Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7472

The current review of legal training leads Geoffrey Bindman to ponder his own experience

The regulator of the Bar in England in Wales has announced that it will be working with Bevan Brittan LLP to progress its plans for regulating legal businesses.

Birkett Long has strengthened its partnership with five new partner promotions and three associate promotions—including promoting two non-solicitor staff members to the role of partner for the first time.

The lord chief justice has announced, in concurrence with the lord chancellor, the appointment of four presiding judges.

Sacker & Partners LLP, has recruited three solicitors: Anna Copestake, Katy Harries and Lauren Vose. The appointment takes the firm’s total number of pension lawyers to 53.

Committee attacks bid to end retrieval of clinical negligence success fees

High Court rejects evidence after witness no-show

AXA has become the first insurer to stop accepting referral fees from personal injury lawyers, after publication of a report into the “racket” by former justice secretary Jack Straw

Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, justice of the Supreme Court and former lord advocate, has died at the age of 66

Improved judicial case management would have a greater impact on the area
of defamation law than a new Act of Parliament, according to the Civil Justice Council (CJC)