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Travers Smith bolsters Asset Management offering with strategic Funds partner hire

Travers Smith LLP has bolstered its Asset Management client offering with the hire of Tosin Adeyeri as a partner in the Funds group, further strengthening its expertise in private funds formation and secondaries work

Court of Appeal overturns High Court ruling on Dartmoor camping

Dartmoor National Park Authority has won an appeal against a High Court ruling which held that members of the public were not permitted to wild camp on the moor without the permission of the landowner

FCA wins High Court battle against Ponzi-like care home investment scheme

The High Court has ruled in favour of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) against Robin Forster, the director of a company which took £57 million from 380 investors in an illegal care home investment scheme

Judges look back on a year of broadcasting Crown Court sentencing remarks

His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft, the Recorder of London, and Mrs Justice Cheema Grubb speak about their experiences after a year of televised sentencing remarks in the Crown Court

UK sanctions six Russians over trial of dual British national

The sanctions target judges and prosecutors responsible for the trial of Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces 25 years in a penal colony after an appeal was rejected

Free legal advice for people at risk of losing their homes

The government has launched a scheme to provide free legal advice to people facing eviction or repossession

SRA shuts down three immigration firms

Law firms investigated by the Daily Mail for allegedly cheating the immigration system have been closed down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

AG meets prosecutors who secured convictions for honour crime and forced marriage

In a meeting with Attorney General Victoria Prentis, prosecutors at CPS Thames and Chiltern explained how they achieved justice for victims of 'honour' crimes and forced marriages