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Litigators need to start preparing for a new era of costs budgeting, with three-year simplified pilots set to start in April, the Association of Costs Lawyers has said.

Awareness of family mediation as an alternative to legal advice is not matched by action, with nearly half of people saying their first professional port of call in a divorce would be a lawyer.

The Arbitration Bill sailed through its second reading in the House of Commons this week, with the government saying the legislation did not need to address arbitral corruption.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has come under fire for closing a complaint about a law firm that represented a Russian warlord without any further action.

Those who use AI in the justice system should be under a duty to “act responsibly”, campaign group JUSTICE has argued in a report trying to secure the benefits of the technology.

Law firm consolidation and changes in Google’s search algorithms hit the number of personal injury cases that listed business NAHL passed to both its panel and own law firm last year.

The High Court has struck out “abusive, wasteful and meritless litigation” targeted at a direct access barrister, her clerk and her insurer – where the damages claimed ran into 27 figures.

The collapse of an Anglo-Scottish law firm in 2021 continues to have significant reverberations, with the firm that took on its business now under close scrutiny from the SRA.

A significant appeal that should decide whether a breach of the Money Laundering Regulations is also a breach of the SRA code of conduct starts in the High Court today.

A veteran barrister who attempted to recklessly mislead the court and failed to provide his direct access client with a competent service has been disbarred.