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The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced how it intends to work with the profession to eliminate unfair treatment of women barristers. This will include: reviewing how the BSB's approach to supervision and enforcement can take account of equality and diversity best practice; measuring the overall

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The UK government is planning to strengthen its position on Brexit through a series of appointments to the House of Lords, The Guardian reports. Around 10 Conservative peers will join the chamber, as well as three Labour peers and either one or two Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peers, sources told

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Pictured (l-r): Marina Keane and Leona McMahon Michael Houlihan & Partners (MHP) has announced the appointment of two new associate partners, Marina Keane and Leona McMahon.

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The House of Lords has today appointed an ad hoc select committee to consider and report on the Bribery Act 2010. The committee will be taking evidence throughout the summer and autumn, and will be reporting in 2019. The Bribery Act 2010 created two basic crimes of giving and receiving bribes, and c

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it lost unencrypted DVDs containing recordings of police interviews. The DVDs contained recordings of interviews with 15 victims of child sex abuse, to be used at the trial.

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