Legal News

LawCare, the mental health and wellbeing charity, has launched a free online course for legal professionals.

The Law Society applied to the High Court last week for permission to bring a judicial review of the government’s implementation of Sir Christopher Bellamy’s recommendations following his Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid.

Former justice secretary Robert Buckland KC has joined London firm Payne Hicks Beach on a part-time basis as head of policy and senior counsel. 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has launched a consultation on a series of reforms to the ‘Help with Fees’ remission scheme for court and tribunal fees, which aims to provide better targeted support for those on lower incomes.

The House of Commons Library has published guidance on 5 March 2023 on how constituents can contact their MPs to complain about personal conduct of judicial office holders and about courts, judges and legal professionals.

With the authority of the President of the Family Division, Mr Justice Peel, the national lead judge for the Financial Remedies Court, has nominated the circuit judges who from 6 April 2023 are permitted to refuse applications for permission to appeal in financial remedy proceedings without a hearing and, if the judge considers that the application is totally without merit, to make an order that the appellant may not request the decision to be reconsidered at a hearing.

Registrations are open for this year’s London Legal Walk, taking place on Tuesday 13 June.

More than a quarter of lawyers have signalled their intention to change jobs this year, according to new research.

Two rulebooks, both alike in dignity, in fair England’s courts, where we lay our scene.

Family lawyer Jane Craig issues a call for action on cohabitation rights, in this week’s NLJ.