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Nine charities and patients organisations have urged health secretary Sajid Javid to rethink plans to impose fixed costs on clinical negligence claims worth up to £25,000.

Community care lawyers are limiting the amount and type of legal aid work they do to ensure that their firms remain financially viable. The field is also struggling with recruitment and retention.

The biggest specialist personal injury firm in the country, owned by private equity since last October, has made the first in a regular series of acquisitions for the next few years.

Two solicitors have found themselves in regulatory bother because of the involvement of family in the matters they were dealing with, one a property purchase and the other a will.

The freedom of parties to choose their lawyers should not “transform into an ability to choose a venue”, a High Court judge has said in moving a judicial review hearing from London to Leeds.

The High Court has accepted an apology from a party which broke an embargo on a ruling, in the third such case in the space of just two months.

Fisher Jones Greenwood, an Essex law firm backed by private equity firm Blixt Group, has announced its first acquisition as part of their plan to create a £100m national law firm.

A QC has rejected an application recuse himself from sitting as a deputy High Court judge in a case involving a law firm suing for unpaid fees that itself owes him fees.

A law firm seeking the identities of people who posted negative reviews about it online would need to show it has suffered serious financial loss, a High Court judge has suggested.

Hundreds of law students at Manchester Metropolitan University have begun studying a digital skills course that is the first to be made a core requirement in an undergraduate law degree.