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UK ethics institute sets up taskforce examining legal profession’s work for oligarchs and kleptocrats

By Monidipa Fouzder2021-01-29T07:23:00+00:00 The Ministry of Justice has named a wide-ranging panel of legal experts - including a former co-chair of the Law Society’s criminal law committee - to test and challenge the recommendations made by the independent review into criminal legal aid. The review, looking at the system in its entirety, is being led by competition lawyer and former judge Sir Christopher Bellamy. The Ministry of Justice said the panel, The panel includes: Tuckers managing partner Richard Atkinson, immediate past co-chair of the Society’s criminal law committee; Bi...

With many of us still reeling from the last surprises of 2020, what better time to consider what next year might bring? Some trends are becoming clearer. Here is an eclectic choice of three from among the developments rushing towards us. Jonathan Goldsmith First, unregulated providers of legal services are going to be brought into some kind of regulation. That is hardly rocket science. It was one of the recommendations of the reportover the summer by Professor Stephen Mayson into future regulation of the legal profession, and is now included in the recent Competition and Markets Authority (C...