News – Page 94
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NewsCPS to treat online hate crime as seriously as face-to-face offences
Alison Saunders says hate crime is a priority area for the Crown Prosecution Service.
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NewsPolice tighten procedures after sending woman's phone data to alleged abuser's solicitor
Woman who accused her partner of domestic abuse had volunteered her phone as evidence.
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Anti-money laundering quango 'adds no value' - Law Society
Chancery Lane says costs to profession are likely to be ‘substantial’.
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NewsLinklaters adds to healthy magic circle retention rates
Firm keeps on 84% of its autumn cohort.
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NewsFlexible courts could bankrupt solicitor firms - Law Society
Compensating solicitors for working overtime could doom firms operating on ‘zero profit margins’, Chancery Lane warns.
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Solicitors spared after filing costs budget late
Judge decides delay did not affect progress of litigation.
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NewsTop litigation firm takes on just one of four trainees
Stewarts Law recently posted bumper profits but trainee retention has dipped to a record low.
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NewsWoodsford funds litigation boutique
Litigation funder teams up with US firm Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss.
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NewsBan for legal assistant who stole from vulnerable clients
Dianne Spragg was sentenced to 30 months in January last year.
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: terms of reference 'won't satisfy government's legal obligations'
London firm representing some of the victims says broader social questions such as the availability of legal aid should also be considered.
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NewsI would never sign a power of attorney - retired judge
Denzil Lush, former Court of Protection judge, has accused the MoJ of a misguided ‘crusade’.
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NewsPioneering price comparison site Law Superstore taken over
Property website reallymoving has acquired the law’s ’equivalent to Compare The Market’ - amid revelations of difficulties in getting solicitors to sign up.
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NewsAppeal to proceed in £14bn landmark Mastercard action
Quinn Emanuel says it has identified 'manifest errors' in Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling.
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NewsDPP raps 'inaccurate' press reports of rape prosecutions
Alison Saunders says media coverage should not hinder sensible public debate.
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NewsBlame game begins as Google Translate stands in for court interpreter
Barrister on hand to download translate app after defendant unable to communicate with court.
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NewsTrainee retention roundup: Freshfields drops one in three amid generally high rates
Firms post generally positive retention scores, though US firm lags behind.
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NewsFamily ties key to offender rehabilitation, government report finds
Lord Farmer’s review claims family relationships are ‘fundamentally important’.
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NewsUnreported courts: Westminster magistrates shuts press room
Room was ‘little used’ despite being among country’s most high-profile courts.
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NewsMust do better: Taylor Wessing overhauls gender programme after missing targets
City firm introduces new measures after failing in aim to have 25% female partnership.