The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has heard that legal privileged documents between lawyers and their clients may have been targeted…
When Legal Business queried in September whether the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was finally turning a corner after a year…
Justice secretary Chris Grayling has been defeated in the House of Lords over plans to limit the ability of individuals…
The Conservative plan for a ‘British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities’ is finally being made clear today. The tone of…
Although Tory hostility to human rights law is obvious, there’s been vagueness till now about what actual policy a Conservative…
The main constitutional business that ought to be on MPs’ minds at the moment is how to deliver the party…
In a stinging blow to the government’s controversial and widely condemned plans to overhaul criminal legal aid, the High Court…
Fiona Maye is sixty – and a judge in the Family Division of the High Court. Her husband’s about to…
The Law Society has forecasted the UK legal industry will return to pre-Lehman levels of growth by next year, according…
In the days when in-house lawyers have gained increasing influence in law and business, the Law Society could be seen…
It is often forgotten that the received wisdom as the 1990s wore on was that restrictive covenants and other restraints…
The first time I ran into Dominic Grieve, he made a fool of the Labour shadow justice minister, Paul Boateng.…
Energy lawyers are expecting a hike in UK shale gas projects after the Queen’s speech yesterday (4 June) outlined plans…
City law firms may face increased red tape when accepting new clients onto their books after the Home Office today…
The squeeze on the legal profession is in evidence in the latest annual statistics report from the Law Society, which…
The Law Society has today (24 April) announced that TLT Solicitors senior partner Robert Bourns has been elected as the body’s…
Despite fierce accusations from within the senior echelons of the legal profession that the Government has failed to comprehend the…
With the impact of the latest cuts to legal aid yet to bite, the number of practising solicitors in the…
The long-trailed 2014 budget yesterday (19 March) brought few surprises to the legal business community, although nonetheless some disappointment, as…
At Friday’s ‘Grayling Day’ demonstration in London, chairman of the Criminal Bar Association Nigel Lithman QC told the audience that…