Legal News

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• Legal Executive of the Year
  Enter for the Legal Executive of the Year at the Law Society's Excellence Awards
• First Legal Executive Judge
  Ian Ashley-Smith from Heringtons Solicitors in Eastbourne is the first Legal Executive to be appointed a Judge.
• Legal issues on Radio 4
  Topical legal issues on legal aid and will writers have been making the airwaves at Radio 4
• Report on the future of Trust and Estate practice is published
  A report into the future of the UK Trust and Estate practice has found that solicitors feel optimistic about the advent of Alternative Business Structures, but concerned about the effects of regulation within the sector.
• New family fee schemes training
  The legal services commission are providing training on the new family fee schemes set to be introduced in October.
• SRA publishes report into disproportionality
  The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published a report into regulatory actions raised against Black and Minority Ethnic Solicitors
• Small firms will survive in the face of ABSs
  The Law Society has reported that small law firms are likely to withstand the competition of Alternative Business Structures
• MoJ launches reform priorities
  The government have set out their top 5 priorities for the Ministry of Justice
• Government plans to review defamation law
  The government have announced plans to review defamation law in a bid to protect freedom of speech.
• Cutbacks for legal aid
  The Guardian reports that government plans to end their legal aid training scheme is likely to dispraportionately affect lawyers from underprivileged backgrounds.