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All News focus articles – Page 20
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NewsAfter Sir Cliff: Open justice is now under siege
Mr Justice Mann’s ruling against the BBC is the latest in a series of body blows to transparency and could place significant restrictions on the freedom of the media to report on criminal cases.
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NewsIn focus: Hong Kong sets out dispute resolution credentials
Justice secretary Teresa Cheng outlines intellectual property initiatives and move to allow third-party funding of arbitrations.
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NewsIn focus: Is IPO dam about to burst?
While the number of firms that have taken the IPO plunge is still in single figures, there is a sense the dam is about to burst.
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NewsIn focus: Common values key to transatlantic mergers
Transatlantic unions are all the rage, and not just weddings. Over the past year a spate of law firms have exchanged vows.
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NewsIn focus: Uncertainty remains after Dreamvar and P&P rulings
Landmark judgment leaves questions unanswered as solicitors voice renewed concerns over liability for property fraud.
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NewsIn focus: Cautionary notes on courts reform
A progress report on the courts modernisation programme suggests that not everything is going according to plan, but the government remains resolute in its commitment to the project.
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NewsNews focus: patent court's Brexit paradox
Simplifying Europe’s complex patent law landscape has taken many years of negotiation, but UK government rhetoric on sovereignty appears to contradict the final agreement.
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NewsNews focus: Siege mentality at APIL conference
APIL’s conference did little to dispel the perception of a personal injury sector perpetually in crisis, and the Civil Liability Bill will pile more pressure on beleaguered practitioners.
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NewsNews focus: Clicks and mortar
Everyone agrees that buying and selling a home ought not to be a labyrinthine process. But what will plans to fix the ‘broken housing market’ mean for conveyancers?
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NewsNews focus: gender pay expectations gap
Excluding equity partners effectively allows many firms to constrict their gender pay gap. But the tide has turned and more realistic figures have come in — what do they tell us?
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NewsNews focus: Coming clean on NDAs
With the Solicitors Regulation Authority taking a hard line on non-disclosure agreements, firms must assess whether they are covering up serious misconduct.
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NewsNews focus: local government lawyers battle dwindling budgets
Will the country’s first ‘social enterprise law firm’ reignite council interest in ABSs and inspire other lawyers in local government to follow in its footsteps?
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NewsNews focus: Bridging the diversity chasm
A Law Society survey on women in the law suggests that attitudes to gender equality are improving, but unconscious bias is still widely perceived to be a major problem.
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NewsNews focus: High priest of reform Jackson bows out
A decade on from accepting the ‘poisoned chalice’ of civil litigation costs, and with retirement looming, Lord Justice Jackson evaluates his successes and failures.
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NewsNews focus: Collision course over PI discount rate
Insurers and claimant personal injury lawyers crave clarity on the discount rate amid a blizzard of accusation and counteraccusation. But they may have to wait a while yet.
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NewsNews focus: legal advice gateway to nowhere
The cancellation of a procurement offers an ideal opportunity to overhaul the way publicly funded advice on debt, discrimination and education is provided.
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NewsNews focus: Breaking protocol on client capture
Edmondson v Haven has shaken to the core a tripartite arrangement between client, solicitor and insurer. Practitioners anxiously await a Supreme Court decision.
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NewsNews focus: In the spirit of full disclosure
Police forces and the CPS are attempting to tackle failures in criminal evidence disclosure, but how solicitors are paid for Crown court work must surely be part of the conversation.
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NewsNews focus: Judicial power and the left
An acclaimed new film depicts the US Supreme Court reining in Richard Nixon. Here, the time may be right for a left-right consensus over whether judicial power has gone too far
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NewsNews focus: new bar chair defends venerable business model
New bar chair Andrew Walker QC fiercely defends an old business model - if it ain’t broke, why fix it?