Andrew Williams, a director of Essex firm Lillywhite Williams, was wrongly intervened into last October without notice.

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Only a third of in-house legal teams cite the application of legal or technical expertise as adding the most value to divestments.

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Reform of the 1804 ‘Code civil’ was announced by justice minister Christiane Taubira pictured in February this year.

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The Consumer Rights Act gives competition tribunal the power to hear opt-out collective action.

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Prison inmates contribute to a 13 metre-long embroidery forming part of the British Library’s Magna Carta exhibition.

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All change at the Ministry of Justice since the general election.

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Solicitors Regulation Authority has withdrawn as signatory from voluntary code of good practice in the recruitment of trainee solicitors.

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Hartlepool criminal lawyer Alison Banks has been elected solicitor member vice-president of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

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Paul Stevens is new chief executive.

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Desmond Rosario was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

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