All Law Gazette articles in 2 August 2021 – Page 10
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News
Firm hire: International Family Law Group appoints managing partner
Lucy Loizou takes over the role from Ann Thomas.
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News
‘Protecting our people’: US firms insist on staff vaccination
Reed Smith among those declaring that unvaccinated staff in the US will have to work from home.
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‘Pingdemic’: Criminal bar calls for self-isolation exemption
Crown court trials are being seriously disrupted by lawyers forced to isolate, says Criminal Bar Association.
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News
Equity investor begins legal assault with first acquisition
Blixt Group says it wants to build a national firm with more deals in the next four years.
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Academics call for probe into Post Office lawyers
Conduct of litigation was a 'scandal within a scandal', research team alleges.
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The perils of unmuting during a video hearing
Highly unprofessional language halts proceedings at the Supreme Court of Victoria.
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Bar refuses to back down on sexual misconduct sanctions
Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn said the proposed penalties were 'disproportionate' for some types of behaviour.
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Firm hire: Regulatory specialist joins Tyr Law
Leeds based commercial law firm recruits senior associate Marie Bourke.
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Crown court clogged by low value fraud cases
Total value of alleged fraud reaching UK courts fell by 70% year-on-year, despite rise in the volume of cases.
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Firm hire: Baker McKenzie recruits partner to real estate finance team
Oliver Jefferies joins the banking and finance practice in London.
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MoJ seeks views on expanding mediation
Responses to eight-week consultation are expected to shape future reforms to civil, family and administrative justice.
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Paradise Birmingham: DLA Piper office goes fully flexible
Pandemic 'challenged our assumptions' about what staff and clients will need from an office.
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Judge warns of 'hypersensitivity' in lawyer's harassment claim
Courts should not ‘impose legal liability to every unfortunate phrase’, rules employment tribunal.
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Opinion
Guideline hourly rates: an assessment
A member of the last costs committee to propose new guideline hourly rates, which were rejected, assesses the Civil Justice Council’s final report.
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News
Rock and roll (the classical way)
Mr Justice Stewart’s working group on hourly rates gets in an early boost for Roman and Greek mythology.
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SDT warns solicitors about their personal lives
Tribunal panels must act ‘fearlessly’ to protect the public, says president Edward Nally.
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Tetraplegic pupil was no publicity stunt, tribunal rules
Hilary Meredith Solicitors faced accusations of harassment related to disability following pupillage row.