Last 3 months headlines – Page 917
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Gateley float raises £30m
Share price surges in early trading as national commercial firm makes history by listing on Alternative Investment Market.
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Gateley stock exchange float makes history
Sector analysts expect competitors to follow firm’s fortunes closely as they review growth strategies and consider whether to follow suit.
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Rolls Building considers specialist financial list
The ‘financial list’ would provide a specialist dispute resolution forum in competition with centres such as Dubai and Singapore.
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Firms alarmed by visa levy
Immigration measures announced in the Queen’s speech have alarmed the City amid fears that increasing regulatory burdens could make it harder to hire overseas talent.
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Nottingham firm signs up with bar regulator
Husband and wife ran Invictus Legal as a solicitors’ firm for five years, before opting to set up a new company as a Bar Standards Board-regulated entity.
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Grieve to chair rule of law group
Former attorney general also emerges as a possible candidate to chair the House of Commons Justice Select Committee.
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Singing solicitors show dogged determination
Father-and-sons group beaten by dogs on BGT – but they won’t go quietly.
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Rearranging the flowers
Recently there was a reminder of when two women were wrongly convicted of stealing teddy bears from Princess Diana tributes.
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Dyson: costs budgeting training needed for legal profession
Master of the rolls suggests lawyers need educating in case management, as has happened for judges.
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Tory MPs jostle for justice committee chair post
A Conservative will chair the committee in the new parliament and scrutinise human rights reform.
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Libor claim added to Barclays swaps case
Bank is defending a £50m claim for losses linked to manipulation of the London interbank offered rate.
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Top-100 firms enjoy 6.3% rise in fee income
Law firms expect growth to continue next year – but worries persist over profitability.
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No flood of CMC complaints so far, reports ombudsman
Claims management companies attracting fewer complaints than expected, according to initial figures.
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Solicitors hit glass ceiling in judicial appointments
Proportion of women and BAME candidates making the bench remains steady.
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A&O brings in bonus pot to take on US rivals
The magic circle firm made the change to lockstep as top UK firms seek to compete with their US counterparts.
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MoJ hit with further £249m of cuts
Ministry of Justice among the departments facing the deepest cuts after the chancellor pledged to find £3bn in savings this year.
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More top-100 firms post profit hikes
Taylor Wessing, Fieldfisher and Bristows all enjoyed a bumper 2014/15.
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Lawyers urged to treat litigants in person ‘with courtesy’
Guidance issued by representative bodies also includes advice on dealing with McKenzie friends.