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The legal sector contributed more than £25bn to the UK economy last year, and every 1 per cent of growth in the legal services market creates 8,000 jobs. That is according to a new report by The Law Society, Economic Value of the Legal Services Sector. ... read more
March 28th, 2016
There has been a significant growth in the amount of money lent to one or other of divorcing couples in order to fund their legal fees. ... read more
March 16th, 2016
Direct access is taking up an increasing proportion of instructions for the Civil, Family and Crime Chambers, 5 Pump Court. Receipts for direct access work increased by 300 per cent in 2015 compared to 2014, as the Chambers’ senior clerk, Tim Markham, writes in an article for the Solicitors Journal. ... read more
March 8th, 2016
The government is proposing to increase the charges for the granting of probate on larger estates. Probate is the official permission to distribute a dead person’s estate. ... read more
March 2nd, 2016
Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, the new chair of the Bar Council, has said that students thinking of qualifying as a barrister will have to spend up to £127,000. ... read more
February 24th, 2016
The number of tenants evicted from their homes reached a record high in 2015, according to figures recently issued by the Ministry of Justice. The figures revealed that 42,728 households in rented accommodation were forcibly removed. ... read more
February 17th, 2016
The opportunity to buy cheap designer furniture will end this year following an EU shake-up of replica laws which makes it a criminal offence. ... read more
February 16th, 2016
Foodles Production (UK), a production company that worked on Star Wars, is to be prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive following an injury to one of the film’s leading actors, Harrison Ford, during the filming. ... read more
February 15th, 2016
An employment tribunal has found in favour a woman, who was wrongly accused by her employer, Starbucks, of falsifying documents, when she had simply misread numbers she was responsible for recording as a result of dyslexia. ... read more
February 11th, 2016
More than 40 years after Lord Lucan disappeared from a London crime scene, the high court has finally cleared the way for his only son to inherit the earldom, according to a report in The Guardian. ... read more
February 8th, 2016
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The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the application by the Bar Standards Board, the Bar Council’s regulatory authority, to become a licensing authority for alternative business structures (ABSs).
This means the LSB will recommend that the Lord Chancellor makes an order designating the Bar...
posted on April 7th, 2016
Report calls for use of plain English in court
posted on December 12th, 2014