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Firms back future champions of social justice

Regional heavyweights partner with host organisations to enhance social welfare law

LiP slapped with £100k costs bill for 'farrago of nonsense' application

Case highlights the difficulties encountered by the judiciary when dealing with the 'chaos' created by litigants in person

Small businesses are being 'priced out of court'

The government's court fee hike begins to bite with 50 per cent drop in value and number of CCJs

Jackson's legacy on the insurance market

Today's ATE policies are now gold medal standard, helping clients properly resource and budget their cases, argues Steve Jones

Act now to stop fraudulent PI claims

To underline that intention, in 2014 the coalition government published the Nuisance Calls Action Plan, alongside which the former justice secretary Chris Grayling unveiled plans to impose fines of hundreds of thousands of pounds on claims management companies (CMCs) engaging in unsolicited calls and texts and other 'bad practices'.

Public Interest Lawyers' legal aid contract scrapped

Legal aid not designed to fund 'spurious cases' against our 'brave armed forces,' says Lord Chancellor

Unreasonable changes?

Georgia Francis considers the costs and consequences of fund switching in personal injury claims

Weathering the personal injury storm

The Jackson reforms and the deregulation of the legal services market have had a resounding impact, but personal injury firms in the North West are adapting by increasing paralegal recruitment and hiring qualified solicitors in niche areas, writes Mary Nowell