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A Bar Council working group has outlined ways to better support barristers applying for silk but also heard calls for a review of the whole appointment process.

A judge has warned litigants in person that, like lawyers, they need to take personal responsibility for the use of AI in drafting court documents.

A law firm which discriminated against a paralegal should not have to pay aggravated damages simply because it advised on employment law.

A dual-qualified solicitor and barrister has been suspended for nine months by a Bar disciplinary tribunal in the wake of a six-month suspension by the SDT.

Creation of the Business and Property Division next month will provide a larger pool of judges and “opportunities to look at how we do things”.

A law firm was negligent in its advice on one aspect of the purchase of investment property but this was not the cause of the client’s loss.

The Law Society has put forward a “targeted risk” model as an alternative to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s changes to the rules around COLPs and COFAs.

National firm Canford Law has acquired ,property services business PDC Group, its first deal since being bought by private equity, as we round up the latest deals.

Tom Goodhead, who was ousted last year as the boss of Pogust Goodhead, is leading efforts to wrestle control of the case away from it, he confirmed yesterday.

The government cannot allow a two-tier system where City law firms are at the cutting edge of AI use while the courts are “stuck in the analogue age”, said minister Sarah Sackman.