Top Lib Dem was given the task of taking the pain for Conservative-led reforms

Thursday, 02 February 2012 The Scots don’t play much cricket. But Lord Wallace of Tankerness, former Lib Dem leader north of the border and now advocate general for Scotland, showed he can wield the straightest of bats during the lords debate on part 2 of LASPO. The courtliness of his manners did not compromise the steeliness of his guard. A barrage of amendments was g...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness showed he can wield the straightest of bats
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Lifting the lid on ‘hackgate’

by Gill Phillips, director of editorial legal services at Guardian News & Media Ltd

As we all now know, News International last month settled 37 of the civil claims brought against News Group Newspapers (NGN), the publisher of the now defunct News of the World



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Sound defence

I write in defence of advocates representing mentally ill clients. I am concerned that your article promulgates the common perception that lawyers see mental health advocacy as an ‘easy ride’ in comparison with advocacy in other fields.



Ripple effect

We need to fight back against HSBC over its conveyancing panel policy. Upon learning of its decision I emailed our business manager, who replied that it was just as big a shock to him as it was to me, since it was the first he had heard about it.



Moving banks

In his article on HSBC and conveyancing, Jonathan Smithers rightly says that solicitors may take steps to steer clients away from HSBC.



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Big bang, big crash
Michael Cross
Friday, 03 February 2012

Broadly speaking, computer projects make three sorts of news headline. One is the ‘gee-whiz gizmo’ of fond Tomorrow’s World memory. Second is the ‘big brother’ scare story about surveillance or intrusive data-sharing.

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An ABS game-changer as UK says g’day to Aussies
John Hyde
Thursday, 02 February 2012

Those Aussies just can’t resist a bit of competition.

From their cricket team beating us with depressing regularity in the 1990s to Paul Hogan ('you call that a knife?'), it seems a nation devoted to one-upmanship. So we shouldn’t be too surprised to see an Aussie law firm this week muscling into the UK legal profession with all the subtlety of a Prisoner Cell Block H plotline.

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JLD gets the message out, forsooth
Jonathan Rayner
Wednesday, 01 February 2012

What’s in a name? / That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet (Romeo and Juliet).

I’m getting all Shakespearian about names here because the moniker - the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) - defies easy definition. For starters, lots of its members are by no means ‘junior’. Some have grown-up children and one gentleman I spotted the other night even had grey hairs.

Or maybe, like mine, they were just cunningly applied silver highlights.

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