Multi-million pound drug smuggler is jailed for 30 years 05 March 2012 A man who is believed to be responsible for smuggling hundreds of millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK was jailed for 30 years on Friday 2 March, following an investigation by UKBA and Customs & Excise officers. Adegboyega Adeniji, aged […]

90% of interpreters boycott new ‘flawed’ court system   A survey, commissioned by the campaign group Interpreters for Justice, states that 90% of 1,206 interpreters who took part in the online survey have not and will not register for the new system administered by Applied Language Solutions (ALS). Members of the Association of Police and […]

  The  new list of Queen’s Counsel appointments for the 2011-2012 year period has now been published. The 88 appointed this year included: 23 women applicants (58% of the 40 who applied). In the competition in 2010-11, 27 women (66% of the 41 who applied) were appointed. 6 applicants who declared an ethnic origin other […]

Press Release     The proceedings in relation to Charles Spiropoulos at the Southwark Crown Court have not at the time of writing concluded. We are aware of a report aired on Sky News and repeated by a number of other news agencies today in relation to these proceedings. It is not considered appropriate that […]

Wednesday 29 February 2012 The Law Society has today warned that further restrictions on businesses bringing non-EU skilled migrant workers into the UK could stall recovery when economic conditions improve. Law firms need maximum flexibility to be able to recruit quickly when the need arises, it said. The Society said it agreed with the proposal […]