All Law Gazette articles in 2 August 2021
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NewsMishcon to face SDT over client account transactions
Former head of sport is accused of causing or allowing inappropriate payments to be made into and from the firm’s client account.
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NewsMidlands firm embarks on recruitment drive after 'incredible year'
Lodders is seeking to increase its workforce by more than 25% as more national firms defy the Covid downturn.
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NewsPanasonic GC ups the ante on compliance
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic has embedded compliance questions into its annual employee survey to help benchmark the impact of its legal and compliance activities against other corporations, its general counsel has revealed.
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OpinionJulian Assange: peering through the murk
If Assange is extradited to the US and convicted of any of the charges he faces there, the US government will let him serve his sentence in an Australian prison.
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OpinionEssential Law for Cemetery and Crematorium Managers
V. Charles Ward£39, independently published Since Davies’ Law of Burial, Cremation and Exhumation in 2002, burial and cremation law has moved on. Essential Law covers a range of subjects, including the Local Authorities’ Cemeteries Order 1977, Victorian burial statutes, and cremation legislation. Among its appendices ...
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NewsCourt in a heatwave
Obiter is grateful to the reader who got in touch to lament the ‘intolerable’ conditions at Westminster Magistrates’ Court during last month’s heatwave.
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OpinionMust-have criminal guide
Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod’s Text, Cases, and Materials on Criminal Law (13th edition)
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OpinionThe future’s orange
‘Cutbacks are being made across the criminal justice system, with a massive shortfall in the court service budget and prison reform groups saying efficiency savings are crippling attempts at rehabilitation.’
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NewsSetting the standards for lawtech
Both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Law Society made significant announcements last week about promoting and regulating technology. What happens next?
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ProfileMy legal life: Rachel O’Connor, Michelmores
Rachel O’Connor is a partner at Michelmores, Bristol
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ProfileStrength in numbers
Metamorph, the new owner of QualitySolicitors, claims to be revolutionising legal services. Executive chair Tony Stockdale tells Eduardo Reyes why the consolidator is prospering when so many other ‘game-changers’ have faded away.
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FeatureRight-to-work regime
The Home Office has issued new right-to-work guidance as the Brexit transitional arrangements for EU workers in the UK came to an end on 30 June 2021.
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FeatureTesting times
With less than a month to go until the SQE becomes the route to qualification, many unanswered questions remain about its operation and likely impact.
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NewsCosts judge concerned by 'exceptionally large' rise in firm's hourly rates
Firm to appeal master's decision which 'raises an important issue for the profession'.
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NewsCoalition of lawyers unveils ‘universally standardised’ NDA
The new template is designed to improve the efficiency of legal teams and increase transparency.
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NewsHourly rates rebuff for non-London commercial firms
Master of rolls to consider proposed rises in guideline rates frozen since 2010.
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NewsWork where you want, Womble Bond Dickinson tells staff
Transatlantic firm says working from home has not affected productivity or client service.