All Law Gazette articles in 23 April 2018
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NewsLawyer ‘advisers’ set to supplant judges
New category of legal adviser may be delegated up to 22 powers, in amendments published as part of new rules concerning holiday sickness claims.
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ProfileAnn Crighton: A higher calling
Former Crown advocate says CPS descended into ‘madness’ when lawyers were sidelined. So this formidable self-starter carved out a new career, hears Jonathan Rayner
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NewsNews focus: Siege mentality at APIL conference
APIL’s conference did little to dispel the perception of a personal injury sector perpetually in crisis, and the Civil Liability Bill will pile more pressure on beleaguered practitioners.
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FeatureWhite collar crime - David Green: an appreciation
Departed SFO director put the much-maligned agency back on track. So what of its future?
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NewsMagic circle's mixed bag on gender
Magic circle firms have continued to address gender imbalance in their annual promotion rounds.
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NewsGDPR warning over boilerplate policy
The Law Society has published a checklist for firms in the latest instalment of advice on compliance with GDPR.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Lloyd George: Statesman or Scoundrel
Lloyd George: Statesman or Scoundrel Richard Wilkinson £25, I.B. Tauris Only one solicitor has ever become prime minister of the UK. You can find his portrait in the lobby of the Law Society’s HQ in Chancery Lane – so long as you take a sharp left at ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Life on the inside
Subtitled ‘the key to avoiding the risk’, this book is an excellent introduction to a complicated subject.
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NewsCapture ruling opens way to costs recovery
Ahead of a potential costs windfall, PI firms will comb their records this week for cases where insurers have settled claims direct.
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ProfileClient victim of Windrush scandal
Lawyer in the news: Enny Choudhury, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
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OpinionWindrush compensation
The targeting and detaining of undocumented Caribbean migrants who (it must be not be forgotten) were invited to work in the UK, and have been living, working, raising families, paying taxes and collecting pensions since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, is grossly unconscionable, divisive and utterly disgraceful.
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NewsPrivacy and past crimes
James Morton People seeking privacy over past misdemeanours are following an old tradition. Ninety years ago Sergeant Sullivan, opening a libel action by Francis Alfonso Smith, asked the jury to say that there was too much revival of matter which ‘Mr Smith might hope was buried’. ...
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FeatureDesign, intrapreneurs and incubators
Law firms can apply classic product design principles to legal issues
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NewsSoap and glory
Fans of popular British soap operas get all emotional over actions of fictional solicitors.
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NewsJobs to go as Keen sticks to reform script
PI lawyers heard in Birmingham last week that there will be no let-up in reforms.
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