Last 3 months headlines – Page 888
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Conservatives: court fees? Let’s talk about solicitors’ costs – Faulks
Conference fringe event also addresses how best to promote ADR to stop disputes coming to court.
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Ratings website receives £3.6m cash injection
VouchedFor, which allows clients to rate their solicitors, will invest in technology and marketing.
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IBA 2015: migration needs international rule – former Commission chief
Jose Manuel Barroso tells bar conference ‘common principles’ needed to tackle crisis.
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Conservatives: Grieve warning on ‘ripping up’ Human Rights Act
Justice secretary Michael Gove expected to give more details about plans for human rights legislation.
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Lender panel restrictions hit smaller law firms
Metro Bank and Newcastle Building Society among those to introduce new restrictions, excluding smaller firms from conveyancing panels.
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Negligence costs cap would hurt most vulnerable, say solicitors
Claims of up to £250,000 could be subject to a fee cap under plans being considered by the Department of Heath.
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Top GC makes plea for gender quotas
‘If you really want to make change, you need a law,’ said Vodafone group general counsel.
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Insurer warns on phone fraud against firms
So-called ‘vishing’ frauds typically involve an individual phoning a firm’s cashier ‘to confirm recent transactions’.
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‘Reserved powers’ model of Welsh devolution unworkable – report
Review commissioned by the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University and the Constitution Unit at University College London.
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Seeing in the new legal year
A series of events took place last week to mark the Opening of the Legal Year, one of the most celebrated days in the legal calendar.
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Falconer gloss woos Corbynites
New shadow lord chancellor and his boss disagree on a ‘few matters’.
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Memory lane
Two or three inmates said they had never known such calm and peace as they experienced in Brixton Prison.
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Fasken Martineau seeking to reduce London headcount
International firm says up to 70 jobs could be affected by the restructure.
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Immigration judge warns of dangers of ‘insensitive’ language
Appeal dismissed but tribunal stresses that judges should check the comments they make to litigants.
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Legal Aid Agency refers Blavo & Co concerns to the police
National firm had blamed legal aid cuts for potential redundancies.
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Bar pushes for revamped advocacy fees
New graduated fee scheme aims to increase payments for complex and serious cases to redress 'imbalance'.
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Legal aid contract announcement held to 15 October
Two-week delay to ‘finalise quality assurance’, Ministry of Justice says.
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Litigation funder backs VW shareholder action
Bentham Europe says shareholders ‘deserve more than an apology’.