Regulators have imposed more than £1bn in fines on UK companies and senior managers for fraudulent activity since 2007. 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d208baf0-9acd-11e2-97ad-00144feabdc0.html

The Bar Council has published a jargon-busting guide to help litigants in person in the wake of the legal aid cuts that came into force yesterday. 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/70159.article

The Bar Council has called for "self-serving" witness statements to be abolished in most commercial cases at the Rolls Building. Instead they would be replaced by much shorter witness summaries, unless the judge decided otherwise, and the return of examination in chief.

http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/news/legal-profession/barristers/abolish-witness-statements-commercial-cases-bar-council-says

Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls has urged the government, courts and legal profession to educate the public to address some of the media-created myths of the compensation culture.

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/70091.article

The Master of the Rolls said that after 1 April the pressure on defendants to settle “unmeritorious” cases should be “reduced if not eliminated” by bringing costs under control and removing perverse

http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/news/litigation/costs/jackson-reforms-will-%E2%80%98re-establish-equality-arms%E2%80%99-lord-dyson-says

A sole practitioner has launched a business offering a range of unbundled legal services at fixed fees, including consultations via Skype for people who need help conducting their own cases. 

http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/isolicitor-launched-offer-wide-range-unbundled-services-diy-clients

A new government initiative has the potential to rob the criminal bar of its two remaining draws: independence and glamour.

/A new government initiative has the potential to rob the criminal bar of its two remaining draws: independence and glamour.

Law firms are rallying around a campaign to warn the government that 100,000 jobs across the legal services industry will be lost over the next year as a result of its "savage" civil justice reforms. 

http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/exclusive-save-legal-industry-campaign-warns-cameron-100000-jobs-losses-2

The poll of 300 firm leaders by Liverpool firm O’Connors found the vast majority of respondents believed that planned changes to civil justice would reduce their profits. 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/poll-predicts-cull-north-west-firms

The Law Society has set up a dedicated website to help solicitors and trainees worried about the viability of their firms, after radical changes to the legal services market claimed another high-profile casualty. 

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/69922.article