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The legal profession has strongly backed the recommendation of the justice select committee for an urgent review of the county court.

The county court is a “dysfunctional operation that has failed to adequately deliver civil justice across England and Wales”, MPs said today in a damning report.

The government has outlined how it will improve the anti-money laundering regime by publishing a slew of planned changes to the underlying regulations.

The profession has failed to make “significant progress in tackling the structural and cultural barriers to encouraging equality and diversity”, the LSB has declared.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to demand assurances from firms conducting volume consumer claims that they are meeting their professional obligations.

The emergence of third-party managed accounts “may, in time, reduce” the risk of law firms’ client accounts being used by criminals for money laundering, the government said yesterday.

Consumer claims law firm Barings says it is already working with 1,000 people affected by the Afghan data breach, while Leigh Day says claimants will retain at least 70% of damages.

The Judicial Appointments Commission was wrong to adopt a practice of never putting negative material to a candidate save in exceptional circumstances, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Public expectations of compensation over motor finance mis-selling are running “very high”, according to research published by Slater & Gordon.

The Bar Standards Board has rejected a complaint against high-profile KC Jolyon Maugham over his criticism of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the For Women Scotland case.