Legal bodies campaigning to stop social security benefits being clawed back from accident victims are hoping to see their efforts pay off later this year. Social Security Minister Roger Evans is expected to propose new legislation to change the clawback system this autumn, following years of campaigning by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil), […]

A newly-elected Bar Council member is calling for the creation of a bar defence association to help barristers deal with complaints against them. Marc Beaumont, head of Harrow on the Hill Chambers, has accused the Bar Council of failing to support barristers in their times of greatest need. As a result, he said, barristers who […]

London solicitor Allen Chubb, who hit the headlines in March this year when he was convicted of assaulting a woman at his Belgravia offices, is to face a hearing by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. The Solicitors Complaints Bureau is referring the case to the tribunal, whose powers range from a reprimand to striking someone off […]

Lovell White Durrant has scooped a £1 million contract to advise the Government on the estimated £4 billion sell-off of the Department of Social Security’s national property estate. Lovells won a beauty parade involving at least six other law firms, rumoured to have included Linklaters & Paines, Norton Rose and Nabarro Nathanson. The sell-off, code-named […]