‘The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched an investigation after medical records relating to personal injury claims were found in a skip outside a law firm’s former office in St Helens, Merseyside.’
Legal Futures, 16th June 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Judges occasionally lighten their judgments with literary references. The quotation from Alice in Wonderland “Words mean what I want them to mean” is a favourite in cases involving the interpretation of contracts, and Shakespeare appears fairly regularly.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 23rd May 2016
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has refused a request by the liquidators of a company for a detailed assessment of costs agreed by the firm’s administrators.’
Litigation Futures, 25th May 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘City law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has won what it believes to be the first contested application to use predictive coding as part of a substantial document review exercise.’
Litigation Futures, 19th May 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Lawyers have been given a lesson in how to show their emotional side amid rising concerns about robot competition.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th May 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Almost half of all solicitors in England and Wales are women and almost a fifth are from non-white backgrounds, according to the latest figures.’
The Guardian, 17th May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An insolvent firm of solicitors could validly assign conditional fee agreements (CFAs) to another law firm, a circuit judge has ruled in a much-anticipated case that is expected to end up in the Court of Appeal.’
Litigation Futures, 12th May 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Lawyer-led alternative business structures are leaving their rivals behind, the head of north-west firm Jackson Canter has said.’
Legal Futures, 12th May 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has ordered international law firm Dechert to cease acting for the principal creditor of a Russian businessman because it is also acting for his trustees in bankruptcy and has access to thousands of documents that are covered by legal professional privilege.’
Litigation Futures, 9th May 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Alternative business structures (ABS) make up just 4% of all solicitors’ firms but contributed 11% of the profession’s turnover, research has revealed.’
Legal Futures, 27th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Only a change in the law would allow the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) to cover complaints from consumers of unregulated law firms, the chair of the organisation’s governing body has said as he called on paralegals to campaign for access to the redress scheme.’
Legal Futures, 26th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling that had protected law firms from financial risk through restricting the way professional indemnity insurers could aggregate multiple claims.’
Legal Futures, 14th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has upheld a contingency fee agreement under which a well-known London law firm received half of the compensation recovered – which amounted to over £400,000, eight times what it would have billed on an hourly basis.’
Litigation Futures, 13th April 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling that had protected law firms from financial risk through restricting the way professional indemnity insurers could aggregate multiple claims.’
Legal Futures, 14th April 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘It has never been easy to win as an immigration lawyer – but now the government is trying to make it impossible.’
The Guardian, 14th April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has ordered global firm King & Wood Mallesons to pay damages over negligent advice it gave to a commodities business intelligence firm – although they were only 5% of the sum claimed.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 7th April 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A firm which filed its costs budget seven days late due to a change in fee-earner has been granted relief from sanctions on appeal.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 5th April 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘An investigation into lawyers’ fees has found major disparities between firms, with the cheapest charging £250 for conveyancing and the most expensive £3,200 for precisely the same freehold sale.’
The Guardian, 5th April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A settlement agreement provides a central London law firm with a “complete defence” against a £70m professional negligence claim brought on behalf of a Russian oil company, the High Court has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 30th March 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Land Registry can sue a former law firm for negligent misrepresentation in not checking whether a mortgage discharge form was genuine, the High Court has decided.’
Legal Futures, 29th March 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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