HM Courts and Tribunal Service expects to make “reasonable progress despite the challenges” in cutting court backlogs, its operations director said yesterday. The post HMCTS: Some progress likely on “unacceptable”…
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Leading specialist firm Family Law Partners has eschewed approaches from private equity houses to move instead to employee ownership. The post Top family firm chooses employee ownership over private equity…
A law firm boss who told three personal injury clients their cases had succeeded when actually they had not, and even paid them damages, has been struck off. The post…
A negligence claim against a well-known London law firm over erroneous information it gave to a client’s mortgage lender has been dismissed on the basis of causation. The post Court…
The arbitration community is split down the middle on early determination and expedited procedures, but expects AI to play more of a role in its work, a major global survey…
New SRA guidance on transparency issued last autumn – thinly disguised as continued support for COLPs, firms and individuals – was without doubt also borne out of regulatory frustration. The…
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