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New court fee forces the innocent to plead guilty, magistrates claim

'Cab rank’: barristers allowed to refuse work from solicitors

Government 'selling justice like a commodity’ with fee rises

Bar takes aim at solicitors in family court advocacy

Costs should follow the result in judicial review proceedings

Action day 29: SRA warning prompts revised protocol

Streamline Forensic Reporting

Legal aid tender process reopens for two areas

Appeal court allows prisoner legal aid challenge

Action day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action

Action day 27: barristers officially join legal aid action

'Unlawful’ civil legal aid safety net scheme widened

Phone-tap immunity for MPs cannot go on, says top lawyer

Sexism holds women back at the Bar

Barrister fined for racist remarks

Sexism still rampant in the 'children’s playground’ of the bar

Police issue referral fee fraud warning

£85 parking ticket battle hits Supreme Court

Previous decisions on death penalty jurisdiction wrong

Conflict of interest guidelines for judge retirements

Judge is bumped off BA case after rant about lost luggage

Ashley Madison: the human cost of a cyber attack

Weird cases: when a judge knows the defendant

New criminal court fees may force the poor to plead guilty

Action day 22: legal aid practitioners rally in London

If judges and QCs are in the Garrick it sends out the wrong message

Gender equality at the bar 'will never be reached’

MoJ proposes new round of court fee rises

Supreme Court rejects human rights challenge to CFAs

Government dismisses legal aid extradition concerns

Police liable for failure to investigate serial rapist

Loophole allows criminals to keep lethal firearms used for killings

New protocol marks change of tactics in legal aid action

Updated Protocol Phase 2 The Crown Court

Gove meeting 'potentially constructive’

Legal aid cuts will 'leave parts of the UK without a lawyer’

Criminal Procedure Rules

Plebgate snooping of press approved in 40 minutes

Super-regulator proposes 'more discretionary’ approach to ABSs

HMRC plans prevention failure offence

Solicitor-advocates threatening family justice – bar

Foreign lawyers allowed to take transfer test abroad

Ministry fast-tracks FGM protection

McKenzie friends rebuff from bar

Chambers offers legal advice through 'video surgeries’

Gove gets to work on the courts and regulation

Snoopers’ Charter is wrong – rewrite it, judges tell ministers

Judicial sackings almost double in a year

National pay scales for coroners to end £70k variance

Firm 'lacked high standards of conduct’ in client transfer bid

News focus: legal aid boycott

Consultation on the proposed closure of courts in the London area