All Law Gazette articles in 2 October 2017 – Page 3
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Lord chancellor welcomes lord chief with a dash of Kipling
Welcoming speech stresses ancient rights ‘unnoticed as the breath we draw’.
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Price transparency proposals 'encouraging' says super regulator
Regulators’ action plans provide ‘sufficient starting point’ for transparency reforms.
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Allen & Overy NQ pay tops £80,000
Magic circle firm confirms increases for trainees and newly qualifieds.
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Opening of the legal year
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 ...
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Top 20 firm takes on 33-strong Slater and Gordon team
BLM announces that 11 partners are among those joining commercial advisory practice today.
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Opinion
Taxing times
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 ...
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Memory lane
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 ...
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Opinion
Open justice for judges
Disciplinary proceedings involving the judiciary must be timely and transparent.
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Opinion
Sad 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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Lloyd 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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Feature
Small 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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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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Lawyers 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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Family: Undertakings and variations
Birch v Birch emphasises the variation of family orders.
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Walk 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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Costs: Poorly prepared for a revolution
The transformation of recoverable costs is anything but fixed.
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The 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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Wellbeing: Mind your business
Mental health and wellbeing at work are rising up the agenda of legal employers.
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