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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”.

The public would feel comfortable with using an online portal that resulted in a “straightforward settlement” of a personal injury claim without the need for lawyers.

The rhetoric is heating up ahead of the second reading of the Civil Liability Bill in the House of Commons next week, with MASS, the ABI and the Labour Party all speaking out yesterday.

A man charged with a complex fraud has won a judicial review over the offer made by Legal Aid Agency for the fees of his preferred counsel.

Conveyancing firms in the lower half of the top 100 – so-called ‘challenger’ firms – have seen the biggest increase in transactions in Q2 2018, the survey has found.

A hard Brexit could cost the legal sector up to £3bn by 2025, the Law Society has estimated. This is despite a current increase in work preparing for the UK leaving the EU.

The personal injury market is holding up, despite the threat of a “major decrease” in value if the whiplash reforms go ahead in 2020, new research has found.

A regional law firm has launched a motoring law chatbot, with its solicitor creator saying he wanted to stop non-lawyers from deciding the direction of legal technology.

Knights Group – the Staffordshire-based law firm that listed in June – has secured bank funding to support its strategy to complete at least three acquisitions by April 2020.

Riverview Law is set for a huge global expansion over the next five years once EY completes its acquisition, the partner who is to head the new business has said.

A company offering probate and funeral director broker services has insisted its free will service is not aimed at replacing solicitors where matters are complex.