Wednesday 6th August 2014
Posted By: James
Recruitment manager Jennifer Newman has won nearly £30,000 in damages after being subjected to a campaign of sexual harassment and then being sacked from her position at Hydro Cleansing.
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Wednesday 6th August 2014
Posted By: James
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is warning barristers and solicitors they face fines as high as £500,000 if they put their clients' data at risk, following a number of recent data-protection errors in the legal profession. I
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Tuesday 5th August 2014
Posted By: James
Data produced by Wilkins Kennedy shows the number of mergers in the legal sector has jumped by nearly two thirds in the past year, with more than three times as many recorded in 2013 than in 2009.
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Tuesday 5th August 2014
Posted By: James
The growing number of law students in the UK has resulted in increasingly tough competition for places amongst graduates. Around 17,500 graduates will be chasing 4,500 training contracts at law firms and 300 pupillages in barristers’ chambers this year.
Read MoreMonday 4th August 2014
Posted By: James
Ralph Blackburn reports on warnings from the legal profession that the traditionally close relationship between solicitors and barristers may be coming to an end. Legal aid cuts have led to a loss of work for barristers, says Mr Blackburn, who cites Middlesbrough-based barrister Collette Price who suggests public access work is driving down fees as it allows barristers to bypass solicitors to gain clients. “Direct access to barristers is completely new and becoming more and more common,"
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