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Legal aid: technology talks

17 July 2019
Issue: 7849 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Technology
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Legal software solutions provider Tikit is teaming up with The Law Society to present a webinar on the use of technology for legal aid work on 11 September.

The Tikit team will discuss the administrative, financial and regulatory challenges of handling a legal aid case, and outline the efficiency and cost benefits that the use of technology can bring. The webinar will be live at 12.30pm; to register for a spot, please click here.

Issue: 7849 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus , Technology
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Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

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Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
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