Press releases

Leading conveyancing organisations are working together as the Conveyancing Task Force to discuss reform of the conveyancing process for the benefit of consumers and lawyers.

The minimum salary for trainee solicitors we recommende has risen by 1.1% to £20,217 outside London and £22,794 in the capital.

Urgent action is needed to prevent tens of thousands of property market transactions collapsing at the cliff-edge end of the stamp duty holiday.

Marriage laws are creaking with age and are in need of urgent modernisation, we said in our response to the Law Commission’s review of marriage ahead of Valentine’s Day.

We've warned that an injection of cash is urgently needed to halt the terminal decline in the number of criminal defence firms.

We've joined the #10000BlackInterns initiative and and we encourage law firms and legal businesses to do the same.

We're cautious about a bid to ease the backlog of housing cases heading for court through a mediation pilot.

We've called on the LSB to concentrate on the sector’s recovery in our response to its draft 2021-2022 strategy and business plan.

Continued collaboration between the Welsh and UK governments will be essential for the future success of Welsh justice, the Law Society of England and Wales said today.

We're calling on the UK government to protect leaseholders from the costs of making their homes safe from potentially deadly cladding.