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The Joint National Disclosure Improvement Plan builds on detailed work to agree an effective approach to meet this challenge and represents the shared commitment of the CPS and the NPCC to make sustainable change to the way we exercise our duties of disclosure.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/national-disclosure-improvement-plan

Although claimants have to work hard to prove fraud, it is clear that the courts recognise that it is often difficult to demonstrate that wrongdoers have received funds from complex fraudulent schemes

http://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/Litigation/United-Kingdom/RPC/Guidance-on-proving-significant-and-complex-fraud

Gone are the days of lawyers having to carry heavy briefcases and large folders full of documents

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/associate-news/document-sharing-modern-law-firm

A solicitor who deliberately kept money from clients for barristers’ fees and told his accounts manager to cover it up, in a bid to prop up his firm, has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitor-deliberately-failed-pay-thousands-barristers-fees-struck-off

The Bar Council has strongly attacked plans by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to force barristers to publish prices and internal complaints records.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/bar-council-lashes-bsb-price-publication-plans

There has been a surprise 14% increase in the number of students enrolling on the Bar professional training course (BPTC), it has emerged.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/revealed-sudden-increase-students-enrolling-bar-training-course

Asset recovery specialist Alan Sheeley of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that authorities such as the National Crime Agency, City of London Police and other local police forces often do not have the resources to move quickly enough to seize criminal assets

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2017/december/law-enforcement-budget-cuts-behind-fall-in-criminal-asset-seizures-says-expert/