All Law Gazette articles in 20 March 2017 – Page 4
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FeatureCoq of the walk
Brexit looms and even ‘Frexit’ cannot be ruled out, but international law firms remain sanguine about doing business in France. Marialuisa Taddia reports
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FeatureLegal technology: the rise of the chatbots
Chatbots handling multiple interactions give a new dimension to customer care and access to justice
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FeatureMental capacity: winners and losers
Law Commission report on Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty.
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NewsReferral fee probe over claims for holiday bugs
Concern that CMCs see cases as a partial saviour following whiplash reforms.
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Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: May It Please You, Madam: A little book of legal whimsy
Enthralling tales from the frontline
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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.
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OpinionBeefing up the bench
Intellect trumps all – standards must not fall as the judiciary addresses its recruitment ‘crisis’.
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NewsRaising the bar on tweets
Barristers get advice on how to navigate the murky waters of social media
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OpinionA welcome retreat on bad law
Vulnerable children must always be able to access the help they need.
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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.
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Opinion
ABS hype is a sideshow
Why the focus on alternative business structures? Time should be spent fighting legal aid cuts.
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Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: Petroleum Contracts: English Law and Practice (2nd edition)
Peter Roberts has produced a valuable contribution to Lex Petrolea
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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NewsStewarts and Enyo merger called off
Firms were in ’early stage discussions’ of combination that would have created £82m practice.