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Alex Chalk named as new Justice Secretary
Workplace behaviour
Illegal Migration Bill amendment
Climate change guidance
Gender pay gap reporting
Six Clerks Restaurant
In conversation with Lubna Shuja
Diva Power List
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Illegal Migration Bill amendment
Climate change guidance
Economic crime report
Crown Courts backlog
Basic income for asylum seekers
Lack of judicial diversity
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Climate change guidance
Criminal court backlogs
Basic income pilot
Working from home
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Climate change regulation
Role of AI in the legal sector
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Civil legal aid deserts
Consumer advice
Criminal courts backlog
The Probate Network
Student Pro Bono Awards
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Lawyers survey access to justice
Criminal courts backlog
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Civil legal aid deserts
Court disrepair
‘No-fault’ divorce
Decline in access to justice
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Civil legal aid deserts
Decline in access to justice
‘No-fault’ divorce
Legality of commercial spyware
Financial Benchmarking Survey
Role of AI in the legal sector
Solicitor qualifications for international students
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‘No-fault’ divorce
LPAs in Scotland
PC holders survey 2022
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Civil legal aid deserts
Delays in the family courts
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Civil legal aid deserts
Delays in the family courts
Backlog in the criminal courts
Prisoners not attending their sentencing hearing
Lawyers at risk in Azerbaijan
Government investment incentive scheme
Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme
Role of paralegals in profession
Law firms and TikTok
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Civil legal aid deserts
Surrogacy in the spotlight
Economic Crime Plan 2
President to speak to law students
Rules for UK-India legal agreement need clarification
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Civil legal aid deserts
Court disrepair and backlogs
Court reform
Economic Crime Plan 2
India opens legal services sector
Family court delays
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Civil legal aid deserts
Economic Crime Plan 2
Full expensing for law firms
Applying for grants of probate
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Tenants’ rights
Practising fees
Mandatory mediation
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Court delays in rape trials
Professional ethics
Mandatory mediation
Diversity in law
National Conveyancing Week
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Court delays: Hundreds of rape trials collapsing
Mandatory mediation
Marking Ramadan at work
Court reform
Planning reform focus on ‘beauty’
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Court delays: Hundreds of rape trials collapsing
Conveyancing fraud
Mandatory mediation
Court reform
LSB reserved legal activities list
Softening PII market
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Mandatory mediation
India opens up legal services sector
Court reform
LSB reserved legal activities list
Fly-tipping fines
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Criminal legal aid judicial review
India opens up legal services sector
Law Society TikTok launch
LSB reserved legal activities list
Covid penalties back in the spotlight
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India opens up legal services sector
LSB reserved legal activities list
Illegal Migration Bill
Firms shy away from verifying overseas entities
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India opens up legal services sector
Power of attorney
Judicial review
Toxic working conditions
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Conveyancing transactions
Law Society launches on TikTok
Industrial action
Client account interest and good causes
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India opens legal service sector
Illegal Migration Bill
Spring Budget response
21st Century Justice Project
Perverting the Course of Justice
UK firms given practising licences in Saudi Arabia
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India opens up to foreign lawyers and law firms
Spring Budget response
Committee member on Martin Lewis Money Show
Law Society response to the Illegal Migration Bill
Financial Benchmarking Survey
Legal Cheek Awards
Court of Protection
Foreign law licences in Saudi Arabia
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Law Society response to the Illegal Migration Bill
Law Society budget submission to the Treasury
Changes to Saudi Arabia’s legal market
Law Society research on firm productivity
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Law Society response to bill to tackle small boats
21st Century Justice project
Law Society budget demands
The Big Legal Lesson
Financial Benchmarking Survey
‘Lefty lawyers’
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Law Society response to bill to tackle small boats
21st Century Justice project
Financial Benchmarking survey
Rape crisis
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Changes to legal aid for domestic abuse victims
Law Society response to bill to tackle small boats
LPA and Mental Health Act Reform
Lawyers at risk in Iran
Singapore Convention on Mediation
Equity in the profession
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Law Society response to bill to tackle small boats
International Women’s Day
Employment Tribunal backlog
Iran: lawyers at risk
Law Society legal challenge to criminal legal aid decision
Changes to legal aid for domestic abuse victims
Pay gap report
The climate crisis and the courts
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Law Society response to bill to tackle small boats
International Women’s Day
Legal Heroes campaign
Law Society legal challenge to criminal legal aid decision
Changes to legal aid for domestic abuse victims
Changes to the Saudi Code of Practice Law
Law firms and billings
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New asylum bill to be published today
Legal aid for domestic abuse
Regional admissions ceremonies
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Covid-19 regulations
International Women’s Day: Career progression
Law firms and billings
Changes to legal aid for domestic abuse victims
Singapore Convention on Mediation
Standards and regulation consultation
Legal life of DAS awardee
President attends India awards ceremony
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Who’s your legal hero?
