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Following on with Lawyer Monthly’s series on law school and careers we talk money and fees. Below Francine Ryan, lecturer in law and member of the Open Justice team at the Open University, discusses several options for hiring legal aid, how lawyers generally operate, and what avenues of support are available to the public. Recent […]
MHA MacIntyre Hudson, the top 20 UK chartered accountancy and business advisory firm, is merging its City and North London offices to enhance its client offering and accommodate growth. The merged teams will operate from the firm’s existing New Bridge Street office, close to Blackfriars in the City of London. The North London team of […]
Barristers have warned that the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill’s approach to ‘bringing rights home’ is a recipe for confusion and puts the rights of UK citizens at risk. The Bill adopts EU law in to UK statute, but the legal status of a number of corresponding rights that come from treaties is still unclear and […]
In a case that has, for a decade, surpassed people’s understanding of European human rights and employment law, the tables have now turned. Last week the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that a Romanian man, Mr Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu, should not have been sacked for sending private messages on Yahoo messaging on his […]
New research has shown that nearly half of jurors in rape cases come to a guilty verdict before deliberation, indicating a predictive relationship between juror demographics, personal experience, and psychological make up – impacting upon verdicts in rape cases. The study, conducted by a researcher at the University of Huddersfield with legal guidance from Manchester […]
Nearly 800,000 immigrant kids who were once undocumented have been able to live in the US without constant fear of deportation because of DACA. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich explains what the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is.
Robin Allen QC, Chair of the Bar Council’s Equality and Diversity and Social Mobility Committee, said the recent publication of the Lammy Review was a major contribution to the important and urgent task of securing a fair and equal criminal justice system. He said: “The Lammy Report and all its recommendations require proper consideration. Criminal […]
It has been revealed that Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, has suffered a data breach where hackers had access to names, email addresses, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers and other sensitive information concerning 143 million of its customers. So where did it go wrong? Below are a […]
It’s now less than a month until the UK’s Criminal Finances Act comes into force on 30th September. This is a really significant piece of legislation which gives HMRC a global mandate to pursue the possible facilitation of tax evasion anywhere in the world should it involve a UK tax liability. As such, it will pull […]
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