The Law Gazette Lawyers sitting up for the count in the 2020 general election will be spared the ritual of explaining why it is always the acting returning officer who announces the number of votes cast, if proposals published by the Law Commission today become reality. In a wide-ranging call for rationalisation of electoral law,…
The Law Gazette The High Court has rejected a professional negligence claim from an injured pedestrian who felt her legal team had under-settled her case. The Honourable Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing (pictured) said Yorkshire firm W Brook and Co, and the instructed barrister named as Mr Crossley, did not breach their professional duties in advising…
The Independent Judge Wendy Joseph QC says schools and policymakers should do more to make judiciary more diverse Schools and policymakers have a responsibility to address the lack of diversity in the judiciary to better reflect society as a whole, a top judge has said. The UK’s “white, middle-class, middle-aged, male” courtrooms do not represent the…
