So much for the Global Law Summit – Gove floats £60m-plus tax on City law firms to fund criminal courts

New Justice secretary Michael Gove is set for a tussle with City lawyers after floating a plan to impose a multi-million pound tax on commercial law firms to pay for the abolition of a controversial criminal court charge on guilty defendants.

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