Networking is one of the less visible skills we develop as junior lawyers, and it is often only in hindsight that we ...

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High-profile criminal barrister Jo Sidhu KC has appealed a disciplinary tribunal’s decision to disbar him after he was found ...

CMS has appointed Susie Lind as partner in the firm’s energy and infrastructure team.

City lawyers say judge-only trials will increase administratrive burden on bench and create perverse incentives.

A solicitor who paid off a mortgage using proceeds from his brother’s drug dealing has been banned from the profession. The ...

Cases with a likely sentence of three years or less will be heard by a judge alone, lord chancellor reveals today.

Former Law Society president I. Stephanie Boyce has been appointed as a trustee and chair-elect of The Solicitors’ Charity.

A Liverpool firm publicly named by its council opponent after a failed housing disrepair claim has vowed to not be stopped ...

Support for litigation funding, as the government considers calls for regulation, is 'conditional', regular survey suggests.

But without a radical restructuring, the genie will never be put back in the bottle, and we might be facing a future of ...

Lord chancellor and justice secretary David Lammy will today confirm if he intends to scrap jury trials for all but the most serious cases as part of wider efforts to tackle what he has declared a ...