All Law Gazette articles in 22 January 2018
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NewsRadical new disclosure regime to 'spell out' lawyers' duties
New rules for Business and Property Courts will require parties to complete review document.
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FeaturePlanning consent contrary to advice
What legal duty does a local planning authority have to state reasons behind a decision, against the advice of its own professional advisers, to grant a controversial development?
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OpinionPrice of ambition
Trainee solicitors should not be penalised for looking for jobs elsewhere if their current firm waits until the last minute to offer them a position.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Arms and the mandate
Adrian Lower reviews Katharine Fortin’s The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law.
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NewsNews focus: new bar chair defends venerable business model
New bar chair Andrew Walker QC fiercely defends an old business model - if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
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ProfileTroubled waters - interview with Barra McGrory QC
Northern Ireland’s first Catholic DPP talks to Eduardo Reyes about holding state entities to account and professional friendships that cross sectarian divides.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Best defence
The 4th edition of Anthony Edwards and Roger Ede’s Criminal Defence ’should be a key text for all criminal defence firms.’
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NewsFirms suffer the January blues – but is it a myth?
Two firms succumbed last week in what is a very tough trading period - but are practices really more at risk in ‘crunch month’?
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FeatureEU treaty breaches and national courts
Undertakings investigated by the European Commission that offer commitments, while avoiding a formal finding of infringement binding on the national court, may not prevent those who consider themselves harmed by the conduct from bringing actions for damages.
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NewsEnd game nears for India liberalisation case
India liberalisation case may be entering last leg, Kian Ganz reports from Mumbai.
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NewsTough questions over hard cases
The very disparate cases of John Worboys, Jon Venables and Ben Stokes (pictured) highlight some of the topical problems of the criminal justice process. James Morton Taking Stokes’ case first, last week the England cricketer was charged with affray over an alleged incident outside a nightclub in ...
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FeatureCeltic tiger comes a cropper – did state lose out?
Litigation has always been a mainstay of Irish law firms, looming larger than usual during the recession as courts cleared up much of the mess left after the country’s banks and property market collapsed.
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FeatureSecond city’s two centuries
Birmingham Law Society was established 200 years ago. President Andrew Beedham shares the organisation’s plans for its bicentenary and examines the legacy of one of the UK’s oldest law societies.
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News‘No choice but to engage’ over disclosure
The group working on a complete overhaul of the rules on disclosure for the Business and Property Courts is calling for feedback from lawyers and clients.
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NewsProposed superexam is no cash cow, says SRA
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has denied that the new solicitors superexam will be a cash cow.