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Linden Thomas, President of Birmingham Law Society, discusses three new initiatives to address gender inequality at the most senior levels of the law.
After lobbying by the Law Society the Ministry of Justice will bring forward areas of work for implementation under the Criminal Legal Aid Review.
The Financial Conduct Authority's deadline for making a claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance is coming up on 29 August 2019.
Solicitors' leaders today made an urgent plea to incoming prime minister to put the criminal justice system at the heart of the priorities of his administration.
The government has published an evaluation framework for the upcoming flexible operating hours pilots, which are due to begin on 2 September 2019.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is conducting a Criminal Legal Aid Review to consider the future of the criminal legal aid fee schemes.
Your weekly update from the Law Society's public affairs team on all the latest developments and debates in Parliament and across Whitehall.
We have welcomed a parliamentary working group's recommendation that property agencies should be regulated.
The 2019 edition of the Law Society Conveyancing Protocol is out, with details on best practice in residential conveyancing transactions.
Turkish citizens are resorting in vain to the European Court of Human Rights in ever greater numbers as trust in their domestic courts erodes.
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