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'Remain vigilant on judicial independence', LCJ tells judges

Lord Judge calls for 'meticulous' approach in final Mansion House speech

Protecting lessees against market losses

Buildings insurance only covers rebuilding costs, not market value; but what if a building cannot be rebuilt and leaves the lessee with a huge shortfall,...

Balva was third biggest indemnity insurer

Law Society includes unrated insurers in guide but gives warnings

Divide and rule

So, the justice secretary likes solicitors and is fed up with barristers. Chris Grayling's appearance at this morning's justice select committee could not have gone...

Grayling sides with solicitors and attacks barristers on criminal legal aid

Fresh consultation to be launched in September after 'detailed talks' with Law Society

Editor's blog | The predictable LETR paradox

There is a strange but perhaps predictable paradox at the heart of the Legal Education and Training Review. It took two years to produce, and...

SRA and MoJ 'must get their heads together' on inducements

'Simply unacceptable' that higher standards imposed on CMCs than solicitors

Julian Webb: LETR changes are more than 'tweaks' to the system

Incremental change will equal more than the sum of its parts, including an overhaul of CPD and a focusing on outcomes-focused learning says Webb