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Welsh valleys merger

May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

South Wales firms Hughes Jenkins and Trevor Griffiths have merged to provide services throughout the South Wales valleys.

Nigel Jenkins, managing director of the newly merged firm, said: ‘Our two firms complement each other well and now enable the combined practice to offer a full and complete range of legal services to all our clients across South Wales.’

‘Poor-quality’ experts face cull

Experts whose evidence is ‘not up to scratch’ will be driven out of the family courts, in a new round of legal aid cuts announced by the Ministry of Justice.

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Traffic courts to be set up

May 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Dedicated traffic courts will be established to deal with low-level road traffic offences and free up the courts to deal with more ‘serious and contested’ cases, the government announced today.

The new courts follow a pilot in nine areas. The Ministry of Justice said it is in discussion with judges to determine how the courts can set up, and it expects the courts to be operational by April 2014.

The special traffic courts will only deal with guilty pleas or those where the case against a defendant is not contested.

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PI shake-up continues with two new takeovers

May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Contraction in the personal injury market has continued with the announcement of two new takeovers.

North-west firm Antony Hodari has completed the purchase of litigation specialist Tandem Law through its AVH Legal trading arm.

The acquisition was agreed with Tandem Law’s administrators Leonard Curtis. Under the deal, all 45 staff and management will be retained.

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Immigration bill prompts concern

May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Measures in the immigration bill announced in today’s Queen’s speech prompted strong reactions from specialist lawyers, welfare campaigners and business.

Nichola Carter, head of immigration at niche London firm Carter Thomas, described the proposals as ‘extremely worrying’.

Requiring landlords to become responsible for immigration control by checking the status of their tenants ‘risks exposing individuals to unlawful interference of their right to private life’, she said.

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Contempt jailings should never be secret, leading judges warn

May 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment

No one found guilty of contempt should be jailed in secret, two of the country’s most senior judges have declared in a strong stand for open justice.

The lord chief justice Lord Judge (pictured) and Sir James Munby, who is both head of the High Court’s Family Division and the Court of Protection, issued practice guidance today stating that people should ‘never’ be sent to prison without the public being told.

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