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There should be targets to help measure whether efforts to improve judicial diversity are achieving their goals, a report for the Judicial Diversity Forum has argued.

A solicitor who dishonestly confirmed that he had witnessed a signature on a lease when he actually had not has been struck off the roll.

A team manager whose unfair dismissal and breach of contract claim against Yorkshire law firm Minster Law was time barred has blamed his solicitors for issuing it too late.

The inns of court are slow to act on behalf of disabled barristers and the Bar Standards Board is to set push them to improve access in listed buildings.

There is a significant attainment gap between providers of the Bar training course, ranging from a pass rate of 94% at the highest to 49% at the lowest.

City giant Herbert Smith Freehills may not be able to avoid the appearance of bias in its work for the Post Office in compensating sub-postmasters affected by the Horizon IT scandal.

Beaumont ABS Ltd, one of the companies in the Metamorph Law group, owes creditors £2.3m. Meanwhile, a winding-up order has been made against another group company.

The SQE could be deconstructed and its modules used to form the “final end-point test” for chartered legal executives and licensed conveyancers as well as solicitors.

A £600,000 print and digital advertising campaign to draw public attention to the landmark £17bn Mastercard class action began yesterday.

An alternative business structure that aims to combine the best of traditional law firms and of the new-model fee-share practices has gone live.