All Law Gazette articles in 18 June 2018
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NewsInterim Paul Tennant appointed permanent Law Society CEO
The Law Society has appointed Paul Tennant, interim chief executive since last year, as its permanent CEO with immediate effect. In a statement, the Society noted that Tennant has worked on sharpening the Society’s focus, with more to be done to improve communications with members and keep them up to ...
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NewsCosts master denies another client's demand to see claim files
Latest disclosure request in costs challenge turned down - but judge says issue will be discussed further at appeal.
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NewsEdward Argar MP joins justice ministerial team
Dr Phillip Lee replaced by another non-lawyer at Ministry of Justice.
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NewsCoA awards £60k damages against 'unscrupulous' fake firm fraudsters
Lawyers say decision resolves decades of uncertainty around the application of exemplary damages.
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Opinion
Triple judicial pay to attract applications
Eduardo Reyes’s article on the lack of diversity among the senior judiciary (‘On judicial diversity, there is little trickle-up effect’, lawgazette.co.uk, 7 June) was well observed. They need to triple the amount they pay High Court Judges and have a proper career ladder, rather than the old-school tie system in ...
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NewsAnd so it begins…
The World Cup is upon us, meaning a month of early finishes and web browsers quickly minimised whenever the boss walks past. Luckily, England games fall in the evening or at the weekend, so absenteeism should not be the problem it was in previous tournaments. But with 5,500 foreign lawyers ...
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NewsMinister quits out of the Blue
Obiter feels for soft-Tory thinktank Bright Blue. It teamed up last week with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to present an agenda-setting conference ‘Fighting for Freedom: Conservatism, human rights and discrimination’. The idea was to reclaim the debate on human rights from the left. Keynote speaker Phillip Lee MP, ...
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Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: From Russia with love
The best lawyers are dispassionate even when responding to their clients’ needs for support and empathy.
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Opinion
SFO’s new broom
Lisa Osofsky’s appointment as SFO director (Gazette, 4 June) is to be welcomed. Coming as she does from a different background to her predecessor, we should expect some changes in approach. US prosecutors tend to be more open about their policies and how they plan to implement them, for example ...
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NewsLaw enforcers struggle with electronic evidence challenges
Interrogation of director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders highlighted the justice system’s failure to adapt to the digital era.
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OpinionHoliday claims stereotype holds water
I read with interest the letter from Paul Smith (Gazette, 4 June) regarding holiday claims. It appears that, when he is not travelling on the Clapham omnibus, our ordinary man is on the Torremolinos flight, having saved for 12 months for his holiday. I am not sure that I have ...
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OpinionSearching for clarity
‘Property Search VAT confusion set to continue’ (Gazette, 4 June) discussed the effect of the decision in Brabners LLP v The Commissioners for HMRC. It is important to note that this decision has created a peculiar situation, whereby HMRC allows conveyancers to invoice postal searches as disbursements, but requires electronic ...
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OpinionA direction from the Supreme Court
‘How unusual is it,’ I was asked on BBC Radio Ulster, ‘for the Supreme Court to say it has no jurisdiction to decide a case but then to say what it would have decided if it could?’
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NewsRoyal Mail GC: data demonstrates your value
Hard data can help a general counsel (GC) demonstrate their legal team’s value to a business as well as cut its costs, Royal Mail’s GC told the Law Society’s flagship conference for in-house lawyers last week. Maaike de Bie In conversation with Stephen Denyer, the Society’s ...
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NewsMcFarlane LJ echoes Munby over family justice ‘disaster’
A national board set up to improve the performance of the family justice system and chaired by government ministers had not met for 17 months until recently, the president-designate of the family division has revealed. For this crucial co-ordinating body not to be functioning at a time of crisis ‘is ...
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NewsPimlico: solicitors split on future of ‘gig economy’
Supreme Court ruled that plumber should be considered a ‘worker’ and entitled to rights such as holiday pay, but judges are accused of ‘bottling’ the chance to ‘modernise’ employment law.