A law firm director has urged defence solicitors not to be tempted to take advantage of clients stranded by their firm's sudden closure. Alisha Butler, a solicitor with Liverpool firm Phoenix Legal, ...

The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law published interesting research late last week, trying to answer the question which European economies, including our own, are asking with greater desperation ...

The relationship between the rule of law and economic growth is more complex than widely assumed, new research suggests. A literature review, commissioned by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and ...

There is no requirement to break down the costs in every case where a litigation service has been provided, the High Court has ruled. The judge said there may be cases where an abuse is suspected, or ...

A solicitor convicted of stalking a legal blogger was today sentenced to a two-year community order - and ordered not to contact a ‘hobby journalist’ for seven years. Andrew Jonathan Milne, 63, ...

Solicitors mobilised outside parliament this morning to 'sound the alarm' over justice secretary David Lammy's controversial ...

The established system of ‘light touch’ oversight of the Solicitors Regulation Authority is no longer fit for purpose in the light of recent failures, the Law Society has argued. The Legal Services ...

The House of Commons speaker has asked the High Court to throw out a claim brought by the Charity Commission against the ...

Efficiency must never come at the expense of the constitutional principles that give that system its legitimacy.

Solicitors will march to parliament and lobby MPs ahead of first parliamentary debate on Courts and Tribunals Bill.

International firm Kennedys has been fined £18,000 after staff allowed its client account to be used as a banking facility.

Newly published civil justice statistics suggest the government is managing to speed up the resolution of claims going ...