Court rules treatment of council head in Baby P case was “intrinsically unfair”
LSB to undertake further review in 2013
UK lawyers should take heart from the news that confidence is riding high among their colleagues across the pond.
An independent finance provider has reported a surge in the number of law firms seeking funds for their VAT bills following HMRC’s decision to wind up its “Time to Pay” scheme.
Lawyers have topped the list of entries in this year’s Standard Chartered Great City Race, due to take place on 14 July.
EU member states which prohibited non-nationals from becoming notaries breached EU law, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
The Court of Appeal has reversed the first instance decision in C v D [2011] EWCA Civ 646, which concerned a dispute over land.
Former Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Wilson was sworn in last week as a justice of the Supreme Court at a ceremony at the Parliament Square court building.
Deborah Evans, former CEO of the Legal Complaints Service, has been appointed chief executive of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
IBB Solicitors has appointed Jacqui Skovron as a senior solicitor to the specialist residential development and strategic land team.
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NLJ Career Profile: Ling Ong, London Market FOIL
Ling Ong, partner at Weightmans and president of London Market FOIL, discusses her biggest inspirations, the challenges of AI and the importance of tackling unconscious bias
DWF—Imogen Francis
Director and head of IP team joins in Birmingham
Penningtons Manches Cooper—five promotions
Firm boosts partnership and costs practice with five senior promotions
From blockbuster judgments to procedural shake-ups, the courts are busy reshaping litigation practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School hails the Court of Appeal's 'exquisite judgment’ in Mazur restoring the role of supervised non-qualified staff, and highlights a ‘mammoth’ damages ruling likened to War and Peace, alongside guidance on medical reporting fees, where a pragmatic 25% uplift was imposed
