- Volunteer at Bristol Pride this year
- Responding to the criminal legal aid consultation
- Pro Bono Legal Help For Ukrainian Refugees – can you help?
- LAWCARE EXTENDS ONLINE CHAT SERVICE
- Research project on special measures decision-making – criminal law barrister participants
- Bristol Legal Sector Community Engagement Group – Ukraine Fundraiser! 19th May!
- The Law Society – Practicing Certificate Fee consultation
- Reducing Client costs, financial risks and generating cashflow for law firms pursuing litigation
- Landmark Information Group Climate Change Survey in association with BLS
- Approved Judgment of Sir Andrew McFarlane – Somerset Council v NHS
- Pro-bono Clinics – still going strong and as vital as ever!
- 2022 Bristol Legal Walk – Save The Date
- LawCare – Supporting the Legal Community for 25 years!
- Colleges mark launch of collaboration project Bristol Talent
- Eat Share Love – ’91 Ways’ fundraising cook book
- 3PB invests in Bristol Facilities
- Discounted BLS offer for Anything Goes at Bristol Hippodrome
- BLS Statement on Ukraine inc. local legal fundraising initiatives
- Will Search
- SRA survey- In-house solicitors – have your say.
- Property conveyancers accelerate digitisation strategies in fear of falling behind competitors
- Recognise your efforts with The Access to Justice Foundation Award 2022
- What’s going on with solicitors’ PII? Uncover the latest in Howden’s Market Report
- LAWCARE HITS MILESTONE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HELPED
- Bristol One City Boards – expressions of interest invited
- Mediation Research in Bristol Courts
- Getting Blood out of a Stone – handling the uncooperative ex-spouse.
- Howden’s December Newsletter and PII articles
- The Big Give – Be a LawCare star this Christmas
- BLS AGM bids farewell to Ben Holt and welcomes Co-Presidents Erin Sawyer and Edd Thompson in progressive move
- Bristol Drug Project – BLS Presidents’ Charity of the Year
- Bristol Old Vic are reaching out to the legal community to help them realise their upcoming show, The Meaning of Zong.
- Wessex Searches – Streamlining our commercial offering
- BLS Awards 2021 – Winners Announced!
- Thomson Reuters 2021 UK Small and Medium Law Firm Market (UKSMLF) report
- NEW RESEARCH INTO LAWYER WELLBEING MAKES CASE FOR PROFESSION-WIDE CHANGE
- HMCTS – Family Public Law Service Mandation
- BLS Annual Awards Dinner 2021 – Shortlist announced!
- Insight Legal wins the ILFM Solicitors’ Software Users Award 2021
- BLS’ new Annual Dinner Sponsor LCR provides 5 reasons to Mediate Costs Disputes
- Bristol City Council – Consultation on priorities deadline 26th Sept
- Dispute Resolution in England and Wales – MOJ call for evidence – deadline 30 Sept
- Employment Advice from Bristol Law Centre is changing
- Howden’s second Solicitors Market report of 2021 is now ready.
- HMCTS – Safely increasing capacity in our buildings from 19 July 2021
- The transformational powers of workflow – Article by Insight Legal
- Contested Financial Remedy Applications – HMCTS Update June 2021
- COVID-19: Operational notice for external court users of Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre
- 2021/22 round of Queen’s Counsel honoris causa (honorary silk) awards by inviting nomination
- Promotions and retirements at Wards
- Burges Salmon receives platinum Investors in People accreditation
- EU Settlement Scheme – deadline 30th June!
- Nine Feet Tall Host Legal IT Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation
- Contested Financial Remedy Applications – HMCTS Update
- SRA agrees to Law Society’s request for SIF extension
- Are you working from home or living at work? Article by Insight Legal
- The Law Society Good practice for supervision of junior staff and trainees article May 21
- SRA Closure of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF)- Article by BLS Council member
- Howden proud to announce new PII sponsorship of the Bristol Law Society
- Online Applications under S8 Children Act 1989
- Law Care Resources #MHAW 10-16 May 2021
- The Law Society Awards 2021 are now open for entries
- Lateral Flow Test Guidance for local stakeholders: Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre – April 21
- Myanmar update post delegation visit in 2019
- Closure of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund
- Legal Services Board – Launch of Reshaping Legal Services: a sector-wide strategy
- LawCare News March 2021
- Bristol City Initiatives of interest to the local legal Profession
- Bristol One City- March Newsletter
- New report reveals significant LegalTech cluster in Bristol & Bath
- Boost for small businesses as free and independent service for unresolved bank complaints goes live
- Financial Remedy Court Update – HHJ Cope
- Fighting for fairness for Junior Lawyers
- What is ESG and what does it mean for law firms?
- LawCare Impact Report 2020
- Could you or someone you know be a Family Court Magistrate?
- Yeovil Law Courts – COVID update 26th Jan 2021
- Obituary – Matt Ashley, Osborne Clarke
- WECA Recovery Taskforce Update
- WECA Recovery Taskforce
- The Legacy of Coal Mining
- Has your software supplier been taken over? Should you stay or should you go?
- Feeding Bristol – President’s Charity of the Year – Webinar
- Ben Holt AGM Round-up Video
- WECA support for business and residents
- Law Firms Must Adapt and Respond to Pandemic Led Industry Change
- The Law Society: Law under lockdown: the impact of COVID-19 measures on access to justice and vulnerable people
- Research project on the Language of DIY Justice, focusing on communication challenges experienced by LIPS in civil proceedings
- Covid 19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims: Business and Property Courts in Bristol
- HM Courts and Tribunals Service – COVID operating hours
- South West Skills Survey – Weston College and Business Leader magazine
- The Law Society: Law under lockdown: the impact of COVID-19 measures on access to justice and vulnerable people
- BLS to host Nightingale Court – round-up of press coverage
- Obituary of Mark Chawner
- Crime – new payment fee to cover work completed for sending hearings comes into effect on 19 October 2020.
- LAWCARE LAUNCHES GROUND-BREAKING RESEARCH STUDY ‘LIFE IN THE LAW’ – DEADLINE 15th Jan
- Used Stamps Appeal
- VWV Lawyer Appointed As Bristol’s Honorary Consul for Germany
- How is your workplace changing due to Covid-19?
- Hays – New Diversity & Inclusion Report 2020- Flexible working, equality & Covid-19
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No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire
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