All Law Gazette articles in 19 February 2018 – Page 4

  • David Greene
    Profile

    Class warrior: Interview with David Greene

    19 February 2018

    Group action pioneer and Gazette Legal Personality of the Year David Greene has spent his career battling the establishment, hears.

  • Leedshospital
    Feature

    Budana’s lesson: check the paperwork

    19 February 2018

    Colin Campbell discusses the lesson to be learned from Budana v The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2017] 6 costs LR 113.

  • Nokia phone
    Feature

    Empathetic bricolage: Thought leadership in legal technology

    19 February 2018

    Much of today’s genuine innovation involves re-engineering processes to create something new.

  • Letters
    Opinion

    Branch finder

    19 February 2018

    In reponse to Kate Neil’s article on banking for lawyers, Angela Jackson finds that ‘the credit controller who knew his customers’ is alive and well.

  • James Morton
    News

    Evidence? Then spill the beans

    19 February 2018

    The quarrel over non-disclosure, particularly in rape cases, rumbles on. I see that austerity is now being blamed for the failure of the police and Crown Prosecution Service to realise that, in some cases, complainants are not being wholly frank. I also see a suggestion that bobbies are to be ...

  • Paula Lee
    Feature

    Battling supermarket giant for equal pay

    19 February 2018

    Lawyer in the news: Paula Lee, Leigh Day

  • SRA
    News

    BAME boost? Just do the maths

    19 February 2018

    Latest SRA data from its biennial diversity survey was published last week along with a stern injunction from chief executive Paul Philip that there is ‘much more to do to achieve a truly diverse profession’.

  • Baker & McKenzie
    News

    SRA weighs up Baker McKenzie assault claim

    19 February 2018

    Alleged sexual assault by senior male partner at Baker McKenzie’s.

  • non-disclosure agreement
    Opinion

    Confidentiality agreements

    19 February 2018

    Law firms use the same strategy whether allegations are true or false.

  • Masood Ahmed
    Feature

    E-disclosure and party agreement

    19 February 2018

    The disclosure of relevant documents during the litigation process has been a longstanding and distinctive feature of English civil procedure. However, standard disclosure under the Civil Procedure Rules does not give rise to ‘perfect justice’.

  • Monidipa Fouzder
    News

    News focus: legal advice gateway to nowhere

    19 February 2018

    The cancellation of a procurement offers an ideal opportunity to overhaul the way publicly funded advice on debt, discrimination and education is provided.

  • Ison Harrison
    News

    Ee by gum! What an advert

    19 February 2018

    Ison Harrison has released a new ad which Obiter says is like a John Lewis Christmas effort put through a Yorkshire filter.

  • Catherine Calder
    News

    Barristers slow to take up ABS option – BSB

    19 February 2018

    Barristers appear to have shunned the idea of setting up alternative businesses structures licensed by the Bar Standards Board in the 10 months since the opportunity has been available, figures have revealed. An ABS structure allows non-lawyers to own part or all of a firm. The BSB’s approved ABS list ...

  • Law Society Chancery Lane illustration
    Feature

    Influencing at home and abroad

    19 February 2018

    February’s meeting of the Law Society Council was held at the Law Society Hall on Chancery Lane. This was the first on home turf for over a year as the chamber roof had been under repair.

  • Blandy & Blandy LLP
    News

    285-year-old firm is no stick-in-the-mud

    19 February 2018

    Reading firm Blandy & Blandy LLP first took lease of 1 Friar Street at a rent of £4 a year in 1798.