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Most Legal Futures readers will be well aware of the controversies whipped up among the legal profession by the scandal at the Post Office. Should the lawyers have blown the whistle? Were prosecutions made without sufficient disclosure to those charged? Where should an in-house lawyer’s allegiances lie? All these have been raised time and again on these pages over the past two or three years.

In September 2020, the judgment in PLK and Others was published and the profession welcomed the notion that hourly rates applied to Court of Protection work were out of date and it was deemed reasonable for uplifts of up to 20% to be applied to the guideline hourly rates (GHR).

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The swift move to remote hearings in the family courts brough about by the Covid-19 lockdown could be used as a spur to improve family court transparency. That is the view of Sir James Munby immediate past President of the Family Division.

Many headline-grabbing claims are made about clinical negligence litigation. For every story that a growing compensation culture is bleeding the NHS dry, there is another suggesting that healthcare professionals have acted with callous indifference to their patients.