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LAA committed to 11 January start for new legal aid contracts

Gove hints at scrapping criminal courts charge

Web snooping plans lack protection for lawyers

Speed camera blitz to raise money is illegal, police told

Attorney-general: draft Investigatory Powers Bill will set new standards for openness and transparency

Labour to set up legal aid commission

£85 parking fine was reasonable, rules Supreme Court

LAA faces two-pronged attack over legal aid contracts

Fishing rod used to smuggle McDonald's over prison wall

Super-regulator concerned over ABS authorisation rule change

Judges 'laugh along at sexist innuendo’

Judges get right to veto anti-terror operations

Supreme Court justice brands gender quotas 'corrosive’

Effect of inadmissible evidence

Innocent defendants consider guilty plea to reduce legal bill – report

Court costs 'hurt the innocent’

New York may relax foreign lawyer rules

Fraud vitiates divorce consent order

Outrage over Legal Aid Agency’s 'divide and rule’ tactics

EU accession to ECHR back on

Firm puts barristers in website shop window

Judges will get veto in attempt to salvage snooper’s charter

Lawyers not in favour of quotas, survey finds

MoJ backs down over prison photos after legal threat

Bar regulator warned against excluding students with 2:2s

Solicitor struck off for aiding £4.3m investment fraud

Double-booked barristers 'let down defendants’, says solicitors’ chief

FoI misused by media, Tory claims

Women 'under-represented’ in legal world, Society says as 33% target released

Consolidator ready to acquire firms armed with £4m war chest

City funding gap plans a 'work in progress’

Judge exposes 'abysmal' LiP to show challenges faced by courts

Labour infighting could scupper terror bill

Runaway husband faces jail over multi-million pound divorce

Rape victim denied compensation by new court fees

Weird cases: under the influence in court

Barrister convicted of forgery disbarred

UK firms asked to do more work for free

LAA threatens to enlist contract winners for legal aid court battles

Ofcom director appointed LSB chief executive

Joint enterprise review 'long overdue’, lawyers argue

MP: courts charge stops guilty 'working the system’

Solicitor-advocates step up challenge with referral site

Further gender pay transparency measures announced

£20m fines for corporate manslaughter

Convicted solicitor struck off despite 7/7 trauma plea

Murderer seeks anonymity to start new life

Confessions of a Barrister: inside the secret world of the Bar

Rich barristers find crime really doesn’t pay

Bar 2015: Gove will need to defy backbenchers on prison reform

Bar 2015: criminal advocacy revamp a 'turning point’

City firms to meet MoJ over plans to plug funding gap