All Law Gazette articles in 2 October 2017
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ProfileWon £1m KWM compensation fight
Alistair McArthur, partner and head of employment at Herrington Carmichael, Berkshire.
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OpinionSigning off on LPA abuse
I was concerned to read about suggestions from the Financial Conduct Authority on removing the requirement for a physical signature on a lasting power of attorney. An LPA is a powerful legal document that allows a person to appoint trusted individuals to make important decisions about their health and financial ...
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OpinionA gilded age for lawyers?
There is a growing tendency for the current generation of lawyers to cast a somewhat jaundiced eye on those of us of an earlier time. They may well have a point. The past is indeed a different country; we did things very differently there. How did we ever justify the ...
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NewsNews focus: How big data is transforming legal practice
If data is the new oil that will fuel the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, how can solicitors best exploit it to provide market-leading legal services?
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FeatureBlue collar: Gareth Farrelly
His goal kept Everton in the premier league but it was a legal run-in with FIFA that led Gareth Farrelly to his new career in law.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Life from the inside
The Knife Went In: Real-life murders and our culture, Theodore Dalrymple
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NewsNews roundup: in brief
Probe of trial waivers A growing tendency for governments to encourage criminal defendants to waive their right to a trial will be examined at a free event organised by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and Fair Trials on 12 October. Logbook loans law A draft Goods Mortgages ...
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FeatureWellbeing: Mind your business
Mental health and wellbeing at work are rising up the agenda of legal employers.
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NewsThe Chuckles and the fury
Few judgments from the Upper Tribunal can be read in the style of the Chuckle Brothers, but Obiter has a candidate. Perhaps exasperated, judge Nicholas Wikeley decided that the children’s TV legends were the only appropriate medium for a case which had progressed from ‘car crash’ to a ‘mini motorway ...
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FeatureCosts: Poorly prepared for a revolution
The transformation of recoverable costs is anything but fixed.
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NewsWalk this way (or run or cycle)
Feeling fit? This autumn’s London legal fundraising event, Walk the Thames, is coming up on 28 October. The course is a half- or full-marathon, following the Thames through the City of London out to the Surrey countryside. ‘Some people run it and a few cycle it,’ says the trust. Organisers ...
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FeatureFamily: Undertakings and variations
Birch v Birch emphasises the variation of family orders.
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NewsLawyers feel Labour's love
Judging by the atmosphere at this year’s Labour conference in Brighton, you’d be forgiven for thinking the party had won the general election back in June. But the outcome, which took away Theresa May’s majority, has certainly rejuvenated the opposition, judging by shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti’s very apparent optimism. ...
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Opinion
Flawed petition
The new-style divorce petition uses clearer language to explain how it should be completed, hopefully making life easier for the litigant in person, and court staff. However, in respect of a petition based on adultery, the new petition may cause greater confusion, complication and cost. Whereas the old-style petition asked ...
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FeatureSmall fortunes
Generating leads, preventing cyber-attacks and a bear dancing the Moonwalk all featured at the Small Firms Division’s annual conference.
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NewsLloyd George tribute
Members of the family of David Lloyd George joined Law Society president Joe Egan at a ceremony to rename the Old Council Chamber in 113 Chancery Lane in honour of the only solicitor to become prime minister. Lloyd George, who was PM from 1916 to 1922, was also the only ...
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OpinionSad indictment of judiciary
Clare Moulder’s elevation to the High Court bench is not a ‘significant’ cause for celebration in the context of boosting diversity.
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