Last 3 months headlines – Page 943
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Sussex authorities merge legal teams
Legal team at Eastbourne Borough Council will transfer to the employment of Lewes District Council on 1 April.
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LPC graduates toil to find training contracts
Junior Lawyers Division calls difference in numbers of registered trainees and LPC course finishers ‘very discouraging’.
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Views wanted on legal innovation
Law firms asked to participate in the next phase of a study by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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‘Mr Loophole’ rails against driverless cars
‘If you don’t want to drive, get a driver or get on a train.’
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Landmark bookshop eaten up by takeaway
Hammicks legal bookshop at the corner of Chancery Lane and Fleet Street is no more.
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Memory lane
The choice of a middle-aged mum to lead the party of tradition makes some of us pause for thought.
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Argentina’s silent march for Alberto Nisman
State prosecutor had accused the country’s president and foreign minister of covering up Iran’s role in a 1994 terrorist bombing.
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Legal aid challenge for inquests succeeds
High Court says current government guidance provides ‘materially misleading impression’ of the law.
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Revise domestic abuse legal aid rules, MoJ urged
Citizens Advice says restrictions leading victims to ‘give up on their rights to justice’.
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BSB wants to surrender powers on pupillages
Chambers and employers best placed to design the pupillage experience, says Bar Standards Board.
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Government ‘admits lawyer snooping unlawful’
Legal representative bodies say breach of professional privilege fundamentally unacceptable.
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Trowers applies for Malaysia licence
Firm hopes to become first qualified foreign law firm following market liberalisation.
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Report: look after ‘Generation Y’, or they’ll move on
New research by the Law Society highlights talent-retention headache caused by ‘millennial mobility’.
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PI giant moves in to conveyancing
National Accident Helpline operator buys online lead generator.
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Blow to legal aid as High Court dismisses judicial review
Law Society and practitioner groups brought challenges over crime duty tender process.
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Pioneering family court to go national
Department for Education providing £2.5m to extend drug and alcohol court across England.
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SRA apologises for trainee ‘confusion’
Regulator had released figures suggesting a sharp increase in the number of trainee solicitors.
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Anonymity breakthrough in personal injury claims
Court of Appeal rules claimants in PI and medical injury approval hearings should be anonymous unless there is good reason for identifying them.
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Challenge to domestic violence legal aid ruling
Rights of Women charity appealing High Court decision on Law Society-backed challenge.