Last 3 months headlines – Page 974
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Hughes promises action on litigants in person
Justice minister assures party conference of announcements 'in the very near future'.
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Lawyers urged to respond to aid consultation
Consultation called Transforming Legal Aid: Crime Duty Contracts closes on 15 October.
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Slew of mergers before end of PII renewal period
Practices across England and Wales announced mergers in advance of the 1 October renewal deadline.
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KPMG ‘will not compete with big law practices’
The firm has outlined plans to triple its current number of lawyers to 150 within three years.
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Jourova’s pledge on human rights
Vera Jourova, the European Commissioner-designate for justice, consumers and gender equality, passed a confirmation hearing at the European Parliament last week.
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Islamic finance boost for City lawyers
UK first country outside the Islamic world to issue sovereign sukuk, the Islamic equivalent of a bond.
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How Nuremberg wasn’t lost in translation
Siegfried Ramler, an interpreter from the Nuremberg trials, is cross-examined by Philippe Sands QC.
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Memory Lane
The Law Society Gazette, 7 October 2004 Tories issue warning over criminal contract tendering Competitive tendering of criminal legal aid contracts is likely to lead to allegations of corner-cutting and incompetence against solicitors, shadow attorney-general Dominic Grieve MP told a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth this ...
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Lib Dem Autumn Conference: as it happened
[View the story “All the justice updates from the Lib Dem Autumn conference” on Storify]
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Have you ever been Nigel-ed?
Joan Collins at charity launch of new book by one of the principal founders of DLA Piper.
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Denton backlash begins as judge overturns relief refusal
Original judge had ‘expressed’ qualms about following directions of Mitchell judgment.
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Partners fined for tax avoidance advice
Stamp duty land tax avoidance scheme operated through Seychelles-based business, disciplinary tribunal hears.
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Scotland's anger over UK abandoning Human Rights Act
Secretary of state Carmichael and Holyrood justice secretary MacAskill condemn 'ugly' proposals.
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Legal Ombudsman to open online complaints portal
Watchdog says new system and office move will save £2m a year.
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Draft 'British rights' bill before Christmas
Conservatives set out plan for repeal of 1998 Human Rights Act.
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High Court deals LASPO blow to Grayling
Court rules that Ministry of Justice did not carry out adequate review of potential impact of reforms.
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Costs budgeting ‘completely alien’ to some judges
Senior costs judge says more training needed to help with post-Jackson regime.