Law Society regional admission ceremonies
Law Society issues legal challenge to criminal legal aid decision
Pay gap report
Adoption scandal in Ukraine
LPA rules
Challenging adult social care decisions
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Law Society issues legal challenge to criminal legal aid decision
Pay gap report
First 100 Years
British Airways customer legal case
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Law Society issues legal challenge to criminal legal aid decision
Spotlight on Chief Executive Ian Jeffrey
Change to age at which couples can marry
Law Society regional ceremonies
British Airways customer legal case
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President to attend India law conference
Deprivation of citizenship explained
Change to age at which couples can marry
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Government attacks immigration lawyers
Court woes in the spotlight
NAO report highlights criminal court failings
Section 28 and the LGBTQ+ rights movement
Diversity Access Scheme
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Court woes in the spotlight
Criminal court ‘Common Platform’ in trouble
Lasting Power of Attorney reform and financial abuse
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Diversity Access Scheme
Protect cohabiting rights
Four-day working week
Regional admission ceremonies
Nightingale Courts
UK’s accession to Hague 19 Convention
Government Legal Department
Home Office monitors immigration lawyers
Housing legal aid deserts
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UK’s accession to Hague 19 Convention
Home Office monitors immigration lawyers
Courts and the climate crisis
Challenges proving financial abuse
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Inheritance disputes
President hosts lunch in Bournemouth
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Nightingale Courts
Employment Tribunal backlog
LGBTQIA rights in the UK
President hosts lunch in Bournemouth
Protecting domestic abuse victims
SRA-run SIF
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Judicial Reverse Mentoring Scheme
UK's accession to Hague 19 Convention
Employment tribunal backlog
SRA-run SIF
President Lubna Shuja judges Legal Cheek Awards
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Hague 19 Convention
The state of the criminal justice system
Solicitors Indemnity Fund
Employment Tribunal backlog
Public legal challenge sees legal aid widened
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SLAPPs: Review of solicitors’ reporting duties
President speaks to law students
Legal aid deserts
Poor court infrastructure
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Housing legal aid deserts
Defence solicitors short-changed by government
Compulsory purchase laws
Poor court infrastructure
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Criminal defence funding pre-action protocol
President discusses Dorset criminal justice system
Crown Court backlog
Section 28 – living two lives
Public law challenge sees legal aid widened
Register of overseas entities
Domestic abuse victim protection
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Housing legal aid deserts
LSB business plan response
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Prosecution fee increase
Presidential celebration
Fixed recoverable costs in housing cases
Gender diversity in the legal profession
Court backlogs
Survey says
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Professional indemnity insurance costs
Compulsory purchase laws
Lord of the Bins vs. Lord of the Rings
Immigration lawyers
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Defence solicitors short-changed by government
Disputing a will
LSB continues focus on equality, diversity and inclusion
New chair of LSB
Deepfakes and intellectual property
Fixed recoverable costs for housing cases delayed
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UK-Korea trade agreement
Solicitor judges
CPS case handling
Released on license
Crown court delays
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Retained EU Law Bill
Deputy Vice President at Home Affairs Committee
Crown court delays
Instructing more paralegals
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SLAPPs reform
Disputing a will
Industrial action
UK-South Korea trade talks
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Civil legal aid review timetable
LGBTQ+ history month
Criminal court delays
New property forms published
Bill of Rights bill
Joint and several liability
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Immigration and asylum debate
New era for law firm fee arrangements?
