All Law Gazette articles in 2 October 2017 – Page 3

  • Lord chancelllor and Sir Ian Burnett
    News

    Lord chancellor welcomes lord chief with a dash of Kipling

    2017-10-02T13:46:00Z

    Welcoming speech stresses ancient rights ‘unnoticed as the breath we draw’.

  • Neil buckley
    News

    Price transparency proposals 'encouraging' says super regulator

    2017-10-02T12:10:00Z

    Regulators’ action plans provide ‘sufficient starting point’ for transparency reforms. 

  • Allen & Overy
    News

    Allen & Overy NQ pay tops £80,000

    2017-10-02T11:07:00Z

    Magic circle firm confirms increases for trainees and newly qualifieds.

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    News

    Firm hires: Coffin Mew

    2017-10-02T11:00:00Z

    Coffin Mew continues to expand with new trainee recruits.

  • Lord chancellor and mace
    News

    Opening of the legal year

    2017-10-02T09:40:00Z

    The lord chancellor, David Lidington, arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning for the swearing in of Sir Ian Burnett as the new lord chief justice. In his inaugural message, Sir Ian Burnett said: 'At times of great change the central role of the judiciary upholding the rule ...

  • Slater and Gordon Manchester office
    News

    Top 20 firm takes on 33-strong Slater and Gordon team

    2017-10-02T09:26:00Z

    BLM announces that 11 partners are among those joining commercial advisory practice today. 

  • Letters
    Opinion

    Taxing times

    2 October 2017

    I have before me a letter dated 18 September 1967 from a long-deceased client to my long-deceased partner John Mossop. Dear John Income tax returns I am pleased that the inspector has had no difference of opinion with you over the capital section. All my life time ...

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2 October 2017

    The Law Society Gazette, 4 October 2007 Court video drive The government is to pilot extending the use of live video links into Crown courts for witnesses in certain sex offences in the next few months. A spokesman for the Courts Service said it is hoped that the pilot will ...

  • Joshua Rozenberg
    Opinion

    Open justice for judges

    2 October 2017

    Disciplinary proceedings involving the judiciary must be timely and transparent.

  • Vidisha joshi
    Profile

    My legal life: Vidisha Joshi

    2 October 2017

    Managing partner, Hodge Jones & Allen, London

  • Letters
    Opinion

    Sad indictment of judiciary

    2 October 2017

    Clare Moulder’s elevation to the High Court bench is not a ‘significant’  cause for celebration in the context of boosting diversity.

  • Lloyd george family
    News

    Lloyd George tribute

    2 October 2017

    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 ...

  • Paul bennett
    Feature

    Small fortunes

    2 October 2017

    Generating leads, preventing cyber-attacks and a bear dancing the Moonwalk all featured at the Small Firms Division’s annual conference.

  • Opinion

    Flawed petition

    2 October 2017

    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 ...

  • Shami Chakrabarti
    News

    Lawyers feel Labour's love

    2 October 2017

    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. ...

  • Supreme court
    Feature

    Family: Undertakings and variations

    2 October 2017

    Birch v Birch emphasises the variation of family orders.

  • Thames
    News

    Walk this way (or run or cycle)

    2 October 2017

    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 ...

  • Richard allen
    Feature

    Costs: Poorly prepared for a revolution

    2 October 2017

    The transformation of recoverable costs is anything but fixed.

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    News

    The Chuckles and the fury

    2 October 2017

    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 ...

  • J493 ky
    Feature

    Wellbeing: Mind your business

    2 October 2017

    Mental health and wellbeing at work are rising up the agenda of legal employers.