News

---

The civil courts’ case management system is a limitation of the ability of solicitors to join multiple claims to a single claim form, a High Court judge has said.

The Court of Appeal has rejected criticisms of his legal team by a man jailed for possessing cocaine with intent to supply, saying counsel’s advice was “accurate and realistic”.

FDR Law, a general practice bought by Taylor Rose in 2021, has been relaunched as a specialist property law firm for self-employed consultants.

Two solicitors convicted of failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis after minor car accidents have been fined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

The International Legal Technology Association has published a draft best practice guide for the use in e-discovery of active learning, which it hopes will be officially endorsed.

The slow creep of ABSs into the US is set to take a significant step forward next month when plans for a pilot are put to the supreme court of Washington state.

An assistant coroner overheard describing a barrister’s submission as “bollocks” and a judge who took 16 months to produce a ruling have been disciplined for misconduct.

Social media-loving lawyers have been moving en masse this week from X to BlueSky, with one chambers saying Elon Musk’s site “contradicts” its values.

Charging law firms fees of £250 per case to bring complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service could make volume complaints “unmanageable”, the Law Society has warned.

An “all-rounder” KC with 56 years of experience as a barrister will become the Lord Chief Justice of Tonga next month and president of its Land Court.