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Is the rule of law safe in the Lord Chancellor, Dominic Raab’s hands? In his column for this week’s NLJ, David Greene, senior partner at Edwin Coe, investigates the answer to this question.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Board has finalised rules to bring the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) under control and guarantee consumer protection for post six-year negligence claims following a consultation which closed on 3 January 2023.

With the authority of the President of the Family Division, Mr Justice Peel, as the judge in charge of the Standard Orders Group, has issued a series of draft orders prepared by the Ministry of Justice after consultation with relevant stakeholders and a review by the Standard Orders Group.

Lord Reed of Allermiur has spoken at the International Conference on Implementation of the Rule of Law: the role of the Supreme Court in Modern Conditions, held by the Supreme Court of Ukraine on 20 January 2023 about the UK experience of departing from precedent.

Employed barristers have higher levels of wellbeing, are more diverse and enjoy greater flexibility and work/life balance than the self-employed Bar, the Bar Council has found.

‘Both sides are to blame for the situation that has arisen’, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has held in a ruling on costs in the multi-billion-pound Merricks v Mastercard claim.

MPs have begun an inquiry into whether whiplash claims are being processed effectively following a series of reforms.

A judicial welfare survey found ‘a small proportion of judges who feel that they have been the subject of inappropriate behaviour from sometimes other judges and sometimes lawyers and sometimes litigants,’ the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett has said.

A barrister has escaped immediate sanction for emailing confidential annexes attached to a judgment to a person on work experience as well as their chambers marketing team, which then posted them on the chambers’ website.

Solicitors have been ordered to get tougher on SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation).

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