News archive
2022
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– January
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- Insurers invest in new professional negligence ABS
- Number of pupil barristers rebounds after Covid-related slump
- High Court spreads load as it transfers JR from London to Manchester
- Legal problem diagnosis app crowdfunds cash for expansion
- Multi-disciplinary network strikes third UK deal with BSB-regulated firm
- US should “prod” UK into action over oligarch enablers like lawyers
- Call for culture shift as one in six young barristers want to quit
- Grant programme has helped 10,000 LiPs, says government
- BSB considers regulating intermediaries after Absolute Barrister collapse
- Collapse in number of motor claims continues but clin neg cases jump
- Immigration solicitor certified LPA without checking client’s capacity
- Bid to improve consistency of sanctions for sexual and racial misconduct
- Barrister suspended for lewd comments to mini-pupil fails in appeal
- Automated justice: striking the balance in injury claims
- Accountancy body refused permission to exit probate regulation
- Flaux: Remote hearings robbing junior lawyers of vital experience
- Solicitor “failed to notice” client’s judicial review had been struck out
- Law firms eye M&A as route to private equity or listing
- Judge married to Tory grandee refuses to recuse herself in ex-MP case
- Race disparity remains as first SQE results are unveiled
- High-profile City litigator fails in appeal against strike-off
- Conveyancers: are you afraid of outsourcing?
- Law firms helping oligarchs suppress criticism “a cancer”, says MP
- Lawyer jailed after defying order to hand over firm’s files to SRA
- Judge bemoans huge costs of 17-inch boundary dispute
- Firm comes off record in face of harassment by angry ex-husband
- Partners fined for letting non-lawyer take control of group litigation
- City firm launches domestic abuse support service for staff
- Insurance firm develops AI app to boost clients’ reserving
- Lawyers hits back at attacks by international bodies on privilege
- Solicitor struck off for taking advantage of elderly client
- Criminal law solicitors suffering more than barristers, says Bellamy
- MoJ threatened with fine over huge data request backlog
- Barrister disbarred for false judicial review promise
- You win some, you lose some – class actions post Google
- Solicitor who “accidentally bought run-off cover” struck off
- Negligence claim brought over negligence claim to proceed
- “Warehoused” case against law firm struck out
- Conveyancers might be forced to buy cyber-insurance in PII rejig
- High Court allows in-house lawyer to appear in $213m contract battle
- MIB to probe why unrepresented claimants are shunning whiplash portal
- City firm boss and general counsel join slimmed-down SRA board
- Elevate becomes second business with US and English ABSs
- Clinical negligence, a changing market – part 1
- Struck-off solicitor accuses SDT of Islamophobia in bid to return to profession
- Barrister jailed for five-year fraud to reduce amount of tax he paid
- Law firm launches collective action against Facebook on behalf of 44m users
- Pearson and CILEX to begin work on creating legal services T-Level
- Vos: We need to strain every sinew to educate lawyers about blockchain
- New barrister-run litigation firm chooses SRA regulation
- Solicitor jailed for contempt after defying SRA court orders
- Employee ownership “best way to deal with succession”, says Yorkshire firm
- Junior solicitor at SRA’s lawyers struck off for misleading client
- Leading litigation loan provider owes backer £43m, administrators reveal
- In-house lawyer struck off after child pornography conviction
- Combining other professional services with legal is delivering, says Gateley
- Medical negligence claims process can be “inhumane experience”
- Lawyers back Raab decision to extend remote witnessing of wills
- How to set your law firm up for success in 2022
- Law firm that held deposits defeats claim over failed property development
- The courts don’t care about us, criminal barristers say as strike looms
- Pandemic has put “wind in sails” of recruitment, says listed law firm
- Law firm’s prisoner charity doubles caseload in six months
- Find another way to resolve dispute, High Court tells parties
- Pandemic turned Slater & Gordon profit into £20m loss
- High Court strikes out law professor’s libel claims
- S&G refunds £4,000 deduction in latest Checkmylegalfees clash
- Are you ready to sign a personal guarantee to secure your indemnity insurance?
- First law firm deal for ‘House of brands’ group
- Judge slashes QC’s £110k brief fee for case that settled before trial
- CILEX member permanently excluded after fraud convictions
- LPC pass rate holds up despite pandemic
- Advocates use ‘with respect’ in court as “marker of disrespect”
- Costs judges “can deal with disputes” over law firm retainers
- Mishcon de Reya hit with big fine for anti-money laundering failures
- Record year for City partner recruitment in 2021
- Accountants finally fall into line on price transparency for probate work
- Appeal judges shut door on single-stage flight claims
- Law PLC delivers for investors as listed firms’ share prices soar
- ‘Director deadlock’ on future direction contributed to failure of top PI firm
- Funder refused permission to use privileged material in ‘fraud’ claim
- How English law is failing Islamic communities and ethnic minorities
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