News archive
2019
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– April
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- Pioneering local authority shared legal service eyes ABS move
- SRA: Law firm harassment cases behind majority of NDA complaints
- GDPR and Brexit – a view from the European Commission
- Solicitor fined £8,000 for second drink-driving conviction
- PI solicitors who breached referral fee ban tried to blame SRA
- Solicitor convicted of sending woman abusive Facebook messages
- Small firm solicitors “highly stressed but enjoying their jobs”
- CLC set to back third-party managed accounts
- Law firm “can recoup outlay” from apprentice who quit early
- Solicitor convicted over cannabis farm suspended from practice
- Paralegal jailed for swindling money from clients’ estates
- Firms “putting profit ahead of lawyers’ mental health”
- Protectionism: Is it really all that bad?
- High Court criticises SDT’s “lack of clarity” as it overturns strike-off
- Academics and Law Society clash over in-house accountabillity
- Barristers told: Don’t be so negative with colleagues
- Tribunal halves CMC’s £200k fine for calling people it shouldn’t
- Solicitor fails in libel claim over treatment of clients
- Consumer panel attacks SRA over freelance solicitors ‘u-turn’
- Immigration adviser who acted beyond remit referred to regulator
- Barrister and solicitor thrown out of profession for sex offences
- Plexus chief: PE investment is “entirely different” this time
- UK “dependent on EU” for liberalisation of legal services
- Law firm has “no real prospect” of defending £5.2m claim
- Union rallies lawyers to fight “poverty pay” in legal sector
- Ex-Simmons partner “must bring discrimination claim in France”
- Barrister’s non-contractual fees “vest in trustee in bankruptcy”
- Solicitor sanctioned for role in fraudulent transfer of Islamic centre
- Danger IDD
- Wellbeing course aims to help lawyers “work sensibly”
- The Sun forced to correct “damaging” Leigh Day story
- Convicted solicitor MP to face disciplinary tribunal
- Mid-sized law firms recording solid growth, major survey finds
- Land Registry successfully transfers house using blockchain
- Solicitor convicted of subletting council home
- Female lawyers speak out over pregnancy discrimination
- Solicitor’s discrimination claim to continue despite Twitter campaign
- Insurers “not interested in backing freelance solicitors”
- Ethical impacts from AI “unimaginable”, says EU think tank
- Business intelligence meets artificial intelligence
- Law firm insolvencies hit new high amid ‘loan stacking’ warning
- Anexo pledges to keep growing law firm after strong results
- Susskind hits back at online court critics
- High Court rejects bomb hoax barrister’s appeal
- Co-op sees legal services turnover and profit soar
- Solicitor caught in TV sham marriage sting struck off
- Judges, police and lawyers warn MPs over court modernisation
- Lammy: Lack of BAME judges is due to discrimination
- SDT to move to civil standard of proof
- Fintech and the law: Can we keep it up?
- Carbon opens door for retiring partners to sell client portfolios
- Conveyancers “underquoting to win business”, SRA suggests
- Divorce to be wholly online “within months”
- Victim of senior partner’s f-word tirades awarded £47,000
- Negligence claim over football club chairman’s divorce to proceed
- Gordon Dadds share price rallies after international network deal
- Blockchain trial “has potential to transform property market”
- How to manage your legal practice for success
- New video hearings pilot will test “more robust software”
- Instances of judges bullying female barristers exaggerated, says LCJ
- Solicitor fined £45,000 for putting son’s interests before clients
- EY ramps up legal services offering with Thomson Reuters deal
- Weinstein NDA solicitor referred to disciplinary tribunal
- Tesco Law at last? SRA rules could herald “new breed of MDP”
- High Court strikes off overcharging solicitor
- Jail for bogus barrister who scammed his way to pupillage
- Second time lucky? Plexus Law secures £15m PE investment
- Take our survey and get a 15% discount to Legal Futures events
- Exclusive: Tile entrepreneur backs personal injury firm launch
- Discriminatory instruction barrister: Fault is system’s not solicitor’s
- Regulation shift leads to further fall in number of CMCs
- Loans made by firms before interventions do not go to SRA
- Unrepresented PI litigants to receive “expert view” on claims
- Solicitors must think about “impression created” by NDAs
- Tax fraud solicitor proclaims innocence as he accepts strike-off
- Legal industry awards – are they worth entering?
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