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• LAA portal back online following data breach

  09-05-2025 15:27 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  System was switched off to practitioners while steps taken to bolster security and protect information.
  
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• Buckles acquires London cross-border boutique

  05-11-2026 11:02 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Six lawyers join Peterborough-headquartered firm as partners.
  
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• Public inquiries 'too adversarial', Manchester Arena judge tells peers

  05-11-2026 10:45 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Former senior judge says criticisms that public inquiries are too long, expensive and achieve nothing not entirely unjustified.
  
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• LeO asks for 6.9% budget increase alongside new fee charges

  05-11-2026 10:05 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Organisation making plans for dealing with 21,000 complaints about lawyers next year.
  
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• Minister promises legal regulation 'reset' - in 2029

  05-11-2026 01:01 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Government's response to review of LSB says it backs ‘significant change’ to strengthen the effectiveness of legal services regulation.
  
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• Judge dismisses LiP's 'conflict of interest' bid to remove firm

  04-11-2026 17:45 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Judge finds ‘simply no evidence…to conclude that disclosure has arisen’ from a deliberate act, inadvertent disclosure or unconscious influence or subconscious influence.
  
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• Intellectual Property Office gets new weapons to protect design

  04-11-2026 17:33 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Legislation will give the office powers to consider whether a design is genuinely new before it is registered.
  
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• 'Sycophantic' AI inflaming litigants in person, digital justice expert claims

  04-11-2026 17:20 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Nuffield Family Justice Observatory report also warns against dangers of embedding overseas software in justice system.
  
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• 'Retraumatised': Grieving father received court bundle evening before inquest

  04-11-2026 13:33 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Bereavement support charity says 'Hillsborough law' could stop bereaved families receiving late disclosure.
  
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• Solicitors invited to contribute to review of police accountability

  04-11-2026 13:07 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  'Once in a generation opportunity fundamentally to reform the police accountability system.'
  
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• CPS cited non-existent authority in rape prosecution

  04-11-2026 12:59 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  High Court finds fake citation ‘unsatisfactory’ - but it did not affect the outcome of prosecution decision challenge.
  
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• Personal injury heavyweights swallow up more of the claims sector

  04-11-2026 12:09 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Manchester PI firm established 53 years ago one of those to be acquired.
  
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• Legal academic elected as first UK International Court of Justice judge in a decade

  04-11-2026 11:23 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Election a clear signal tthat the UK is back on the world stage and ready to play its part in upholding the rule of law, says prime minister.
  
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• Weil trainees rescued by fellow US firm's London office

  04-11-2026 10:29 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Latham & Watkins ‘delighted to welcome this talented group’.
  
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• Weil trainees rescued as Gibson Dunn prepares to hire dozens of lawyers

  04-11-2026 10:29 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Latham & Watkins ‘delighted to welcome talented group’, as Gibson Dunn swoops for 120 lawyers in London and US.
  
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• Five Weil trainees rescued by fellow US firm's London office

  04-11-2026 10:29 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Latham & Watkins ‘delighted to welcome this talented group’.
  
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• Master's voice: Sir Geoffrey Vos's greatest hits

  03-11-2026 17:32 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Outgoing MR placed technology at the centre of an efficient civil justice system, setting out a revolutionary vision. So how many of his predictions are approaching reality?
  
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• In depth: Sir Geoffrey's greatest hits

  03-11-2026 17:32 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Outgoing master of the rolls placed technology at the centre of an efficient civil justice system, setting out a revolutionary vision. So how many of his predictions are approaching reality?
  
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• His Master's voice: Sir Geoffrey Vos's greatest hits

  03-11-2026 17:32 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  As MR Sir Geoffrey set out a revolutionary vision placing technology at the heart of efficient civil justice. So how many of his predictions are approaching reality?
  
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• High Court dismisses anonymous celebrity's bid for injunction over risk to life

  03-11-2026 16:46 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Mr Justice Nicklin grants permission to appeal judgment rejecting famous figure’s attempt to block publication of 'serious allegations' against him.
  
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• 'Strong and stable': Weil’s UK profits soared before firm’s shock demise

  03-11-2026 15:10 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  UK bosses spoke of sustained demand in the first half of 2026 and stressed the firm’s ‘strong liquidity position’.
  
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• FCA fires claims warning as Barclays goes early on motor finance redress

  03-11-2026 13:10 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Amid legal deadlock, City watchdog reminds customers that they do not need to use a law firm or CMC.
  
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• High Court to decide on celeb's 'risk-to-life' anonymity injunction

  03-11-2026 12:41 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Mr Justice Nicklin, head of the media and communications list, is due to hand down his judgment at 2pm.
  
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• Contempt proceedings over MI5 false evidence 'not in the public interest'

  03-11-2026 12:14 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Lady chief justice rules that CPS is the ‘proper body’ to decide whether to prosecute officers over false evidence given to court.
  
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• Support staff face redundancy as £27m merger deal complete

  03-11-2026 11:41 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Moore Barlow brought into Knights business which strengthens national firm’s presence in south east.
  
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• Support staff face axe as £27m merger deal completes

  03-11-2026 11:41 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Moore Barlow brought into Knights business, strengthening national firm’s presence in south east.
  
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• Ombudsman braced for 21,000 lawyer complaints next year

  03-11-2026 10:52 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Increases in resolved cases cannot keep pace with the rise in reports coming in.
  
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• MPs blast government's 'inadequate' legal aid response

  03-11-2026 01:01 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Justice committee says monitoring decline with promise of solutions later is not good enough.
  
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• Tribunal upholds bar imposed more than 20 years ago

  02-11-2026 17:44 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Individual who applied to revoke section 43 order leaves hearing after being refused an adjournment.
  
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• Mariana row goes on, as client committee goes to Court of Appeal

  02-11-2026 13:43 via Law Gazette - Headlines
  
  Client committee says claimants face having to individually decide whether to change representatives.
  
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