David Heath was unknown to Obiter ahead of Tuesday’s launch of the Legal Services Consumer Panel report on access to justice.

Judges in England and Wales now have access to large-language model artificial intelligence software on their personal computers, the HM Courts and Tribunals Judiciary revealed today. The availability ...

Solicitor Paul Melling is hanging up his samovar.

The report outlines various strategies for monitoring the legal profession, including assessments of how firms, particularly COLPs, are structuring training for their teams and overseeing their ...

This matters, because if funders can only be paid out of unclaimed damages there is an obvious risk that there may not be enough left in the pot for the funder to get paid. Funders will not want to ...

Veronica, who has died aged 65, was 'a force to be reckoned with [...] full of compassion and empathy towards others'.

Judge, who was sitting as a magistrate at the time, was 'motivated by a desire to ensure that the hearing went ahead'.

An appeal against an order of costs against a former client of defamation firm Schillings International has been dismissed after the High Court found the judge’s approach could not be faulted.

London firm Leigh Day has announced the appointment of 12 new partners, including eight women. They are all based in London ...

Beale & Co has promoted disputes lawyer Michael O’Brien to partner in the firm’s construction, engineering and infrastructure team. O’Brien joined Beale & Co’s London office in 2017. He has advised on ...

One of the last remaining listed law firms has more than doubled its borrowing ahead of an expansion push, the stock market ...

The Law Society is seeking a 1.9% rise in its share of the annual practising certificate fee.