The Legal Services Board’s (LSB) binding directions against the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), following claims of regulatory failings in its intervention into the collapse of Axiom Ince, has been welcomed by the Law Society of England and Wales.

The Law Society of England and Wales has supported the government’s decision to make four Nightingale courts permanent, with President Mark Evans describing the move as “sensible” in light of the “appalling backlogs in our courts”. 

Eleven interns have started their six-week paid internship at the Law Society of England and Wales, as it continues to participate in the #10000BlackInterns initiative. 

The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed the Bar Council’s review into bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar, commending “the leadership of the Rt Hon. the Baroness Harriet Harman KC and the review team for their thorough and thoughtful work”.

The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed changes proposed in the new Sentencing Bill, which had its second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday 16 September. 

The Law Society welcomed the opening of a ‘super courtroom’ in Loughborough last week.

The Law Society of England and Wales has embraced the UK’s adoption of the new Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer. This is a milestone in the legal world globally as it signifies the first international treaty with a focus on the safety of lawyers, which was adopted by the Council of Europe in response to increasing reports of attacks on the legal profession.

Following criticism from solicitors and the justice secretary, the Law Society has withdrawn its guidance to solicitors on how to legally prepare wills so that they obey Sharia succession rules.

The University of Law has been sold to Global University Systems by Montagu Private Equity, less than three years since it was first purchased.

On a recent visit to the Supreme Court, law students from GSM London had the opportunity to meet Lady Hale, deputy president of the Supreme Court.

The Legal Professions Wellbeing Taskforce has determined that all legal professionals should be made more aware of the need for emotional competency, with a particular emphasis on training law students in this regard.

Law students have launched a petition demanding that the government includes the Legal Practice Course among programs eligible for its postgraduate loans. 

In a competition run by Aston University and the Next 100 Years project, three students from the university won prizes of £2,500 and £1,250.

The limited information published about the recent Solicitors Qualifying Exam stage one pilot means that it is “impossible” to tell whether the new ‘super exam’ will work as intended, the Association of Law Teachers has warned.

A team from the University of Law's Manchester centre has won the fourth annual DAC Beachcroft Mooting Shield.

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The University of Law is set to deliver the Legal Practice Course and LLM Legal Practice at the University of Southampton from September 2022.

The University of Law is set to establish a presence in Scotland for the first time with the purchase of Central Law Training Scotland from Wilmington Plc.

The University of Law has announced that it will be running the Bar Professional Training Course at its Leeds centre from September 2016.

The University of Law has agreed to take over the Legal Practice Course at Oxford Brookes University for 2013-14, following Oxford Brookes' controversial decision to end its LPC programme at the end of this academic year.