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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has stated that solicitors will need to pay an increase of 7% on practising fees to finance a £10 million hike in its annual budget.

UK judges will now use preferred pronouns as a “common courtesy” in cases that involve transgender people.

Chief executive of the Legal Services Board (LSB), Matthew Hill, talked about diversity during a plenary session at the Law Society’s Junior Solicitors Network summit, stating that diversity at partnership level at the biggest law firms “ought to be a national scandal”.

A woman who alleges that she was raped and sexually assaulted by her ex-husband has been left alone in court without legal representation or support to face her alleged abuser, in another distressing example of the crisis in the justice system caused by cuts to legal aid funding.  

The government has given ground to striking barristers with an offer of £15 million to address the crisis in the criminal justice system.

Law centres have been granted permission to challenge the Ministry of Justice in the High Court over changes to housing possession court duty schemes, which provide on-the-day advice and advocacy services to people facing eviction.

The vast majority of barristers are opposed to withdrawing the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of creating a separate UK bill of rights, a survey commissioned by the Times has found.

The Law Society has conducted its most comprehensive ever study into the legal services market, presenting a detailed analysis of the global and UK legal markets.

As National Apprenticeship Week 2018 launches, Browne Jacobson – one of the profession’s earliest adopters of legal apprenticeships – has announced plans to add to its stable of apprenticeship programmes. Over 100 new positions will be offered across the firm’s various offices in two new schemes, with a commitment to invest 100% of its apprenticeship levy into the new programmes.

The flurry of riot-related prosecutions following violent disorder across parts of the UK in recent weeks will cause further delays in other cases, the head of the criminal justice inspectorate has warned.

The senior presiding judge for England and Wales, Lord Justice Edis, has delayed the sentencing of convicted criminals on bail due to overpopulation in prisons. As a longer term solution, the government plans to send prisoners overseas and build more prisons.

The UK government is due to announce millions in extra funding for lawyers to represent asylum seekers in order to clear a backlog of appeals.

Plans to stop McKenzie Friends from being able to recover fees from members of the public following successful court action have received the support of the Law Society and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

Reed Smith and Mayer Brown joined Aspiring Solicitors at an event discussing how to increase awareness and understanding of disabilities in the legal profession earlier this month.

Stronger Together is a network designed to “promote racial diversity, inclusion and equality” in Leeds’ professional services sector, while identifying ways to create a more diverse and inclusive sector in the city.

Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance has introduced a "CV blind policy" in the final recruitment stage of its trainee selection process.

Working class students face disproportionate barriers at university and are dropping out without graduating in increasing numbers, while universities are not doing enough to provide support, new research has revealed.

The new attorney general has sparked fears that the government will try to reduce the independence of the judiciary after criticising “unelected, unaccountable” judges in an article published before her appointment.