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Google Settlement puts Litigation Funding on Show
Check out the Primary Source!: https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/16737724-professor-barry-rodger A Quick Background: A group of UK app developers sued Google, arguing that it had too much control over how Android apps are sold and distributed. They claimed Google effectively forced developers to use…
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Northern Pupillage Fair on Course for Record Turnout as Interest in the Bar Grows
Northern Pupillage Fair – Date: Saturday, September 5, 2026 @ 10:00 AM – 3:00 PMLocation: The Liner Hotel, Liverpool – Tickets are free: Available at Speed Mooting With more than 800 candidates already registered and attendance on track to surpass last year’s…
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Barrister Fined Over Rude Client Complaint Emails
Check out the primary source! https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/disciplinary_finding/183734.html The Bar has issued another small but useful reminder: rudeness is not an advocacy style when the audience is your own client. A disciplinary tribunal has fined barrister Timothy Becker after finding that emails he…
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Gross Negligence Finding Still Follows Solicitor after $2.2m Client Loss
Check out the primary source! https://solicitorstribunal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/12914.2026.Appahoh.pdf Professional restrictions have a long memory, especially when client money has gone wandering. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has refused to lift conditions on Queen Appahoh’s practising certificate after finding that the risks which justified them…
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Credit hire ADR scheme targets county court claims
Background: The General Terms of Agreement (GTA) is the long-running voluntary framework that governs much of the relationship between insurers and credit hire organisations in the UK. Developed from industry agreements that emerged in the 1990s and evolved over successive…
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Knife surrender drive removes 15,000 weapons
The law is often most visible after a serious crime has been committed. Prevention, by contrast, tends to attract less attention, even though it can be just as important. The Home Office says knife-related homicides have fallen to their lowest…
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Solicitor sentenced over fake police Nandos CCTV request
A Cheshire solicitor has avoided immediate custody after impersonating a police officer to obtain CCTV footage from Nando’s. Conor Johnstone, a director at MAJ Law in Warrington, was given a 12-month community order, ordered to complete 260 hours of unpaid…
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Solicitor struck off over alarming Email and Stalking
Check out the primary source: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/160042/ The solicitor’s roll is not a cloakroom where reputation can be left while conduct gets into trouble outside. A non-practising solicitor, Adrian Robert Berkeley, has been struck off after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found…
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Google Settlement puts Litigation Funding on Show
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Northern Pupillage Fair on Course for Record Turnout as Interest in the Bar Grows
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Barrister Fined Over Rude Client Complaint Emails
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Gross Negligence Finding Still Follows Solicitor after $2.2m Client Loss
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Credit hire ADR scheme targets county court claims
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