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Government, lawyers, the pro bono sector and advice agencies need to come together to create a new, integrated strategy for access to justice, a High Court judge has argued.

The case for re-examining the regulatory framework created by the Legal Services Act 2007 is “growing stronger and stronger”, MPs have told the government.

Lawyers continue to leave traditional law firms for fee-share practices in large numbers, with one of them hiring more last year than any law firm in the land.

Who lawyers choose to act for is not a regulatory issue – and the Solicitors Regulation Authority needs to be clear on this, a leading legal regulatory specialist said yesterday.

A group of 65 lawyers, including 13 KCs and two solicitors who are honorary KCs, has called on judges who are members of the men-only Garrick Club to resign with immediate effect.

The Bar Standards Board could ask foreign lawyers seeking to be called in England and Wales to prove they intend to practise here, it has emerged.

A solicitor has had his employment claim against his former firm reinstated in large part because it failed to copy him into its correspondence with the tribunal.

Interest income at small and medium-sized law firms surged by 1,000% last year, research for the Law Society has found, masking a significant fall in profits.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has outlined its plans to regulate the thousands of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives members who are paralegals and students.

An impecunious defendant seeking to stay an action because they cannot afford legal representation must show they are trying to rectify the situation, a High Court master has said.