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Appointment of Legal Assessors

The NMC appoints Legal Assessors to advise its Fitness to Practise panels on questions of law in accordance with Article 34 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.Applications are invited from barristers, advocates or solicitors for appointment to the NMC’s ...

OFT asked to investigate judges over legal tendering 'boycott'

Complaint will accuse three former chairs of the Family Bar Association of breaching Competition ActThe Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to be pressed to investigate three UK judges over alleged cartel behaviour relating to a collective boycott of a ...

Cobbetts and Weightmans on combined council panel

NOTE: This tender was managed by First LawA consortium of four local authorities in the north have become the latest councils to drive down their legal spend by setting up a joint advisory panel.Halton, Knowsley, Sefton and West Lancashire councils ...