Thursday

11th September - Law News

990th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Regional law firms in the UK have grown faster than City firms over the past 12 months, market research has found. The annual benchmarking survey of law firms by accountancy firm Crowe Clark Whitehill found that firms located outside of London recorded a higher rate of annual growth in revenues than their counterparts in the City. Full story - Solicitors Journal

 

Wednesday

10th September - Law News

989th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap


FOCUS OF THE DAY: Allegations that a bullying lord chancellor Chris Grayling acted improperly in his dealings with the Law Society over criminal legal aid reforms were rebutted by his barrister today. In the second day of a case brought by the Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association - and part-funded the Law Society - James Eadie QC said there was ‘no impropriety’ in the way Chris Grayling had acted. Full story - The Law Society Gazette


 

Tuesday

9th September - Law News

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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Goldman case judgment highlights continuing costs issues. Nice try. That’s my reaction to White & Case seeking to get its costs assessed at £1m followed the uncontested judgment in a claim where the firm represented Goldman Sachs. Full story - The Lawyer
 

Monday

8th September - Law News

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FOCUS OF THE DAY: The significance of Magna Carta cannot be understood from a literal reading of a document originally written in Latin in a very different world, according to Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC. Instead, its significance lies in the acceptance of its principles in the intervening centuries. Full story - New Law Journal


 

Sunday

7th September - Law News

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Saturday

6th September - Law News

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Friday

5th September - Law News

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FOCUS OF THE DAY: LSB supports fee-charging McKenzie Friends – with safeguards. The Legal Services Board (LSB) said yesterday that it supports recognition of fee-charging McKenzie Friends as a “legitimate feature of the evolving legal services market”, but also called for safeguards. Full story - Legal Futures

 



Thursday

4th September - Law News

983rd Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Family courts unfair for litigants in person, MPs told. The committee was taking evidence from Susan Jacklin QC, chair of the Family Law Bar Association, Dave Emmerson, co-chair of Resolution’s legal aid committee, Nicola Jones-King, co-chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children and Jane Robey, director of National Family Mediation. Full story - The Law Society Gazette