All Law Gazette articles in 20 March 2017
View all stories from this issue.
-
Opinion
Registry lens on photo ID
Maybe Land Registry will agree to registering passport-sized photos of the buyers?
-
NewsNew watchdog to oversee profession's anti-money laundering regime
The Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision will complement updated draft AML regulations.
-
NewsStewarts and Enyo merger called off
Firms were in ’early stage discussions’ of combination that would have created £82m practice.
-
NewsEngland and Wales jails more than any other EU country
England and Wales had an incarceration rate of 148.3 per 100,000 of population in September 2015.
-
NewsKatie Hopkins to appeal
Tabloid columnist Katie Hopkins said she will appeal a High Court order to pay food blogger Jack Monroe damages of £24,000 over two tweets. Mr Justice Warby’s ruling in Jack Monroe v Katie Hopkins was one of the first to define the threshold for ‘serious harm to reputation’ introduced by ...
-
News
Marine’s conviction
Five judges led by the lord chief justice sitting in the Court Martial Appeal Court ruled that the murder conviction of former Marines sergeant Alexander Blackman was unsafe, substituting a verdict of manslaughter.
-
News
Welsh legal giant emerges
South-west Wales firm JCP Solicitors is to merge with specialist practice Glamorgan Law in a move that is set to create the largest law firm with offices solely in Wales. The new UK top-200 firm will have turnover in excess of £10m.
-
Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: Petroleum Contracts: English Law and Practice (2nd edition)
Peter Roberts has produced a valuable contribution to Lex Petrolea
-
-
Opinion
ABS hype is a sideshow
Why the focus on alternative business structures? Time should be spent fighting legal aid cuts.
-
ProfileDisastrous ‘admin error’ led to wrongful arrest
Kevin Donoghue won £60,000 compensation for client wrongfully arrested on suspicion of sharing indecent images of children.
-
OpinionA welcome retreat on bad law
Vulnerable children must always be able to access the help they need.
-
NewsRaising the bar on tweets
Barristers get advice on how to navigate the murky waters of social media
-
OpinionBeefing up the bench
Intellect trumps all – standards must not fall as the judiciary addresses its recruitment ‘crisis’.
-
Opinion
Footing the bills for Brexit
Civil servants face a huge logistical challenge in implementing a deluge of legislation to coincide with the UK’s exit from the EU.
-
Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: May It Please You, Madam: A little book of legal whimsy
Enthralling tales from the frontline
-
NewsReferral fee probe over claims for holiday bugs
Concern that CMCs see cases as a partial saviour following whiplash reforms.
-
FeatureMental capacity: winners and losers
Law Commission report on Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty.
-
FeatureLegal technology: the rise of the chatbots
Chatbots handling multiple interactions give a new dimension to customer care and access to justice