Legal services
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Law firms bounce back and lockdown leads to increase in productivity, report shows
91 per cent of South East firms surveyed have seen a recovery in income and a return to profit since the end of the first lockdown
An unjust justice system: The government needs to get real
Editor's note: Can substandard justice – whatever that looks like in practice – be justice at all?
‘Justice depends on government’: Peers publish damning report
The quality of justice is increasingly at risk and it’s the government’s fault, peers have concluded in a comprehensive report
Civil justice backlog: Peers call for urgent measures
Government must act urgently to address the case backlog in the family and civil courts, peers said in a new report
Considerably more legal aid funding needed, say peers
MoJ must invest much more to legal aid 'to meet the reality of need', say peers
Chinese sanctions on British lawyers soundly condemned
China has imposed sanctions on Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC and Essex Court Chambers in a ‘tit for tat’, after the UK imple
Separating parents: paid to mediate
A £500 grant will be available to 2,000 separating couples under a government voucher scheme to encourage them towards mediation. The scheme will not
Working towards the future
Julian Hawkhead reflects on how changing lawyers' ways of working will shape the firm's plans
Questions over access to civil justice
The number of civil legal help cases has dropped by two thirds since LASPO's introduction, according to the MoJ
