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All the latest top quality legal news and analysis for solicitors, barristers, trainees and aspiring lawyers.

A scheme to widen public access to documents put before the court will get under way on 1 January, the judiciary announc...
20/10/2025

A scheme to widen public access to documents put before the court will get under way on 1 January, the judiciary announced today:

Access to public domain documents pilot to begin on 1 January.

🏝️ Offshore jurisdictions are promoting themselves to companies and private clients on service, transparency and regulat...
20/10/2025

🏝️ Offshore jurisdictions are promoting themselves to companies and private clients on service, transparency and regulation – their ‘low/no tax’ regimes are no longer enough.

Eduardo Reyes reports ⬇️

Offshore jurisdictions are promoting themselves to companies and private clients on service, transparency and regulation - their 'low/no tax' regimes are no longer enough. Eduardo Reyes reports.

The failure to protect clients of SSB Law should lead to an overhaul of the regulatory framework and complaints-handling...
20/10/2025

The failure to protect clients of SSB Law should lead to an overhaul of the regulatory framework and complaints-handling procedures, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has said:

Regulatory framework 'does not prevent harm' and must be reformed, declares Legal Services Consumer Panel.

A lawyer in England and Wales has been allowed by the Court of Appeal to pursue a harassment claim against a firm in whi...
20/10/2025

A lawyer in England and Wales has been allowed by the Court of Appeal to pursue a harassment claim against a firm in which he formerly worked as a paralegal:

Registered foreign lawyer may bring case at common law even if particulars of claim do not spell that out, judges rule.

As more traditional investment sources dry up, litigation funders are seeking to tap the private credit market. But the ...
20/10/2025

As more traditional investment sources dry up, litigation funders are seeking to tap the private credit market. But the industry will have to adapt if such capital flows are to endure.

Rachel Rothwell reports:

As more traditional investment sources dry up, litigation funders are seeking to tap the private credit market. But the industry will have to adapt if such capital flows are to endure.

A magistrate and aspiring local politician has been issued with formal advice for misconduct after referring to his stat...
20/10/2025

A magistrate and aspiring local politician has been issued with formal advice for misconduct after referring to his status as a magistrate when standing as a candidate in a local election:

JCIO issues formal advice over promotional leaflet referring to judicial role.

A man convicted of an offence under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 for burning a Qur’an outside the Turkish cons...
20/10/2025

A man convicted of an offence under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 for burning a Qur’an outside the Turkish consulate has succeeded in his appeal against conviction:

Appeal of conviction over a one-man protest outside the Turkish consulate is allowed by judge and two magistrates.

A former CILEX president who has been embroiled in a long-running row with the representative body was told the organisa...
20/10/2025

A former CILEX president who has been embroiled in a long-running row with the representative body was told the organisation breached its data protection obligations when his request to see certain emails was refused, the Gazette has learned:

Representative body for legal executives accused of 'moving the goalposts' for refusing subject access request.

Carson McDowell’s excoriating verdict on the SRA’s handling of the SSB Law crisis describes multiple missed opportunitie...
20/10/2025

Carson McDowell’s excoriating verdict on the SRA’s handling of the SSB Law crisis describes multiple missed opportunities to protect vulnerable clients. Yet no one has been held formally accountable.

John Hyde and Paul Rogerson report:

Carson McDowell's excoriating verdict on the SRA's handling of the SSB Law crisis describes multiple missed opportunities to protect vulnerable clients. Yet no one has been held formally accountable.

Blogs: and Post-Mazur, we should think big, says the SSB scandal is worse than Axiom Ince - this time there’s no excu...
18/10/2025

Blogs: and Post-Mazur, we should think big, says the SSB scandal is worse than Axiom Ince - this time there’s no excuse, what the High Court’s Mazur ruling means for non-qualified staff, China 'spy' prosecution: perplexing questions, and what has done to get TA6 right

Missed our blogs this week? Here's our top five...

The latest edition of the TA6 property information form is only 20 pages long, less legalistic, contains more practical ...
17/10/2025

The latest edition of the TA6 property information form is only 20 pages long, less legalistic, contains more practical examples, is accompanied by clearer explanatory notes, and has been tested by sellers and conveyancers, the Law Society’s flagship property conference heard this week:

Working group members reveal scale of operation to get property information form right.

'It would be wrong to draw too many similarities between the reports into the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s handling...
17/10/2025

'It would be wrong to draw too many similarities between the reports into the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s handling of Axiom Ince a year ago and SSB Law this week.

In short, the latest assessment is so much worse', writes John Hyde:

A culture of complacency and arrogance has created this self-inflicted mess.

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