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Countdown to entry deadline for National Paralegal Awards!
As the entry deadline approaches, there is still time to submit your entry for the National Paralegal Awards 2020.
Greenland and our disappearing coast
Cottage owners on a famous stretch of Sussex coastline have put out a plea for £1m to pay for urgent sea defences before time runs out. The call comes as new surveys indicate the speed of Greenland’s ice sheet is melting faster than ever, with some of the most iconic UK coastal landscapes and communities under threat.
Sorry seems to be the hardest (and most expensive) word
One of the first lessons we teach children is that when you do something wrong, you have to say sorry. Perhaps inevitably, as we get older and the mistakes and their consequences get larger, the apologies become more difficult but also more meaningful. Nowhere more is this the case than in clinical negligence disputes.
The EU Whistleblowing Directive
In a recent webinar, I had the pleasure of interviewing Maria Mollica, the EU Commission’s Policy Officer, to discuss the upcoming EU Directive on Whistleblowing. Maria has been heavily involved in writing the new EU Whistleblowing Directive. The directive is expected to be in force by the end of 2021.
NLIS celebrate 25 million electronic conveyancing searches
Milestone demonstrates NLIS leading position in the electronic authoritative conveyancing searches market.
Free webinar: Interesting life journeys impacted by history
Join Title Research on Wednesday 27th November at 12:00pm for their next informative webinar, ‘interesting life journeys impacted by history’.
United Nations Foundation honours LexisNexis CEO Mike Walsh with global leadership award
LexisNexis recognised by United Nations Foundation for strengthening equality under the law, transparency of law, independent judiciaries, accessible legal remedy.
Collaboration in the digital age: Why it matters to the legal sector
Lawyers working in today’s market must be able to collaborate. Its global, inter-disciplinary and technologically enhanced nature make it a must. Not doing so leaves Lawyers and law firms at risk of being left behind.
How law firms can help their clients to avoid conveyancing fraud
House buying is an expensive business and conveyancing solicitors hold large sums of money that need to be moved on swiftly which can make them and their clients a target for fraudsters. Headlines and statistics have clearly shown that this is a profitable area for criminals over recent years.
Six out of 10 people admit to never checking their flood risk
People in Great Britain are still not checking the flood risk of their homes, in spite of increased incidents of flood events across the country. 62% of respondents to a new YouGov survey, which was commissioned by property data company Landmark Information Group, stated that they have never checked the flood risk level of their home.
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
