A rule change which is part of a wider crackdown on legal costs will all but abolish the success fees charged by lawyers mounting libel cases against media groups

Lawyers are earning "success fees" totalling £66 million a year for helping patients to sue the NHS, new figures have revealed.

Did you see that lawyers are earning £800 an hour from the National Health Service and taking “indefensible” fees of tens of millions of pounds in legal disputes. The money is coming from a government scheme intended to compensate patients for medical blunders and inadequate care, an investigation has found. The compensation lawyers are claiming costs and “success fees&...

Here's the thing on lawyers which you won't remember that this blogger threatened to post.  It arose from an ongoing discussion over this way - hope you like it. The first in the series was called "small government".  This is the second. In a nutshell, we alter the whole paradigm in law.  All current lawyers either join the circuit of travelling magistrates [or indeed fixe...

The World Economic Forum now ranks Sweden as the second-most competitive economy on earth, behind only Switzerland. According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom (compiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation), Sweden offers greater business freedom, trade freedom, monetary freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom, freedom from corruption,

Czech non-governmental think-tank eStat.cz has an ambition to repeat the success of Irish group Libertas, who significantly contributed to the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in an Irish referendum. Lawyers of eStat have studied the draft European Union treaty and compiled a list of institutional changes the document would bring to the member states. The group then distributed the list among Czech ...

Foreign Policy's David Rothkopf notices a gap in the president's new line-up: There is not one businessperson in the Obama cabinet, just a few elsewhere in the top ranks of government. We have academics. We have politicians. We have lawyers galore. We even, thankfully, have a few bona fide scientists. But when the primary metric for judging the economic success of this administration is ...

Lawyers who specialise in libel actions against media companies have launched a legal counter-attack against the government in the growing battle over English defamation rules.

As The Guardian reports: The political storm over allegations of MI5 complicity in torture escalated tonight after Alan Johnson, the home secretary, accused the media of publishing “groundless accusations” and commentators of spreading “ludicrous lies” about the Security Service. As defence lawyers prepared to challenge the government’s success in suppressing severe c...

SCOTLAND'S lawyers have delivered a stinging rebuke to the Scottish Government, with three out of four saying it was wrong in its criticism of the Supreme Court and a majo