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SRA unveils 'passport to practice' for global firms

The SRA is proposing to sweep away the old system of registering foreign offices of City-based global firms and bring in a single 'international passport to practice'.

Supreme Court patent ruling 'brings UK closer to Europe'

A ruling by the Supreme Court on the validity of a patent protecting a gene sequence used in a new drug aimed at tackling the auto-immune disease lupus has brought UK laws closer to those used by other states in European Patent Convention.

How will the market changes impact upon the values and behaviours of this year's trainees?

By Michael Shaw, Managing Partner, Cobbetts

Sole practitioners and barristers most at risk from naming and shaming, France says

The impact of LeO's new policy of publishing the names of individual lawyers and firms could be particularly serious for sole practitioners and barristers, Liz France, chair of the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC), has said.

Co-op will recruit 'large numbers' of family solicitors

New service will target clients earning between £15,000 and £40,000

Supreme Court backs common sense in contracts

Ruling will allow courts to 'ignore chunk of original wording'

Legal aid cuts will reduce family solicitors, Norgrove warns

Supply of 'properly qualified' lawyers 'vital to the protection of children'

Commercial property update

Magnus Hassett, James Noble and Amy France consider break clauses and vacant possession, uncompleted leases, superior landlord's consent and occupiers' liability