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Transparent justice
Neurodiversity and autism in the workplace
Crown court delays
Criminal law tensions continue
SLAPPs
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Crown court delays
Day of the Endangered Lawyer
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Bill of Rights Bill
Legal aid crisis
Criminal court delays
Crown Court improvement work
High Court appointees
Day of the Endangered Lawyer
Nationality and Borders Act
In the frame
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Criminal court delays
Bill of Rights Bill “belongs in the bin”
Criminal law conflict continues
High Court appointees
Decision on damages in mixed injury cases
10-minute rule bill on SLAPPs
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Court backlog grows
Criminal law conflict continues
Conflict of interest in public appointments
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Retained EU Law Bill
Media can report from family law courts
Court of Appeal judgment on damages in personal injury cases
Free legal advice
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Legal aid popular with voters
Data protection compliance
Media can report from family law courts
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Retained EU Law Bill
Law Society President at Justice Committee
Criminal legal aid pre-action protocol
Legal aid popular with voters
Backlog fuels remand crisis
Risks of spam texts
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Law Society justice select committee evidence
Custodial remand
Increased rates of divorce
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Court recovery plan
Overwhelming public support for legal aid
Criminal defence funding pre-action protocol
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Court recovery plan
The role of public inquiries
LawTech and legal professionals
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Criminal defence funding pre-action protocol
Criminal legal aid
Shambolic state of courts
Social mobility in smaller firms
How tech advancements affect the gender gap
Neurotechnology in legal practice
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Criminal defence funding pre-action protocol
Civil Legal Aid Review
Anti-strike laws
Updated property forms published
Today’s rundown:
Civil Legal Aid Review
Anti-strike laws
Court infrastructure report
New property forms published
Belsner could revive ‘renumeration certificates’
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Court recovery plan
462 cases listed at Wimbledon Magistrates Court
New property forms published
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Civil Legal Aid Review
Digital Lasting Powers of Attorney
462 cases listed at Wimbledon Magistrates Court
Ukraine fights to uphold the rule of law
Belsner could revive ‘renumeration certificates’
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Legal aid in 2023
Judicial Appointments Commission Chair
Witness interviews
‘No fault’ divorce
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Anti-strike laws
Judicial Appointments Commission Chair
SQE scholarship
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Court infrastructure report
100 years of women solicitors
UK-India Legal Partnership Awards
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Family court statistics
Civil legal aid review
Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund
Rwanda asylum ruling
SRA fining powers
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Court infrastructure report
Rwanda asylum ruling
End-of-year review
Solicitors Indemnity Fund
Backlogs in rape cases
Delivery rights
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Courts disrepair revealed in survey
Rwanda removals policy
Celebrating 100 years since the first female solicitor
SRA indemnity scheme
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Law Society court infrastructure report
Celebrating 100 years since the first female solicitor
Family court statistics
Criminal legal aid
Eviction court delays
SRA proposal for new professional indemnity scheme
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Legal Ombudsman must focus on backlog
Socio-economic diversity in law
Lasting Power of Attorney Bill
Law in the Emerging Bio-Age report
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Bereavement finances
Project Rise
Legal Ombudsman must focus on backlog
Criminal defence
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Sunak’s asylum reforms
Lasting Power of Attorney Bill
Project Rise
100 years of women solicitors
Clinical negligence debate
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New National Board for Wales
100 years of women solicitors
Strikes – what are your rights?
Project Rise
Judicial Diversity Forum
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New National Board for Wales
Working conditions – what rights do I have?
Criminal duty solicitor crisis in Cornwall
Remote hearings
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100 years of women solicitors
LPA reform Bill
Ministry of Justice courts investment
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Criminal legal aid response
Strikes – what are your rights?
Project Rise
Call for step-change in socio-economic diversity
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Royal Mail strikes delay justice
Climate Crisis
Register of Overseas Entities warning
Digital assets in end-of-life planning
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Criminal legal aid response
Court delays
Call for step-change in socio-economic diversity
Tech-enabled dispute resolution
New pilot will allow journalists in family court
Mental health patients must have more involvement in decisions about their care
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Criminal Legal Aid response
Probate application delays
Tech-enabled dispute resolution
Inheritance tax traps
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Raab’s real-terms criminal legal aid cut
Call for step-change in socio-economic diversity
Judicial diversity
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Bill of Rights Bill
Legal Aid Deserts
Ransomware Payments
Release of Detained Lawyer in China
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New statistics show Home Office needs urgent overhaul
Former QC selection chief in line to lead judicial appointments
Today’s rundown:
New statistics show Home Office needs urgent overhaul
Rogue landlords
Consumer rights: Subscription services
Clampdown in Iran
Criminal legal aid solicitors’ strike action
We are in the foothills of true judicial diversity
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Home Office needs urgent overhaul
Criminal justice system crisis
Court backlogs impact on landlords
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Bill of Rights Bill
Swiss-UK Travel Agreement
Clampdown in Iran
SRA fining power
Parental rights advice
Today’s rundown:
Clampdown in Iran
Bill of Rights bill
Swiss-UK Travel Agreement
Justice cuts in autumn statement
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Draft Mental Health Bill deep-dive
The right to protest
Law firms face political threats over ESGs
Justice cuts in autumn statement