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Legal profession must improve on only one in four partners being a woman

Law firms to learn diversity from most improved FTSE 100 companies

60-second interview: Christopher Page

Following the merger between Charles Russell and Speechly Bircham, Christopher Page, Charles Russell Speechlys' senior partner, tells PCA that a like-minded cultural base is crucial to any successful merger

CPS' handling of fatal RTAs deemed poor

Specialist prosecutor role recommended but government cuts remain an obstacle

MPs release damning report into Ministry of Justice's legal aid cuts

PAC: MoJ does not know if cuts to civil legal aid budget represent value for money

Successful CPS prosecutions are designed for the 'model victim'

Starmer QC: "Victims are playing catch up in the criminal justice system"

Strasbourg rules UK whole-life sentence is not incompatible with human rights

Triple murderer challenged sentence as inhuman and degrading, Catherine Baksi reports

Supreme Court to hear appeal from mother forced to move 50 miles from family

Lawyers say court guidance needed to prevent councils from engaging in mass social cleansing of the poor

MoD faces whistleblowing claim from doctor sacked by text

Ministry of Defence fails to get claim struck out on a 'technicality'