.
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SRA will shut law firms over ‘dubious’ investment schemes
Firms warned over using banking services through client accounts.
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Lawyers can’t be compared to sewage workers, says Bar Council head
Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC critical of Legal Services Board proposals for single regulator of the legal sector.
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Judge suggests ex-client could claim against defunct Blavo
Blavo & Co should have properly advised client before closing, tribunal hears.
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Evidence mounts in the case for problem-solving courts
Five-year academic research shows significantly less family disruption for cases that go through pioneering London court.
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IBA 2016: legal independence in E&W under attack
Political attacks on lawyers and regulators answerable to government – two of the warning signs highlighted in major report.
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Use correct grammar, BSB tells newly qualified barristers
Recommendation comes in revised version of competences for practitioners.
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IBA 2016: TTIP ‘promotes rule of law’
US government in last-ditch efforts to save controversial free-trade treaties.