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The Solicitors Regulation Authority still has “a long way to go” on diversity, its chief executive has said – although its gender and ethnicity pay gaps are shrinking.

Generative AI could be a “potentially useful secondary tool” for judges to use in the course of their work, according to new guidance from the senior judiciary.

One of the three Axiom Ince directors whose individual practices were shut down by the SRA has dropped his High Court challenge to the decision, Legal Futures can reveal.

An increasing number of law firms are ditching low-value RTA claims as a result of the whiplash reforms, having tried and failed to make them profitable under the new regime.

The UK must support innovation in legal services, particularly lawtech, to “foster job creation and drive economic growth across the country”, The CityUK has said.

The deputy head of civil justice has called for a “standards first” approach to digitisation, enabling those involved in a dispute to arrive “at any point” in the system.

Law firm innovator Alice Stephenson has turned her business into an unregulated practice, citing problems with HM Revenue & Customs and the costs of running a regulated law firm.

A struck-off solicitor has been jailed for nearly six years for defrauding clients of £880,000, which he used to prop up his practice and pay off loans.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal was wrong to identify a rule that prevents defendants communicating directly with members of an opt-out class action, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The average time from issue to trial on the small claims track hit an all-time high in the last quarter, with litigants having to wait an average of 55.6 weeks.