Month: January 2021

This post was originally published on this siteWith what feels like the 10th lockdown in the past year, the same old challenges have arisen. How can your firm work from home efficiently, how can your firm go paperless to enable home working and how do you ensure compliance and security while everyone is at home? […]

This post was originally published on this siteHMCTS has embarked on an ambitious reform programme that has undeniably instigated significant progress in the modernisation of the criminal justice system. The post Innovating an outdated criminal justice system appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteAn assistant solicitor who had a panic attack after missing a hearing and tried to destroy evidence that she had been notified about it has avoided being struck off. The post Solicitor who hid evidence of error “didn’t know what she was doing” appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteThe president of the Family Division has told judges and lawyers to stop the increasing practice of holding virtual hearings outside of normal court hours, citing wellbeing concerns. The post McFarlane tells family judges to curb out-of-hours hearings appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteThe housing minister has written to local authorities whose delays in returning searches are putting conveyancers under pressure ahead of the stamp duty holiday deadline on 31 March. The post Minister urges councils to speed up searches amid conveyancing rush appeared first on Legal Futures.

This post was originally published on this siteThe immediate past chair of the Bar Council has welcomed work by the CPS to ensure greater gender parity in its instructions but said female fraud barristers are “a long way from parity”. The post Pinto: Gender parity a long way off in fraud work appeared first on […]