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The SRA needs to provide urgent advice on how artificial intelligence can be used in litigation in compliance with the Mazur ruling, the Law Society has said.

A leading provider of outsourced services and consultancy to the insurance industry has launched its own law firm to handle litigated disease, illness and abuse claims.

Efforts to reduce the number of avoidable requisitions that the HM Land Registry has to make are working, new figures have shown.

The restriction of funding for Level 7 apprenticeships, like those for solicitors, will not cause a “significant or unavoidable fall” in the supply of skills, the government insisted yesterday.

The Court of Appeal has granted CILEX permission to appeal against the Mazur judgment, saying it “raises an important point of practice”.

The “chaos” caused by the Mazur ruling demands “a courageous, full-scale review of the regulatory framework” in response, the chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel has argued.

The already significant earnings gap between male and female barristers has widened over the last four years, according to Bar Council research.

A solicitor struck off 16 years ago for multiple breaches of the accounts rules, several of them dishonest, has failed in his bid to return to the roll.

While fake cases generated by AI has become a problem for courts around the world, a judge in the US has faced the next frontier: deepfake videos submitted as evidence.

The UK law firm group owned by a global network of professional service firms is set to return to the acquisition trail in the coming months after a “bumpy” couple of years.