Millicent Grant, president of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx), has won this year’s Black Solicitors Network (BSN) Lawyer of the Year accolade at the UK Diversity Legal Awards.

The prestigious LawWorks and Attorney General Student Awards has opened for nominations.

The backlog at crown courts in England and Wales has hit a new high of 64,015 unresolved cases, according to data published last week by HM Courts and Tribunals Services. 

Students are urged to ensure that they don’t miss the chance to vote in the general election on 7 May 2015.

A leading academic has joined the chorus of criticism directed at the proposed new Solicitors Qualifying Examination, saying that it is “too good to be true”.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced that it will trial running the first part of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) – SQE1 – in Welsh.  

It’s been a busy start to 2023 for me, which is why I’ve been very quiet over on my socials… I’m thrilled to announce that earlier in January, I moved from Freeths LLP’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) team onto its legal assistant programme.

British FTSE 350 businesses expect the law firms they instruct to have gender diverse partnerships, but have a shocking lack of women in their own senior leadership teams, new research reveals.

The government has opposed calls from lawyers in the House of Lords to scale back the powers of the Legal Services Board, claiming instead that the current system is fit for purpose.

Barbara Mills KC has been elected as vice chair of the Bar Council 2024. 

BPP University Law School’s first ever Advocate of the Year contest has been won by a law student from the University of Bristol. 

Axiom Ince has been shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following allegations of financial misappropriation – a closure that could end up being the most expensive SRA intervention in history.

Employment tribunal backlogs are continuing to spiral at an alarming rate, according to new figures, with the number of open cases hitting 491,000 at the end of March 2025 – up 11% from March 2023 (444,000).

Oxford Brookes School of Law and The College of Legal Practice have joined forces to offer the law school’s students discounted access to Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) preparation courses, as well as appropriate guidance and information on the new route to qualifying.

New measures to improve the quality of advocacy in youth courts have been announced by the Bar Standards Board.

Partners at CMS UK, Nabarro and Olswang have voted in favour of a proposal to combine the three firms, creating the sixth largest firm in the world (by number of lawyers) and in the United Kingdom (by revenue). The merger goes live on 1 May 2017.

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland plan to withdraw their services from all legally aided crown court cases between 6 and 31 January.

The chair of Parliament’s justice select committee has called for fee-charging McKenzie Friends to be banned after the High Court ruled that an unqualified “legal adviser” was negligent in his handling of a clinical negligence case.

Our busy family department is now looking to recruit for the next generation of lawyers committed to a career in family law. We have two vacancies for family law caseworkers.