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The government is “working at pace” on further restrictions on the use of non-disclosure agreements, a minister has told the House of Lords.

Two fee-share law firms have topped the table for hiring lawyers ahead of big traditional firms, as the model continues to attract new recruits in large numbers.

A high-profile Birmingham solicitor, dubbed the ‘TikTok lawyer’ for his activity on the social media network, has been charged with money laundering offences.

The first woman barrister at the Crown Prosecution Service to take silk, and only the fourth person at the CPS overall, has been elected as vice-chair of the Bar Council.

The Lord Chancellor yesterday rejected the recommended pay rise for judges – but they will still receive more than the government told the Senior Salaries Review Body it could afford.

The litigation funder in the Mastercard collective action has hit out at the CAT’s decision to allow it a £23m profit on its seven-year, £46m investment in the case.

Conveyancing fees hit an “all-time high” in the first quarter of this year in the run-up to the stamp duty deadline, with the average figure up by almost 12% on the same period last year.

There is “a strong consensus” that ethnic diversity is good for arbitrations – but little evidence of this being reflected in the make-up of panels, a report for the IBA has found.

The High Court has rejected claims of bias against the chair of a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal panel made as part of long-running proceedings against a major City law firm.

Defendant law firms are making a lot of misleading “noise” about inflation in credit hire rates because “they make their money from litigation”, the CHO has argued.