Proposals to reform tribunals into a more efficient, independent and user-focused service have been published by the Tribunals Service (TS).
The government is consulting on how to implement the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and crack down on aggressive and unfair trading and selling practices
Law enforcement agencies are to be given new powers to make it easier to confiscate criminals’ possessions and high value goods used in crime, such as cars and boats, the government has announced
Specialist Bar Associations and employed barristers should be better represented on the Bar Council, a new report concludes.
Family lawyers have backed calls by the Court of Appeal for a change in divorce laws following its judgment last week in Charman v Charman.
The government’s handling of the implementation of home information packs (HIPs) is “a complete shambles”, the Law Society says.
The Human Rights Act 1998 did not give rise to a duty of care to the parent of a child on the part of a local authority when exercising, through social workers, its duty to protect children from abuse, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
A former KGB officer is to be charged with the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said this week.
Lawyers are happy, according to a recent survey by recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark
Prisoners’ families face high rates of depression, poverty and housing disruption, with the estimated cost of imprisonment rising by almost a third when the social impact is taken into account, a new report finds.
Commercial firm strengthens real estate disputes team with associate hire
Firm appoints three directors to board
Six promoted to partner and one to legal director across UK and Ireland offices