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• SRA intervenes into firm which ‘closed’ in 1986

  15-03-2023 18:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Residual client funds unearthed after banking client contacted regulator.
  
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• Budget ‘a missed opportunity’ for justice

  15-03-2023 18:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society condemns failure to invest in justice system.
  
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• A fairer way to pay slavery reparations | Letter

  15-03-2023 17:55
  
  John Cookson says only those whose ancestors gained from slavery should be responsible for reparationsThe initiative by the Trevelyan family to pay reparations is very laudable and welcome (British slave owners’ family makes public apology in Grenada, 27 February). They directly benefited from slavery, so this is appropriate. I have serious reservations about reparations being paid by me. The government paying reparations means that my taxes would be used. My ancestors gained nothing from
  
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• ‘Time has come’: door opens at last to Indian legal market

  15-03-2023 13:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society hails ‘historic decision’ as India’s regulator publishes regulations allowing the establishment of foreign firms.
  
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• One in 20 in-house solicitors 'pressured to suppress information'

  15-03-2023 11:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA thematic review reveals tension between regulatory obligations and business priorities.
  
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• SFO not responsible for financial hit to ENRC, High Court told

  15-03-2023 11:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Mr Justice Waksman will decide what damages, if any, are payable to the mining giant
  
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• Insolvency rush offers profits hope for litigation funder

  15-03-2023 09:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Record levels of companies going bust means work is booming for Manolete Partners.
  
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• Lawtech initiative gets a geeky new home

  15-03-2023 09:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Edinburgh-based tech incubator CodeBase and ‘no ties’ network Legal Geek awarded £3m contract.
  
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• Sunak stays silent on Rwanda’s role in DRC war crimes to save UK’s migrant deal | Vava Tampa

  15-03-2023 08:15
  
  As Rwandan-backed M23 rebels massacre and gang-rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who will hold them to account?The M23 rebels are perpetrating summary killings and rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – and they are doing it with the backing of the regime of Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame. That was the conclusion of Amnesty International’s investigation, released in February, into the ongoing violence against the Congolese people.The report tells how the M
  
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• Sunak stays silent on Rwanda’s role in DRC war crimes to save UK’s migrant deal

  15-03-2023 08:15
  
  As Rwandan-backed M23 rebels massacre and gang-rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who will hold them to account?The M23 rebels are perpetrating summary killings and rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – and they are doing it with the backing of the regime of Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame. That was the conclusion of Amnesty International’s investigation, released in February, into the ongoing violence against the Congolese people.The report tells how the M
  
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