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The High Court has refused to intervene in a dispute over the counsel for a claimant having previously been on the record for the defendants.

A solicitor made redundant after her work on the Grenfell Tower disaster ended has won a claim for unfair dismissal because her law firm did not properly consider another role for her.

Listed legal businesses proved a mixed bag of investments last year, with some seeing their share prices soar but others collapse, the annual Legal Futures analysis of ‘Law PLC’ has revealed.

Axiom Ince’s history of consolidating law firms with financial issues saw its turnover quadruple in just three years even before the Ince & Co and Plexus Law deals, its joint administrators have revealed.

The Court of Appeal has ordered the release from prison of a barrister partner of a law firm jailed for breach of an undertaking to the court.

The High Court has dismissed an appeal against a decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to clear former Law Society president David Greene of lying to the county court.

Private client lawyers are divided over whether the rule that marriage or civil partnership automatically revokes a will should be scrapped as a way to combat ‘predatory marriages’.

A former equity partner at Thompsons has agreed to remove himself from the roll after admitting he “recklessly” misled it about the intimate nature of his relationship with a colleague.

Professor Richard Susskind has stepped down as technology adviser to the Lord – now Lady – Chief Justice after 25 years, while predicting that AI would turn the legal profession on its head.

The SDT has permitted a solicitor it indefinitely suspended 15 years ago to return to practise after he provided “full and comprehensive evidence of training in property law”.