‘Government cuts to legal aid means social welfare lawyers are a dying breed. So where will the next generation come from? Step up the Justice First Fellowship.’
The Guardian, 6th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Survey of law students finds strong feelings on influence of upbringing on career prospects, as law firms take new approaches to improve diversity’
Legal Week, 10th December 2015
Source: www.legalweek.com
‘The public believes that the legal system should be modernised faster than is happening at present, with many feeling “the justice system has retained tradition at the expense of efficiency”, new research has found.’
Legal Futures, 3rd December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The government should return regulation to the legal profession’s representative bodies, rather than introduce full separation, the Law Society has said in response to yesterday’s surprise announcement from the Treasury that separation is now on the cards.’
Legal Futures, 1st December 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A probate manager who admitting making 140 “improper withdrawals” over a period of 11 years, resulting in a client account shortage of £730,000, has been banned from working for law firms.
Legal Futures, 17th November 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Responding to the publication of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, Alistair MacDonald QC, Chairman of the Bar, said: “The ‘double lock’ requirement of needing both judicial and senior ministerial authorisation for the most intrusive investigatory powers is not as secure as it is made out to be.” ‘
The Bar Council, 5th November 2015
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The statutory protection of legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients should be high on the agenda when Parliament debates major new surveillance legislation next month. The Bar Council and The Law Society have called for legal professional privilege to receive statutory protection in the forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill.’
The Bar Council, 22nd October 2015
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
‘The government’s offer to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years is far “too low, too slow and too narrow”, according to a statement published by 300 senior lawyers, former law lords and retired judges.’
The Guardian, 12th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Lord Sumption claims rushing to achieve equality could damage the judiciary.’
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Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Dawson-Damer and others v Taylor Wessing LLP and others [2015] EWHC 2366 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 361
‘The purpose of section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 entitling an individual to have access to information in the form of his “personal data” was to enable him to check whether the data controller’s processing of it unlawfully infringed his privacy and, if so, to take such steps as the Act provided, to protect it. It was no part of its purpose to enable the individual to obtain discovery of documents that might assist him in litigation or complaints against third parties.’
WLR Daily, 6th August 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board publishes today responses received to its discussion paper: Are regulatory restrictions in practising rules for in-house lawyers justified? as well as its summary of those responses.’
Legal Services Board, 29th July 2015
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘Law firms will be able to recruit future trainees from their second year at university due to a change in the graduate recruitment code.’
The Lawyer, 29th July 2015
Source: www.thelawyer.com
‘Despite recent initiatives, the legal profession remains a bastion of white, middle-class, privately educated males. So what can be done to make it more inclusive? Harriet Swain reports on a roundtable debate.’
The Guardian, 14th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The First-Tier Tribunal has dismissed an appeal and held that following a freedom of information request Aylesbury Vale District Council was entitled to refuse disclosure of correspondence between its solicitor and the planning department.’
OUT-LAW.com, 9th July 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
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