All Law Gazette articles in 25 September 2017 – Page 3

  • Lucy lewis (2)
    Opinion

    Cardiff: Our launch pad for expansion

    25 September 2017

    Wales has established itself as a centre of opportunity for advisers.

  • News

    ​Green cost caps ruling

    25 September 2017

    Environmental groups and the Ministry of Justice both claimed victory following a ruling on cost caps on environmental challenges. In The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Others v the Secretary of State for Justice and the Lord Chancellor, Mr Justice Dove ruled that cost-cap hearings should be ...

  • Bangor University
    News

    Legal Wales: ‘Second-rate talent’ fear over Brexit

    25 September 2017

    Professor warns offering migrants short working periods will discourage them from coming to Wales to begin with.

  • Parliament
    Feature

    Council: Fresh blood and defining a culture

    25 September 2017

    September’s meeting of the Law Society Council.

  • Morton landscape
    News

    Death becomes her at Old Bailey

    25 September 2017

    Florence Earengey sat in on the Beatrice Pace murder trial when her husband was junior counsel to Norman Birkett, but the first woman to lead in a murder case at the Old Bailey was Venetia Stephenson. She defended William Holmyard, charged with the December 1928 murder of his 72-year-old grandfather. ...

  • Wales assembly
    Opinion

    Separation anxiety

    25 September 2017

    Momentum is growing for Wales to go its own way.

  • Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, lord chief justice, at launch of business and property courts
    News

    Legal Wales: LCJ highlights devolution ambiguity

    25 September 2017

    The outgoing lord chief justice devoted his final speech in the role to outlining major themes shaping the future of the justice sector – most notably the ‘huge retrenchment’ in what the state is willing to pay for. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd also alluded to the lack of a defined ...

  • Alcatraz pic
    News

    Escape from Alcatraz

    25 September 2017

    We do not often celebrate a solicitor’s escape from jail, but here is an exception. Jonathan Throp (pictured centre), a partner at Pearson Hards Solicitors in New Malden, Surrey, has survived the notorious two-kilometre swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco. Throp says: ‘It is challenging partly due to the ...

  • Entrance to 113 Chancery Lane after 2016 refurbishment
    News

    AI will severely disrupt legal services, says futurologist

    25 September 2017

    Artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor intelligent – but it will severely disrupt the legal services world, according to the keynote speaker at this week’s Law Society conference ‘Legal services in a data-driven world’. Futurologist Dave Coplin says that essential skills for the digital society will be ‘creativity, empathy and ...

  • Dale beeson
    Profile

    Acted for cyclist after pedestrian died

    25 September 2017

    Who? Dale Beeson, solicitor-advocate at DPP Law, Romford. Why is he in the news? Represented cyclist Charlie Alliston, who was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders institution last week after knocking over a woman in London last year. Kim Briggs died of her injuries a week later. Alliston ...

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    News

    160 all out for SJ

    25 September 2017

    Obiter is saddened to hear of the demise of Solicitors Journal, the oldest (and for many years the only) publication aimed at our branch of the profession. The final edition appears tomorrow. From its first number in January 1857, the Journal took a broad view of legal interests, for instance ...

  • david lidington 2
    News

    News focus: Bach to square one?

    2017-09-22T09:00:00Z

    With the rule of law under sustained attack, the Bach Commission wants higher spending and a replacement for the much-maligned Legal Aid Agency. Will the government listen?

  • Lord Bach
    News

    Bach calls for human right to legal aid

    2017-09-22T08:55:00Z

    Former justice minister’s report argues individuals are no longer guaranteed reasonable legal assistance as a result of legal aid cuts.