Harrowells Solicitors has welcomed Charlotte Boyes as associate solicitor in its agricultural team. Boyes will be based at the firm's Pocklington office, assisting clients across East Yorkshire and ...

Optimal Solicitors has appointed Craig Fisher as personal injury fast-track team leader at its North West office. Fisher specialises in personal injury claims, with particular expertise in road ...

The process of formally winding up the PM Law network has begun amid reports that local police are looking into potential fraud at the collapsed Sheffield group. Liquidators have been appointed to a ...

MPs vote by a majority of 101 to let the Courts and Tribunals Bill move to the next stage in journey to become law.

The head of the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said the organisation will lean less on enforcement in the future as report numbers continue to rocket. Sarah Rapson, who became chief executive of ...

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 research, called The Rule of Law and the Institutional Roots of Economic Performance, was undertaken in association with the Law Society, which has a particular interest in it ...

An £8 million defamation claim against a high-profile tax commentator has become the first lawsuit to be defined by a judge as meeting the statutory definition of strategic litigation against public ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is ‘not a separate initiative but a continuation of the courts reform vision', the sector's oversight body has found. The endorsement appears in the final report of an ...

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, ...