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NewsIn depth: ICJ opinion could land UK with massive climate justice bill
Thinktank calls for action to prevent landmark advisory opinion on carbon emissions landing the UK with climate compensation claims running into the trillions of pounds.
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NewsIn depth: Groundhog day on legal services regulation
An independent review of the Legal Services Board has revived debate about the case for a root-and-branch review of professional regulation. But we’ve been here before – many times.
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NewsIn depth: Burnham's devolution revolution
Justice and policing in Wales, control of regional funding and planning powers are the defining issues faced by PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham if he pursues plans for radical devolution. Downing Street (North or South) will also need to resolve key issues of scrutiny and accountability.
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NewsIn depth: Call for action over Windrush compensation
Seven years after the government set up a scheme to compensate victims of the Windrush scandal, solicitor Pauline Campbell has put forward three solutions to get the process up to speed.
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NewsIn depth: People power - public to determine asylum appeals
Lawyers are queasy about the home secretary’s plans to enable lay tribunals to determine asylum appeals.
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NewsIn depth: AI slop - law's quiet epidemic
Unrepresented parties using generative AI to craft claims threaten to inundate courts with a tide of slop. Solicitors as well as judges need to learn quickly how to respond.
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NewsIn depth: New front opens in stalled anti-SLAPPs campaign
A third private member’s bill has revived the apparently stalled campaign opposing strategic litigation against public participation. And there is a fourth on the way.
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NewsIn depth: Law centre data partnership shows benefits of legal assistance
A council and law centre went ‘one step beyond’ in sharing data, providing hard evidence that legal assistance works and should be properly funded. Doing nothing is costly.
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NewsIn depth: Local government lawyers face new political challenges
In a time of radical transformation, the Lawyers in Local Government spring conference urged members to embrace good governance, concentrate on the basics and respect the democratic mandate
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NewsIn depth: Justice to lead government's AI master plan
The lady chief justice says she expects ‘enormous opportunities’. But lawyers warn of the need for safeguards.
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NewsIn depth: New High Court division aims to boost accessibility of justice
Lady chief justice Baroness Carr has unveiled a ‘historic’ modernisation of dispute resolution with the formation of the Business and Property Division of the High Court.
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NewsIn depth: LeO names errant firms in fresh batch of complaints decisions
Legal ombudsman publishes examples of poor service to highlight impact on clients and help law firms learn lessons.
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NewsIn depth: 'Once-in-a-generation' reform of youth justice system
‘Problem-solving’, rehabilitation and supporting parents are at the core of government’s youth justice overhaul.
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NewsIn depth: CAT ready to get tough on 'entrepreneurial' class actions
‘Entrepreneurial’ class actions now appear less likely to proceed as the Competition Appeal Tribunal tightens its scrutiny on distribution of damages, a bar conference heard.
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NewsIn depth: What's really ailing criminal justice
On a Crown court visit, rebel MP Charlotte Nichols and bar chair Kirsty Brimelow heard about what’s really ailing criminal justice. It’s not jury trials.
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NewsIn depth: Celebrating law's neurodivergent community
Comedian Rory Bremner brought his own experience of ADHD to bear on the first Legal Unmasked conference.
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NewsIn depth: LAA cyber-attack - a year on
Family law practice Beck Fitzgerald is up to £80,000 out of pocket following the LAA cyber-attack that plunged the legal aid sector into chaos. Yet hopes of a bespoke compensation scheme have faded.
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NewsIn depth: SFO struggles to hire lawyers – but is it getting value for money from external counsel?
Last year the SFO spent millions on external counsel as it struggled to recruit. The agency had little option, inspectors concede, but it could still improve the quality of its instructions and record-keeping.
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NewsIn depth: Jury trial curbs survive bill committee – but the fight goes on
The Courts and Tribunals Bill escaped largely unscathed on its journey through the Commons - but the parliamentary jousting is not over.
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NewsIn depth: ‘Law has become a geopolitical instrument’, litigators told
War was the theme of this year’s IBA’s litigation forum, with lawyers from 60 jurisdictions discussing how the world has ‘lost its compass’.