The new legal ombudsman service will open on 6 October 2010, chief ombudsman Adam Sampson has said.
The new service, set up by the Office for Legal Complaints and based in Birmingham, will replace the Legal Complaints Service based in Leamington Spa.
The Scottish Parliament has passed amendments to the Legal Services (Scotland) Bill which will see a regulation body set up to control non-lawyer will writers.
Holyrood intends the move to provide consumers with the same protection from rogue will writers as they would get from using a solicitor.
The government has shot down the CBI's demands for limits on the right to strike.
In a report christened Making Britain the Place to Work, published yesterday, the business group called for tougher rules on industrial action to be introduced.
As well as limiting the 90-day consultation period for redundancies to 30 days, the CBI said it wants to see ballots held to determine what proportion of a workforce are union members.
The Supreme Court is to rule on the extent to which council workers who become the employees of private companies when services are outsourced are protected by TUPE.
Public sector union UNISON was granted leave to appeal yesterday against the Court of Appeal’s unanimous ruling in Parkwood Leisure v Alemo-Herron and others [2010] EWCA Civ 24.
Seriousness must be central to a claim for libel, the High Court has ruled.
Grappling with patchwork precedent on the issue, Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that the claimed defamation was too trifling that it could not warrant pursuit.
