All Law Gazette articles in 22 May 2017
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News
Council considers appealing £150k data fine
Basildon Borough Council published sensitive information about traveller family on its website.
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News
Home Office the most JR-ed department in 2016 after 18% increase
Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice show number of civil trials is on the rise.
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News
Insurer claims to have key to persuading lawyers to use DBAs
New funding arrangement sees law firms limiting their risk exposure when offering damages based agreements.
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News
'We're not like other local authority ABSs', Kent chief declares
Geoff Wild says Invicta Law is a freestanding, wholly independent company.
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Opinion
Climate Trumpery is not the end of the world
Lawyers have a role in combatting the harm done by climate change, but perhaps not the one you think.
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Feature
Middle East challenges to dispute resolution professionals
Despite new arbitration and enforcement laws in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and even Dubai, remain difficult jurisdictions for the enforcement of judgments and international arbitral awards.
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News
Bar urges all lawyers to resist extended-hours courts
Barristers’ representative body says no court should sit before 10am or beyond 4.30pm.
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Analysis
Trucker appeals jail sentence for causing death by dangerous driving
32-month prison sentence appealed: Joseph Smith was jailed in February for causing death by dangerous driving.
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News
Firm hire: PCB Litigation LLP
PCB Litigation is delighted to announce that Jon Felce has joined the partnership on 1 June. Since joining the team in 2014 from a leading international firm, Jon has obtained a number of extremely successful results for his clients including a series of ground-breaking orders. Jon has significant experience in ...
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JAC figures highlight solicitors' struggle to make the bench
Judicial Appointments Commission figures show 14 solicitors recommended in latest recruitment exercises.
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News
Refuse work if it's uneconomical, Society tells legal aid firms
Rejecting instructions on the basis that the work is not properly remunerated is in line with code of conduct, practice note states.
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Law Report
Insurance
The Supreme Court upheld the original Court of Appeal decision that that a casualty had been caused by an ‘abnormal occurrence’ with the result that no breach of the safe port warranty had occurred.
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News
Womble Bond Dickinson is latest transatlantic tie-up
Deal will create top-20 firm with revenue of more than £340 million.
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News
MedCo disciplines dozens of doctors for late reports
Delays in uploading data has been the subject of solicitors’ complaints.
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News
Norton Rose secretary banned for helping herself to £558
Junior secretary the subject of notice posted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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News
Promotions: Harbottle & Lewis
Harbottle & Lewis announce partner appointments and senior associate promotions
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News
SRA refuses to budge over private board meetings
'We are not hiding anything away', chief executive tells journalists.