All Law Gazette articles in 12 March 2018
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OpinionInternational Women's Day
Lawyers’ instincts on justice and fairness must extend to real equality at the top of the legal profession.
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NewsSuper-exam decision delayed again
Legal Services Board tells regulator it needs to consider ‘additional correspondence’ on SQE
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OpinionGuides to Inheritance Act claims
Izzy Jaques and Andrew Kidd review two Inheritance Act claim guides.
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NewsPI firms face search engine ‘arms race’
Personal injury firms are being drawn into an increasingly expensive arms race to reach the top of internet search engines, the Gazette has learned. Marketing experts say the cost per click for key search terms has rocketed in recent months as lawyers jostle for top ranking in a crowded but ...
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OpinionNow hear this: live is best
Malcolm Fowler is weary of the issues to arise from a ’rush towards video and other remote hearing formats’.
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NewsBlacklaws: include partners in pay gap statistics
Firms should include partners in their statistics on employee pay, says Law Society vice-president.
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OpinionWho are you to call me a ‘blob’?
J Howard Shelley is offended by Liz Truss’s comments this week directed at the legal profession.
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NewsNews focus: Bridging the diversity chasm
A Law Society survey on women in the law suggests that attitudes to gender equality are improving, but unconscious bias is still widely perceived to be a major problem.
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Positive reaction to call for dishonesty definition
Lawyers have cautiously welcomed a suggestion by the president of the Supreme Court that parliament should define what constitutes dishonesty.
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NewsDelay casts fresh doubt over new super-exam
Fresh uncertainty hangs over the plan to replace the LPC with a new centrally set examination.
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NewsRegistry to reform land charge data
HM Land Registry seeks solicitors’ opinions as it begins migration process to digital database.
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NewsRegulator seeks RBS conflict evidence
The SRA will ask to see evidence collected by financial watchdogs into possible conflicts involving lawyers seconded to banking giant RBS.
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NewsElizabeth the freight
It appears triggering Article 50 affected the humour on display last week at an august panel discussion held at City firm HFW.
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OpinionPanama Papers: the fallout
Criminal Finances Act 2017: A Guide To The New Law Hugo Daniel Lodge £59.95, Law Society Publishing This concise guide to the Criminal Finances Act 2017 will be a valuable asset to those advising people who fall under suspicion of committing the newly created offences of failing to ...
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