News archive
2024
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– April
(81)
- Online employment law specialist targets divorce and conveyancing
- Judge strikes out £68m negligence claim against law firm
- LSB tells regulators they need to promote tech and innovation
- Senior judiciary “inadequately resourced to deliver leadership”
- Retrospective or not retrospective, that is the question
- Bar earnings gap a “serious cultural and structural problem”
- Licensed conveyancer disqualified for “pattern” of dishonesty
- CJC unveils members and terms of reference for litigation funding review
- Insolvency law “entirely capable” of dealing with digital assets
- Harnessing the balance of technology and human interaction
- Suspension for barrister who lied to client over binned files
- Court orders law firm and partners to repay loans from couple
- Solicitor apprentice ordered to pay costs for conduct of failed claim
- Court delays deterring clients and lawyers from bringing claims
- SRA anti-money laundering blitz continues with £76k in fines
- High Court concern over 10 law firms being sued in one action
- Suspended sentence for struck-off solicitor who misused client funds
- SLAPPs review: Law firms show signs of improved behaviour
- Law firm unfairly dismissed long-serving staff member
- Sunak promises ministerial action over SSB Law collapse
- Clinical negligence fixed costs set for October implementation
- Government faces JR claim over litigation funding legislation
- Group action against law firm to go ahead with single claim form
- “A racket” – judge hits out at hidden commissions in PI cases
- People becoming less likely to seek professional help with legal issues
- Probate delays “have made clients suicidal”, MPs told
- Keystone shareholders see big dividend payout after strong year
- Lawhive aims to triple in size after £9.5m Google funding boost
- Solicitor who lied to clients about progress of litigation is struck off
- “Myopic interpretation” of client’s best interests led PO lawyers astray
- Former Lord Chancellor takes second law firm consultancy role
- AI’s legal leap: transforming law practice with intelligent tech
- Former trainee fails in bid to recoup SQE fees from law firm
- Arbuthnot defends Bates backer as peers debate litigation funding bill
- Jail for sex offender given access to child’s data by law firm’s error
- $1.8m negligence claim against City law firm “must go to trial”
- “Actually, you passed” – 175 SQE candidates let down by marking error
- Lawyer cleared of contempt over bogus whiplash claim
- Compulsory small claims mediation to go live next month
- Barrister jailed for drug offences fails in appeal against sentence
- £105k for two days a week: SRA begins search for new chair
- Legal Services Board to probe SRA over SSB Group collapse
- Leading law firm obtained order for client’s divorce “in error”
- SDT refuses to overturn ban on ex-law firm employee over missing cash
- Report calls for major overhaul of BSB enforcement processes
- Campaigners call on regulator to drop Proudman prosecution
- Shocking figures suggest divorce lawyers need to do more for clients
- High Court throws out £55m claim against law firms
- Lawyers join forces with newspaper editors to urge SLAPPs bill changes
- SRA moves language checks to point of admission
- Bar Council clashes with BSB over scrapping degree requirement
- SQE “working well” as firms get to grips with qualifying work experience
- Solicitor apprentice showed “utter disrespect” to tribunal
- Slew of law firms embrace growing B Corp movement
- Lack of immigration advisers “encourages illegal services”
- SRA pulls prosecution after Foreign Office warning
- Law Society seeks extra £1.76m from solicitors to fund activities
- Law firm leaders believe associates are “less loyal”
- “Tokenistic” whiplash tariff “hard to explain to claimants”
- Small law firm launches Australian partnership and tech business
- Solicitor’s tweets moved from legitimate argument to antisemitism
- Treasury seeks to improve “proportionality” of AML rules
- Government reviews role of apologies in civil litigation
- LSB chief: Why are lawyers forced to pay for professional bodies?
- M&A: Big firms buy small as listed legal practices swap advisory business
- Legal Ombudsman delays – still lengthy but falling
- Solicitor convicted of US tax fraud is struck off
- Solicitors launch self-help divorce tool
- Solicitor who lied about working for firm struck off
- Huge jumps in turnover and profits at Co-op Legal Services
- Man denied fair trial after ditching counsel has conviction quashed
- Law Society “risking revolt by members” over conveyancing forms
- Law firm owner struck off for misleading High Court over JRs
- Conveyancing fees down a fifth since stamp duty holiday
- Top litigation funder uses astrophysicists to help cut loss rate
- Big lenders invest £10m in blockchain property network
- Tribunal throws out solicitor’s claim based on sale of practice
- BSB will not investigate barrister over misgendering trans lawyers
- Government to raise extra £35m after trimming list of rising court fees
- Ministers tighten NDAs rules a little – five years after promising it
- Is it time to tune back into radio marketing?
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