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Filing Doubles

24 January 2008
Issue: 7305 / Categories: Legal News , Legal services , Procedure & practice , Profession
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Profession

One in two legal practitioners now submits stamp duty land tax forms online, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) says. The percentage of solicitors and conveyancers submitting forms electroni­cally has more than doubled in a year. In December 2006, 35,753 registered online—22% of all legal practitioners— but by December last year that number had increased to more than 65,000, up to 46%. A study into online filing, published this month on the HMRC website, confirms that solicitors and conveyancers feel the main benefit of online filing is that it makes “registration clear and easy”. For details of the online service see www.hmrc.gov.uk

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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