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What future for justice?

02 August 2007
Issue: 7284 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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In brief

NLJ’s unflinching commentary on the state of the legal system is attracting attention from legal commentators (see NLJ, 27 July 2007). Writing in The Times Online last Friday, Michael Herman refers to “legal giants” pouring scorn on Labour’s record, adding that “leading legal figures including Michael Mansfield QC, attack the Government over a series of issues including the independence of the judiciary, intervention in the legal system and failure to uphold the rule of law”. In today’s issue Professor Michael Zander QC reports on the government’s mismanagement of the Ministry of Justice (see this issue
pp 1100–01).

Issue: 7284 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Fox & Partners—Nikki Edwards

Fox & Partners—Nikki Edwards

Employment boutique strengthens litigation bench with partner hire

Fladgate—Milan Kapadia

Fladgate—Milan Kapadia

Partner appointed to dispute resolution team

Carey Olsen—Louise Stothard

Carey Olsen—Louise Stothard

Employment law offering in Guernsey expands with new hire

NEWS
Law students and graduates can now apply to qualify as solicitors and barristers with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
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 dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
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