News archive
2021
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– October
(49)
- Senior judge questions effectiveness of costs sanctions
- Slater & Gordon to offer ADR for all contested low-value PI claims
- SDT releases Ecohouse documents to campaign group
- Bar students need more pupillage data to avoid “buyer’s remorse”
- SFO ends six-year Quindell investigation with no further action
- SRA sends police money laundering reports linked to £180m of funds
- Good customer service now “just as important” as the legal work
- Burford puts $100m aside to fund litigation run by diverse lawyers
- Law Society attacks plan to end witnessing of LPAs
- Unbundled family law service to expand as SRA eyes pilot
- Judge dismisses 28 “identical” divorce petitions from online provider
- Mergers, acquisitions and new firms abound in autumn rush
- Big firms’ support for clients during pandemic hit billable hours but not profits
- Tech firm buys conveyancers to test products in “live environment”
- High Court rejects appeal from sham marriages solicitor
- Negligent firm escapes liability as client “wouldn’t have listened” anyway
- Mortgage cryptocurrency “will lower cost of solicitors’ PII”
- The rise of cyber-criminal threat for law firms since Covid-19
- London law firm launches novel association with Italian MDP
- Judge’s fury at suggestion his clerk leaked draft ruling
- Court finds Withers negligent again but causation lacks once more
- Courts and tribunals to upgrade video technology, Burnett says
- New ABS regulator grants first licence to lifetime planning business
- Students used by law firm for agency advocacy are ‘workers’
- Jail sentence for barrister guilty of child sex offences
- Nearly 1,200 students sign up to first SQE sitting
- CA: Judges do not have to accept unchallenged expert evidence
- Leading solicitors’ mobile phones hacked, Court of Appeal rules
- Law firms a “hostile environment” for CILEX lawyers
- SRA fines Irwin Mitchell for way it switched clients to CFAs
- Second paralegal at firm banned for falsifying time records
- Supreme Court backs claimants in QOCS set-off ruling
- Pandemic has accelerated change in the law “by two to four years”
- Non-practising barrister fined for calling herself “barrister-at-law”
- Immigration and housing lawtech firms among eight selected for sandbox
- How to ensure your ATE cover is adequate security for costs
- Sister and brother struck off for work on dubious investment schemes
- Listed business spends £54m on compliance firm and unveils employment “powerhouse”
- Black candidates least likely to find a pupillage, research finds
- Lawyers “spend too much time socialising with other lawyers”
- LegalZoom is first business to have ABSs in England and the US
- Gender pay gap at Bar has widened over past 20 years
- BT collective action ruling “could open the floodgates”
- Scotland mulls single regulator for all lawyers
- ‘Negligent’ London firm defeats £12m claim for lack of causation
- Solicitor’s error delayed case by a year
- Litigation analytics firm turns focus on IP
- Hybrid working – A rise or fall in future claims?
- SRA bans non-solicitors for theft, fabrication and forgery
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