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Fee rates leave social workers unable to afford to take on legal aid cases

​A series of recent decisions provide important guidance for litigators over securing fees when a client goes bust, says Grania Langdon-Down

Legal challenges to solicitors’ bills seem set to increase, says Richard Langley

Lawyers often go wrong when explaining the financial side to clients, writes Verity Jackson-Grant

What has Herbert taught us about setting success fees & implied or informed consent? Francis Kendall explains

Welcome court fee U-turn for mesothelioma cases

Personal injury firms are “courting disaster” by routinely inflating success fees, a leading PI author has warned.

Peter Thompson QC assesses the impact of Jackson on the reasonable person

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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