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The credit hire and legal services group that floated in June has announced positive maiden results as a listed company as it looks to expand its fee-earning capacity.

A US class action law firm has used a new platform created by an alternative business structure to fast-track its UK launch, Legal Futures can reveal.

A catalogue of disastrous consequences has followed a reduction in the scope of legal aid, including debt from high lawyers’ fees, poor judicial decisions, and knock-on costs for the public purse.

Setting the small claim limit for road traffic accident cases at a lower level than £5,000 would “fuel claims displacement”, the Lord Chancellor has predicted.

The founder of an online service centred on free wills is recruiting law firms and national charities in a bid to become “the leading will-writing brand in the UK”.

It will not be until 2024 or even 2025 that MPs and others will discover whether insurers have passed on the huge savings the Civil Liability Bill is likely to generate.

The listed company that owns NewLaw Solicitors has announced strong annual results, with the law firm reducing its focus on road traffic accident claims.

Vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists, will be completely exempt from the government’s whiplash reforms, the Lord Chancellor announced yesterday.

The owner of the Bar Directory’s new online home has said his ultimate goal is to create a platform where individual barristers could earn subscription income through self-publishing.

The shadow justice secretary has ripped into the Civil Liability Bill, saying Labour will vote against it as it stands. He said the government had to remove the “barriers to justice”.