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• LAA scales back contingency measures following cyber attack

  22-12-2025 13:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid providers told to move away from email as new arrangements come into force.
  
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• Lammy: 'US will continue to lead the free world'

  07-01-2026 18:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The deputy prime minister and lord chancellor today smoothed over transatlantic geopolitical tensions with a speech hailing the special relationship between the US and UK. At an event marking the start of the 250th anniversary year of the declaration of independence, David Lammy said the US 'will continue to lead ...
  
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• Claims companies implying links to major insurers told to stop

  07-01-2026 17:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Paid-for links brought up the names of some of the country’s leading insurance firms.
  
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• Trump lawyer ordered to defend using US attorney title despite ruling it’s unlawful

  07-01-2026 15:21
  Lindsey Halligan was installed in the position by the president to prosecute Letitia James and James ComeyA judge has ordered the Donald Trump-appointed lawyer who led failed prosecutions of two of his political opponents to explain why she is still representing herself as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, after another judge ruled she was in the position unlawfully.In an order filed in the district’s Richmond division on Tuesday, Lindsey Halligan was given seven days to ex
  
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• Labour workers’ rights concessions to cut cost to business by billions, analysis shows

  07-01-2026 15:00
  Updated government assessment says measures will now entail ‘no more than a modest increase’ for employers Labour watering down its sweeping overhaul of workers’ rights is expected to slash the cost of the plan for UK businesses by billions of pounds, the government’s own analysis shows.According to an updated Whitehall impact assessment published on Wednesday, concessions by ministers could reduce the cost of the employment rights bill for businesses to about £1bn.
  
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• Society cautions government over conveyancer track record

  07-01-2026 13:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government mulls requirement to publish speed and quality of service to improve home buying and selling process.
  
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• First flight of 2026 under UK ‘one in, one out’ asylum scheme cancelled

  07-01-2026 13:55
  Detainees under scheme to return people entering UK on small boats told their plane tickets have been cancelledThe first flight of 2026 to return asylum seekers who came to the UK on small boats to France has been cancelled, the Guardian understands.Detainees earmarked for the UK government’s “one in, one out” scheme who had tickets for a flight on Wednesday morning to Paris were told their tickets had been cancelled. Continue reading...
  
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• Hand over your client account interest, firms to be told

  07-01-2026 13:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice opens consultation on ‘sustainable justice system’.
  
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• Hand over client account interest, firms to be told

  07-01-2026 13:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice opens consultation on ‘sustainable justice system’.
  
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• Axiom insurers sue SRA over failure to stop £64.5m client losses

  07-01-2026 12:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm went into administration in October 2023 leaving hundreds of clients out of pocket.
  
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• Firm sees off multi-million pound negligence appeal

  07-01-2026 10:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against strike-out of claim against Lupton Fawcett.
  
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• 'Stubbornly uninterested': MPs lambast MoJ on legal aid

  07-01-2026 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Department should be renamed 'Ministry of Justice (for Certain People)', says Public Accounts Committee chair.
  
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• SRA to pay £160,000 costs after 'misconceived' pursuit of veteran solicitor

  06-01-2026 18:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator’s  case ‘lacked any proper foundation in law or fact’, tribunal rules.
  
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• SRA to pay £160,000 costs after ’misconceived’ pursuit of veteran solicitor

  06-01-2026 18:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator’s  ase ‘lacked any proper foundation in law or fact’, tribunal rules.
  
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• Banaz Mahmod was murdered 20 years ago; the fight for a law on ‘honour’-based abuse goes on

  06-01-2026 16:17
  After years of campaigning, Mahmod’s sister Bekhal hopes UK government is finally ready to bring in Banaz’s law“I’m always looking over my shoulder. I’m never going to let my guard down,” Bekhal Mahmod said.For two decades she has been in hiding, living under a new identity, away from her Iraqi-Kurdish family. In 2007 Bekhal testified in the trial of her father and uncle for the “honour”-based murder of her sister Banaz Mahmod. Continue reading...
  
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• Law firms could face AML double jeopardy, tribunal warns

  06-01-2026 15:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SDT responds to plan for Financial Conduct Authority to take over regulation of anti-money laundering activity.
  
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• Hill Dicks scores: Everton stadium sponsor reveals double-digit profit growth

  06-01-2026 13:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hill Dickinson has attracted significant publicity after becoming football club’s stadium naming partner.
  
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• Everton stadium sponsor reveals double-digit profit growth

  06-01-2026 13:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hill Dickinson has attracted significant publicity after becoming football club’s stadium naming partner.
  
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• Existing regulation can cope with AI, says Chancery Lane

  06-01-2026 12:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal sector needs clarity more than flexibility to make the most of AI, Law Society tells government.
  
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• I can’t access my father’s legacy after solicitors closed down

  06-01-2026 08:00
  The firm that is holding the files has gone out of business, and complaining may take monthsMy dad died in July in harrowing circumstances. Our probate application was close to being finalised by our solicitor.Then this month we received an email from the solicitor, Samuel Phillips Law, to say it had ceased trading. No explanation was given. Continue reading...
  
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• Top earner at global firm paid £7m

  05-01-2026 15:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Global firm increased turnover in every region where it operates.
  
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• Top earner at global firm earns £7m a year

  05-01-2026 15:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Global firm increased turnover in every region where it operates.
  
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• Watchdog names CMC under investigation after failed judicial review

  05-01-2026 12:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  My Claims Group says it is pausing new customer sign-ups while it updates its procedures.
  
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• Young solicitor suspended over amendment to handover note

  05-01-2026 01:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal found solicitor’s ‘dishonesty was brief, confined to a single matter [and] unaccompanied by gain to the solicitor or actual harm to the client’.
  
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• SRA responds to claim solicitor barred over suicide attempt

  05-01-2026 01:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator says people struggling with their mental health are treated with the ‘utmost care’.
  
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• Trump’s attack on Venezuela without alerting Congress tests limits of executive power

  04-01-2026 16:28
  Trump’s audacious arrest of Maduro marks a conspicuous break with convention, even as previously observed by the president himselfNothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious detention of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia.Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress’s right to know – keeping senior members in the dark until the
  
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• NHS England urged to introduce external second opinion when dismissing staff

  04-01-2026 13:00
  Narinder Kapur proposes ‘Amin’s rule’ named after Amin Abdullah who killed himself after losing his jobNHS England is being urged to introduce an independent second opinion whenever it decides to dismiss a healthcare professional, in memory of a nurse who set himself on fire after being unfairly dismissed from his job.Dr Narinder Kapur, an NHS whistleblower, is proposing “Amin’s rule”, named after Amin Abdullah, who killed himself in 2016, to plug a gap he say
  
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• How Trump circumventing Congress is different from previous presidents

  04-01-2026 12:00
  The disdain as to why information on the Maduro raid was withheld even from senior lawmakers is unmistakableNothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious arrest of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia.Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress’s right to know – keeping senior members in the dark until the operation to seize the strongm
  
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• Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?

  03-01-2026 18:21
  International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushbackUS strikes on Venezuela – live updatesDonald Trump said on Saturday morning that US troops had carried out a “large-scale strike” on Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The couple has now been indicted in New York on terrorism and drugs charges. Trump has accused Maduro of running a “narco terrorist organisation”.Howe
  
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• Government urges public to volunteer as magistrates in major recruitment drive

  03-01-2026 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice secretary hopes to recruit more than 2,000 magistrates over the next financial year.
  
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