Last 3 months headlines – Page 874
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Spending review: MoJ’s admin budget to halve by 2019/2020
Michael Gove’s department is among the biggest losers in Whitehall.
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Spending review: second try at Land Registry privatisation
The government will look at options for privatising the organisation from 2017.
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Spending review: Osborne raises PI small claims limit to £5k
Chancellor says savings will be passed on to motorists in lower insurance premiums.
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Spending review: green light for £700m courts upgrade
Chancellor reveals funding will be found from the programme to close 91 courts across England and Wales.
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Private equity backs £2m acquisition of Parabis business
Parabis Group - itself owned by a private equity investor - has been carved up and sold this week.
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Labour to set up human rights taskforce
Opposition leader calls for policies that will be ‘ready to go’ for 2020.
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City firm silent on Maclays merger talk
Addleshaw Goddard linked to biggest remaining Scottish independent as senior partner prepares to step down.
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‘Sloppy’ solicitor admits mistake over £9.5m loan guarantee
Judge suspects property partner ‘regarded himself as a man of commerce rather than a typical solicitor’.
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DWF profits fall as firm reveals ‘modest restructuring’ of staff
Managing partner Andrew Leaitherland said the firm is ‘ahead of the game’ despite profits dropping.
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Claims firm sacrifices 2015 profit for top-100 ambitions
Fletchers says this year’s £12m turnover - up from £11m in 2014 - is expected to rise to £20m by 2018.
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Treasury defends £500k magic circle bill for Eurostar transfer
MP says government was paying for ‘Rolls-Royce service’ and questions tender process.
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Family ADR boosted by new guidance
Practice note from head of Family Division could encourage more lawyers to view arbitration as a viable option.
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Short-notice listing will harm diversity – criminal practitioners
Crown court cases can start on any day within a defined time frame.
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Law centres 'bouncing back' from funding cuts
Law Centres Network hails ingenuity, resilience and determination of members in annual review.
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Social mobility little improved at top of profession
Partners at magic circle firms as well as senior judiciary and top QCs are more likely to be privately educated than the general public.
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Administrators confirm complex Parabis fire sale
Sale of ABS pioneer as a whole 'not a viable option', administrator announces.
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Knights acquisition to create £40m firm
Commercial firm in 'advanced talks' to acquire Darbys Solicitors.
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Gentlemen of the press
The lord chief justice’s annual press conference is one of the most dignified events in the media calendar.
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Colonel ‘broke the law of man’
The recent ‘fake man’ case reminds me that history is littered with men posing as women and vice-versa.
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‘Criminal’ flares are Exhibit A
Perhaps with an eye to the Contempt of Court Act, Gazette readers avoided the temptation to suggest the paraphernalia of male impersonation as an exhibit they would like to see in the ‘black museum’ of crime.