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Almost a fifth of the largest 200 sets of chambers are not accessible to mobility impaired people, a Bar Council report has found.

The Court of Appeal hearing the Mazur case will have to decide between statutory interpretation and “the contextual argument”, the solicitor bringing the appeal said last week.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has levied fines totalling £550,000 in the past three months on law firms that breached basic anti-money laundering rules.

A solicitor was “quite wrong” to advise his client to make a covert recording of testing undertaken by their opponent’s medical expert, the High Court has ruled.

The Bar Council and Bar Standards Board are looking to increase the cost of practising for barristers by 4% in the coming year, with a new band for those earning £2m.

The future of investment in the law will be more patient, minority investors who would appeal to the top 50 law firms, which to date have shown little interest in private equity.

The level of threats, intimidation and even physical violence faced by solicitors has “significantly increased” and extends across a wide range of practice areas, the Law Society has warned.

There has been a 24% spike in reports about barristers to their regulator this year, according to new figures from the Bar Standards Board.

Safeguarding the wellbeing of those facing enforcement action should be part of legal regulators’ duty to support equality and diversity, the Legal Services Board said yesterday.

While it is not surprising that private equity is interested in investing in law firms, the real question is why law firms are giving away stakes in their businesses, a leading consultant has argued.