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2024
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– March
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- Government rejects multiple calls to reform whiplash claims process
- Strike-off for solicitor who lied to SRA about firm’s closure
- Post Office lesson of “misalignment” between justice and desire to win
- Family judge tells divorcing couples to use ADR before going to court
- Short suspension for junior solicitor who groped colleague
- High Court upholds wasted costs order against law firm
- Money laundering solicitor finally pays off confiscation order
- Lawyers can recover costs of attending rehab meetings “in principle”
- Embracing the future: Navigating AI in litigation
- Don’t put up a barrier with your business, in-house lawyers told
- Probate delays putting law firms in clients’ firing line
- Former Lord Chief cautions against regulation of litigation funding
- Community order for disbarred barrister over antisemitic blog posts
- Restraint order for academic who sued chambers over website reference
- Simpson Millar buys personal injury practice out of administration
- Hefty AML fine for firm that facilitated vendor fraud
- Increased awards for pupil barristers – but also debts
- Solicitor jailed after falling for scam loses appeal against sentence
- High Court rejects immigration solicitor’s “meritless” strike-off appeal
- Big firm moves away from PQE in bid for 50% female partners by 2029
- Students come to aid of unrepresented divorcing couples at court
- SRA warns solicitors over ‘deepfake’ clients and vendor fraud
- Credit hire firm “voluntarily assumed” risk of claimants being dishonest
- Revised litigation funding agreements piling up at Court of Appeal
- SDT clears Dentons of anti-money laundering rule breaches
- People happy with their conveyancers – but don’t know what they do
- A sorry tale of two conveyances
- Motor trade legal advice service launches CIC to handle litigation
- Claimant “does not know” identity of funder backing her case
- SRA tells employers what they cannot ask in-house lawyers to do
- Million consumers make car finance mis-selling complaints in a month
- Post Office victim and SRA chief urge lawyers to call out colleagues
- SRA investigates after-the-event insurance fall-out from SSB collapse
- Firms reported for oppressive “pre-emptive” NDAs imposed on actors
- SRA issues fines exceeding £55,000 for AML compliance breaches
- Bar Council warns regulator over plans for chambers
- Profession disappointed with slim Budget pickings
- “Herd instinct” of barristers can help close gender pay gap
- Seven out of 10 professionals experience “discriminatory behaviour”
- Combatting discrimination caused by algorithms requires a uniform approach
- MoJ mandarin refuses to say if criminal lawyers will get “the full 15%”
- Ex-DPP reported for breaching appointment rules with US law firm job
- Class actions firms join forces with US support
- Management consultant to take helm of Legal Services Consumer Panel
- It will soon be negligent not to use AI, Master of the Rolls predicts
- Rush to meet end of SDLT holiday caused solicitor to let down client
- Failure to engage on diversity “should feature in performance reviews”
- Rapist who complained about lawyers sent counsel ‘thank you’ note
- Motor claims market recovery stalls as volumes hit record low
- Chalk to publish legislation overturning PACCAR ruling
- Solicitor rebuked for making direct approaches to potential clients
- Law firm secretary banned after county lines drug gang conviction
- Campaign group calls on lawyers to join push for NDA law reform
- Judge says he was misled by “fabricated” £74m arbitration ruling
- Partner used colleague’s signature on statements of truth
- Inquiry chair rejects KC’s ‘second opinion’ submitted by Post Office
- CMCs warned over using FCA badge to boost unregulated work
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