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• CBI sought legal advice over possible insolvency after misconduct scandal

  30-05-2023 20:26
  
  Business lobby group requested guidance on insolvency among other restructuring optionsBritain’s most prominent business lobby group has sought guidance on possible insolvency as it battles for survival in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.The legal advice was requested by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) before the publication on Wednesday of a prospectus setting out plans to turn around the organisation. Members will be asked to decide on its future in a confidence vot
  
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• CBI seeks legal advice over possible insolvency in wake of scandal

  30-05-2023 20:26
  
  Business lobby group requests guidance on restructuring options as it battles for survival after sexual misconduct allegationsBritain’s most prominent business lobby group has sought guidance on possible insolvency as it battles for survival in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.The legal advice was requested by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) ahead of the publication on Wednesday of a prospectus setting out plans for a turnaround of the organisation. Members will be ask
  
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• Cross-party parliamentary groups unite in the name of justice

  30-05-2023 17:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Labour and Conservative MPs to chair new all-party parliamentary group.
  
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• Cross-party parliamentary groups merge in the name of justice

  30-05-2023 17:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Labour and Conservative MPs to chair new all-party parliamentary group.
  
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• 'Robust' DWF says cost reductions set to save £15m a year

  30-05-2023 16:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Shares climb as firm issues upbeat trading statement to London Stock Exchange.
  
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• DWF says costs reductions likely to save £15m a year

  30-05-2023 16:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm upbeat in latest trading statement to the London Stock Exchange.
  
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• Nearly 70% of rape victims drop out of investigations in England and Wales

  30-05-2023 16:00
  
  Exclusive: MoJ statistics unearthed by Labour as party presses Rishi Sunak to improve conviction ratesUK politics live – latest updatesNearly 70% of rape survivors dropped out of the justice system in the fourth quarter of last year, according to official government data.Amid court delays, low police conviction rates and fears over the trauma of reliving the crime in court, 69.2% of those subjected to a serious sexual assault withdrew from investigations.In the UK, Rape Crisis offers suppo
  
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• Serco fined £2.25m after custody officer killed in court

  30-05-2023 15:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The employee suffered brain injuries after being kicked twice by prisoner.
  
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• Man spared jail after six-year delay in case coming to court

  30-05-2023 13:12 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge cites time waiting for court hearing as a reason for non-custodial sentence.
  
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• Post Office lawyers accused of muzzling Horizon victims

  30-05-2023 12:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City lawyer and commentator Dan Neidle complains to SRA over compensation offer letters to postmasters that said details were confidential.
  
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• Post Office lawyers accused of gagging Horizon victims

  30-05-2023 12:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City lawyer and commentator Dan Neidle complains to SRA over compensation offer letters to postmasters that said details were confidential.
  
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• KC's appeal against 12-month suspension dismissed

  30-05-2023 12:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judges find no grounds for High Court to interfere with imposed sanctions.
  
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• Lord Carswell obituary

  30-05-2023 12:25
  
  Barrister and judge who served as lord chief justice of Northern IrelandThe day before Robert Carswell was sworn in as a high court judge in 1984, he spotted a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of his car. The eventual lord chief justice of Northern Ireland and law lord, who has died aged 88, alerted the security forces, but an attempt to defuse the device was only partially successful.“There was an immense amount of damage done to my car – which was a write-o
  
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• Private equity pumps eight-figure sum into disrupter barrister group

  30-05-2023 07:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  First PE investment in the bar is through a non-traditional model.
  
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• News focus: Law Commission seeks to bust rape myths

  30-05-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Law Commission has unveiled a raft of proposals on the use of evidence in sexual offence prosecutions – but will they end the ‘pervasive rape myths’ that continue to beset these cases?
  
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