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Tricia Hemans & Daniel Black take a trip down the IT

Prof Regan defends the MR, condemns the Solicitors Act 1974, & commends a legal triumvirate

Lawyers have welcomed a commitment to update the guideline hourly rates (GHR), review the costs provisions of the Solicitors Act 1974 and uprate the fixed recoverable costs cap

Laura Rees suggests it’s time Parliament reviewed the Solicitors Act 1974 to give consumers & solicitors better protection

Fixed costs, forced ADR, and animal exploitation jostle for space with legal superstars, good deeds, and a whiff of hope in this month’s update by Dominic Regan

The latest word on fixed recoverable costs plus a (potentially seismic) prediction for Christmas feature in NLJ’s The Insider column this week by Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School

Sophie Houghton reviews Part 36 offers & their role in maximising costs recovery in fixed costs cases

Lawyers have called for ‘urgent’ clarity on fixed recoverable costs (FRC), as the much-anticipated regime came into effect

The Court of Appeal has remitted a ‘long, bitter and extortionately expensive’ divorce case for a financial remedy hearing with a litigation funder attached as a party, following a ‘procedural quagmire’

Julian Caddick points out some unintentional consequences of fixed recoverable costs in non-litigated cases

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Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

International private client team appoints expert in Spanish law

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning

Stefan Borson, football finance expert head of sport at McCarthy Denning, discusses returning to the law digging into the stories behind the scenes

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Budget shock for pensions

Lawyers have expressed dismay at the Chancellor Rachel Reeve’s decision to impose a £2,000 cap on salary sacrifice contributions

Have your say in NLJ’s annual reader survey

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Pushback on ‘no win no fee’ ban

The Law Society has urged regulators not to ban the term ‘no win no fee’, as the profession contemplates measures to prevent a disaster like the SSB Group collapse from happening again

Jury trials under threat

The legal profession's leaders have mounted a robust defence of trial by jury, following reports that Justice Secretary David Lammy is considering restricting it to rape, murder, manslaughter and other cases that are in the public interest

Mazur appeal to proceed

CILEX (the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) has been granted permission to appeal Mazur, a decision which has caused consternation among litigation firms

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Costs

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning