As SJ puts the finishing touches to next week’s pro bono special, Jean-Yves Gilg and Rebecca Hilsenrath kick us off with a warning to the coalition: blur the boundaries of legal aid and pro bono at your peril
Tributes have been paid to David Burgess, one of the UK's leading immigration solicitors, who was allegedly pushed under a train at King's Cross station earlier this week.
Property lawyers have welcomed the idea of a new accreditation scheme for conveyancers but some are already doubting whether a scheme intended to raise professional standards and help the profession fight off new entrants will have any effect in practice.
Claiming City rates for personal injury work contributes to keeping the cost of litigation at an unjustifiably high level and should be capped by the courts, argue Mark Ashley and Carina Patterson; but Fraser Whitehead disagrees and suggests instead a move away from the concept of City rates