Today’s rundown:

Law Society Justice Select Committee evidence today
Criminal defence solicitors consider escalating action
Family legal aid deserts revealed
Mental Health Act disproportionately affects Black people
SRA fining powers
Northern Justice

   

Today’s rundown:  

Criminal defence solicitors consider escalating action
 Criminal law firms set to form association
 Retained EU Law Bill reaches committee stage
 New data on family courts backlog
LexisNexis report on legal aid published
Lubna Shuja celebrated as first Asian, first Muslim President of the Law Society
Housing an area of unmet legal need

       

Today’s rundown:

Bill of Rights Bill back on the agenda
Skills Minister attacks immigration lawyers
Pro Bono Week
Law Society President Lubna Shuja’s achievements celebrated
Redundancy: know your rights
Racial diversity in the profession
Mental Health Act disproportionately affects Black people
Solicitor judge appointed to Court of Appeal
SRA’s reporting requirements
LSB launches regulatory framework

                         

Today’s rundown:

Solicitors will benefit from legal aid reforms, lord chancellor insists
Only 90 of 13,000 law firm partners are Black, new study shows
World Menopause Day
Iran must release lawyers
New Law Society president
Criminal courts backlog
Proportionate regulation

                               

Today’s rundown:

Women solicitors continue to join profession in droves
Record number of law graduates
Stamp Duty amongst cuts in mini budget
Arbitration Act reform proposals
Disability and diversity
Family court backlog
President heads to Preston
Only Connect

                                   

Today’s rundown:

Immigration advice scam
Implications of making menopause a protected characteristic
Hold out for India trade deal
Community care legal aid deserts
Compulsory purchase order concerns
Professional undertakings practice note
Legal future: neurotech
Legal risks of Don’t Pay UK

               

Today’s rundown:

Register of Overseas Entities
Human Rights Act reforms
LSB standards of competence
Criminal defence veteran given Crown Court valedictory
Digital assets
Compulsory mediation
SIF to be underwritten by the SRA
Probate update

     

Today’s rundown:

Compulsory mediation
Legal Ombudsman’s complaints cut-off change approved
European Court of Human Rights
Working from home
Wedding proposals
Legal aid deserts
Climate change
Conveyancing protocol
Liberty protection safeguards
Who would be a judge?

       

Today’s rundown:

Judicial diversity
Criminal legal aid: Statutory instrument laid
Legal aid deserts
Heatwave – Can it be legally too hot to work?
Extra funding only scratches the surface
Crown Court backlog
Updating wedding laws

             

Today’s rundown:

Ransomware payments
President talks about her life and career
Bill of Rights signals collision course with rule of law
Criminal court backlog
Funding needed to fix crumbling court system
I. Stephanie Boyce honoured with alumni award

   

Today’s rundown:

Reviewing the papers
Solicitors protest legal aid rates
MoJ to fast-track criminal legal aid fee increase
Cartlidge weighs in on criminal legal aid
#LegalPride2022: Lawyers unite to celebrate 50 years of Pride
SRA’s fining power increase approved
Unregulated legal services

             

Today’s rundown:

Bill of Rights signals collision course with rule of law
SRA continues to pursue increase in fining powers
SRA fining power increase should not be conflated with sanctions regime issues
Conversation about family law with I. Stephanie Boyce

               

Today’s rundown:

High court challenge over Rwanda removals
Criminal Bar Association ballot & solicitors’ direct action
Parking tickets
Spike in ‘no-fault’ divorce applications
Ask a solicitor: How to stop landlords evicting tenants
Crown court backlog

 

Today's rundown:

Crown Court backlog
Legal aid means test threshold doesn't take into account rising cost of living
LGBT+ employees' rights
Half-term flight cancellations: Consumer rights
Evidence lacking for new SRA health and wellbeing rules
Junior lawyers eschew criminal defence careers
Russian invasion of Ukraine

 

Today's rundown:

Criminal justice crisis
Junior lawyers eschew criminal defence careers
Court rules regulator should keep costs protection
Legal aid means test thresholds doesn't take into account rising cost of living
Evidence lacking for new SRA health and wellbeing rules
Half-term flight cancellations: Consumers' rights
London Legal Walk
Ask a solicitor: Neighbourhood disputes

   
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