NSPCC seen a surge in concerns about children experiencing domestic abuse

The NSPCC Helpline fielded almost 4,000 contacts about concerns for children experiencing domestic abuse between April 2024 and September 2024. There has been a 19% increase about the issue compared to the same period last year. Coercive or controlling behaviour, emotional domestic abuse and post-separation domestic abuse were concerns repeatedly raised in contacts the adult […]

Victims to be given more protection in stalking crackdown

Stalking victims are to be given more protection and perpetrators will face robust management under a raft of new measures unveiled by the Home Office. For the first time, the Home Secretary will issue new ‘Right to Know’ statutory guidance to empower the police to release the identity of an online stalker at the earliest opportunity. […]

Divorce solicitor removed from profession for forging client’s signature

Sally Gandon, an experienced solicitor with a 44-year career, has been struck off following an agreement with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) after admitting to forging a divorce client’s signature, as reported by The Law Society Gazette. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal confirmed the sanction after a one-day hearing last month. Gandon, who previously maintained an […]

What risks might sink your ship in 2025?

Ahead of the launch of an exciting new initiative in 2025 related to Risk Management within legal services firms, Today’s Media is surveying law firms on which risks to their business most concerns them; what firms see as important issues in 2025 and beyond; and how well equipped they feel to tackle them. The results […]

Gingerbread calls on the government to fix the CMS

Gingerbread have published a new report on the impact of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) on separated families.  Single parents – both those paying and receiving maintenance – have told them that the way the CMS works can contribute to worsening relationships between separated parents. Gingerbread have said that reforming the CMS must be a […]

Legal sector grows by 50% in the last decade

The gross value added (GVA) from UK legal services is estimated to have increased by 50% in the last decade. According to the newly published Economic Value report by the Law Society of England and Wales, the gross value added from UK legal sector was £34.2 billion in 2022 (£22.8 billion in 2013). The growth […]