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• Republicans thwart Democrats’ push to stiffen supreme court ethics rules

  02-05-2023 23:31
  
  Democrats accuse top US court of ‘lowest ethical standards’ but Republicans say criticism of Gorsuch and Thomas is unfoundedArguing that the US supreme court has “the lowest ethical standards” of a court in the country, Senate Democrats on Tuesday demanded tighter rules on the nine justices but ran into resistance from Republicans who accused them of being bitter over recent conservative rulings.Democrats had convened a hearing of the Senate judiciary committee after a se
  
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• Anti-monarchists receive ‘intimidatory’ Home Office letter on new protest laws

  02-05-2023 20:26
  
  Home Office claims timing of new powers, taking effect days before king’s coronation, is coincidentalOfficial warning letters have been sent to anti-monarchists planning peaceful protests at King Charles III’s coronation saying that new criminal offences to prevent disruption have been rushed into law.Using tactics described by lawyers as “intimidatory”, the Home Office’s Police Powers Unit wrote to the campaign group Republic saying new powers had been brought forw
  
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• Loss adjustor takes on law firms by bringing claims in-house

  02-05-2023 17:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Sedgwick says new legal services arm can provide 'more efficient and cost-effective' alternative.
  
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• Loss adjuster takes on law firms by bringing claims in-house

  02-05-2023 17:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Sedgwick says new legal services arm can provide 'more efficient and cost-effective' alternative.
  
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• Fieldfisher partner paid more than £7 million

  02-05-2023 16:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Payday equivalent to £136,000 a week follows bumper year for European firm.
  
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• Barrister's race discrimination appeal dismissed

  02-05-2023 15:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judgment finds employment tribunal ‘could have gone further if it were biased against’ the barrister.
  
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• Listed firm snaps up two more firms in £5m spending spree

  02-05-2023 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Knights extends its reach in the north of England with two more acquisitions.
  
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• Listed business snaps up two more firms in £5m spree

  02-05-2023 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Knights extends its reach in the north of England with two more acquisitions.
  
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• Oversight regulator calls for evidence on NDA misuse

  02-05-2023 12:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Services Board to explore the role regulation can play in making sure NDAs 'are only ever used appropriately'.
  
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• Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal | Marina Hyde

  02-05-2023 12:48
  
  Horrific detail piles on horrific detail as the inquiry rumbles on, barely noticedby those for whom this injustice is seemingly not sexy enoughI can’t help suspecting that former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells might have been more publicly vilified if she’d done a bad tweet, rather than merely presided over a firm during the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British history.Forgive the return to this furrow, but no matter how often they are restated (far from ofte
  
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• Legal aid widened but grandparents 'will fall through justice gap'

  02-05-2023 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice announces £6m to support family and friends applying for special guardianship orders.
  
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• Step away from the app, juniors warned

  02-05-2023 12:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Transatlantic conference hears of the potential perils of client communications via social media.
  
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• Litigant who called City firm 'scammers' hit with £4,000 costs

  02-05-2023 11:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Employment claimant penalised for inappropriate conduct and pursuit of hopeless case.
  
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• SRA bans manager who covered client shortfall with own money

  02-05-2023 10:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Rochdale worker had failed to ensure benefit claims were properly progressed.
  
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• Supreme Court rules on liability in Jehovah's Witness rape case

  02-05-2023 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Top court found the religious organisation was not responsible for one of its elder's actions.
  
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• Melbourne midwife suspended over two separate high-risk homebirths

  02-05-2023 06:25
  
  Vcat has ruled Ulyana Kora will be suspended for her role as a private midwife while working for Ten Moons, a home birthing serviceFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Melbourne midwife has been suspended for three months after complaints were made about two homebirths that each required an ambulance to be called.The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (Vcat) has ruled Ulyana Kora will be susp
  
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• News focus: Remote fee-sharing model comes under pressure

  02-05-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New-breed firms such as Keystone have enjoyed exponential growth. But as traditional firms adapt to a post-Covid working environment, is the remote fee-sharing model coming under pressure?
  
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