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• Firm loses appeal over under-settlement amputation claim

  24-03-2023 19:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ’Flawed’ advice from firm meant that claimant did not know he had other legal options.
  
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• South-west firm acquired by 'forward-thinking business'

  24-03-2023 13:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Administrators were called in to Pardoes Solicitors on Tuesday but the firm continues to trade.
  
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• South west firm acquired after administrators appointed

  24-03-2023 13:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Pardoes Solicitors says it has been bought by ‘forward-thinking business’.
  
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• Sony tries to hit pause on copyright battle with Jimi Hendrix Experience estates

  24-03-2023 13:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Music giant claims English courts are not the right jurisdiction for the claims.
  
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• Book fraudster Filippo Bernardini spared jail

  24-03-2023 12:48
  
  The publishing employee who obtained manuscripts from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan was fined and will be deported from the USThe man who stole more than 1,000 manuscripts so he could be “one of the fewest to cherish them before anyone else” will not be jailed.Filippo Bernardini, who worked as a rights coordinator, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in New York in January. Continue reading...
  
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• Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters

  24-03-2023 12:14
  
  Six KCs among more than 120 mostly English lawyers to sign pledge not to act for fossil fuel interestsLeading barristers have defied bar rules by signing a declaration saying they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters or act for companies pursuing fossil fuel projects.They are among more than 120 mostly English lawyers who have signed a declaration vowing to “withhold [their] services in respect of supporting new fossil fuel projects and action against climate protesters exercisin
  
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• Why I’m joining more than 100 lawyers in refusing to prosecute climate protesters | Jolyon Maugham

  24-03-2023 11:57
  
  I cannot support laws that defend those who destroy the planet, and criminalise those who try to protect it. This is a principle I will stand by.Jolyon Maugham KC is the director of the Good Law ProjectThe cab rank rule expresses a beautiful idea: that access to the law – society’s great leveller – is for everyone, whoever they are and whatever they are said to have done. The rule remembers that for a lawyer to say “I will not act” appropriates a role the system giv
  
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• Professional indemnity insurance market 'improving'

  24-03-2023 11:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms renewing PII can expect premium increases roughly in line with inflation for the first time in years.
  
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• PII premium rises dip below 10% as market softens at last

  24-03-2023 11:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms renewing cover this autumn can expect increases roughly in line with inflation for the first time in years.
  
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• 'Wrong people, time and attitude': Society's warning over mediation reforms

  24-03-2023 10:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane says early legal advice would be the most effective way to get separating families to mediate.
  
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• 'Mistakes were made': court reforms paused

  24-03-2023 10:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society welcomes acknowledgement by HMCTS that it tried to 'change too much, too quickly'.
  
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• ‘Historic moment’ as El Salvador abortion case fuels hopes for expanded access across Latin America

  24-03-2023 08:00
  
  Human rights court hears seriously ill woman denied procedure as advocates call for change in region with world’s most restrictive abortion lawsHuman rights activists in Latin America hope that a historic court hearing over the case of a Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion despite her high-risk pregnancy could open the way for El Salvador to decriminalize abortions – and set an important precedent across the region.The inter-American court of human rights (IACHR) this week co
  
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• GCs criticise SRA for 'understating' severity of in-house challenges

  24-03-2023 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator urged to re-evaluate sector review to ensure risks correctly understood, framed and addressed.
  
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• GCs criticise SRA for 'understating' in-house challenges

  24-03-2023 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator urged to re-evaluate sector review to ensure risks correctly understood, framed and addressed.
  
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• Back on the box: Claims firm commits £1m to advertising blitz

  24-03-2023 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Television and radio advertising will be increased, but YouTube also targeted.
  
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