All Law Gazette articles in 22 November 2021
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News
SRA’s chargeable hours under scrutiny - in a case about inflated hours
Tribunal cuts regulator's cost bill by £15,126 after finding 'duplication' in work.
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Listed firms buoyant after reporting half-year profit rises
Knights and Gateley both optimistic about coming six months after promising half-year figures.
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Retired solicitor agrees to strike-off over filing delay
Veteran practitioner admits seeking to conceal a late submission to the property tribunal.
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Clyde and BLM tight-lipped on merger reports
Merged practice would have 3,300 legal professionals worldwide.
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Law firms join Black Friday bandwagon with host of special offers
Discounts and promotion codes dangled before clients on ‘biggest shopping days of the year’.
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Opinion
Harper's Law: Some practical difficulties
Can a 'one size fits all' sentence always do justice in the myriad of circumstances where the offence is manslaughter rather than murder?
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MoJ remodels housing emergency scheme to address concerns
Housing loss prevention advice service would incorporate existing court duty scheme and early legal advice.
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Immigration legal aid consultation criticised for lack of data
Concerns and challenges over digital system discussed at latest Young Legal Aid Lawyers meeting.
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Vos calls for review of time-consuming costs budgeting regime
Master of the rolls says he wants incremental change rather than another Woolf or Jackson - and hits out at foreign litigants.
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Proposed football regulator ‘will need lawyers’
A recommended independent regulator for English football will require ‘experts from the finance, legal, economics and football industries’.
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Shania’s still the one for costs lawyers
Association of Costs Lawyers conference livened things up with an unusual choice of theme song.
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‘Pressing need’ for guidance on judicial visits in CoP - McFarlane
Family Division president says a practice direction or presidential guidance may be issued on the subject of judicial visits in CoP cases.
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Firm hire: Employment head appointed at Aticus Law
Gaynor Beckett has previously worked with organisations including the National Union of Teachers and the Royal College of Nursing.
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Solicitor grossly inflated his hours to ‘avoid adverse scrutiny’
Probate work which required 15 hours was put down by solicitor as taking more than 500.
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Opinion
From JPs to High Court judges
The Jewish Contribution to English Law: Through 1858 to Modern Times | Barrington Black
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Smart contracts are legally sound, Law Commission confirms
Commission encourages the market to anticipate and cater for potential uncertainties around self-executing contracts.
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Justice minister hails legal innovation on Middle East mission
English law is 'highly flexible and able to react to the changing needs of both markets and society at large', Lord Wolfson says.