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“Tension” and a “lack of collaboration” between tech firms from legal and non-legal backgrounds is holding back the development of lawtech services for small businesses and consumers..

The cost of practising as a solicitor looks set to increase significantly this year after the SRA warned yesterday that it would be seeking more funding from the profession.

It is “five years too late” for regulators in the UK to provide “any meaningful response” to the challenges raised by AI, the chief executive of the Legal Services Board said yesterday.

There is “a group of clients who should not be represented by lawyers” and the profession should be discussing where to draw the line, a leading anti-corruption campaigner has argued.

The ‘Declaration of Conscience’ that has sparked a heated debate on the need for the cab-rank rule is just a “magician’s trick” and “a performative, protest document”, the chair of the CBA has said.

A law firm has successfully fought off a former client’s bid to broaden a multi-million-pound negligence claim after the High Court found the losses too remote to be recoverable.

The “cultural difficulties” of the Serious Fraud Office, including “improper contacts” between officials and companies being investigated, necessitate “drastic change”.

In-house lawyers based in the UK are more concerned by the risk of economic instability than colleagues in other parts of the world, a large-scale global study has found.

The Ministry of Justice must publish data on the backlogs of individual criminal courts, a group that campaigns to improve public data has said.

A man who learnt that his lower leg needed amputating seven years after settling his personal injury claim is not prevented by limitation from suing his lawyers for negligence.