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Leverage ERM to ensure everyone at your firm owns and manages risk

By Louise Fleming, Partner, Aretai Consulting

CPS North East failing to get cases in magistrates' courts to trial

HMCPSI concludes the area faces considerable challenges, against a backdrop of reducing resources, if it is to reverse the decline in performance

Supreme Court dismisses QASA appeal to protect the public

Disappointed criminal barristers make new law but ultimately lose out in decision over quality scheme for advocacy

Citizens Advice agrees with Gove that victims should be empowered in courts

Charity applauds Gove's initiatives to make justice system victim and witness responsive

Blacklists - what do they achieve?

Given the implications which will inevitably arise from being included in a blacklist of any sort, you might expect a body with the stature of...

Gove's speech is a 'whitewash' of government failures

Criminal Law Solicitors' Association highly critical of Lord Chancellor's maiden speech while Bar Council laps up Michael Gove's praise for the independent Bar

If Gove gets his way the public will have to rely on the kindness of lawyers

The Lord Chancellor has astutely turned the tables on the public debate over legal aid

Taking a pickaxe to the glass ceiling

We all need to alter our mindsets and take action if opportunities for women in businesses are going to improve, argues Donna O'Neill