All Law Gazette articles in 27 November 2017
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NewsBar to lower standard of proof in disciplinary cases
Bar Standards Board agrees to adopt civil standard in possible harbinger of similar change by SDT.
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NewsMemery Crystal jumps on litigation funding bandwagon
London-based firm teams up with Woodsford to bring cases in mining and energy sectors.
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NewsBaroness Blackstone to chair bar regulator
Labour peer will succeed Sir Andrew Burns at Bar Standards Board in January.
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NewsCommission tells lawyers to prepare for Brexit ground zero
Chair of Law Society’s Brexit taskforce says statement highlights ’absolute need to do a deal’.
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NewsBundle of joy in Court 19
An unexpectedly weighty matter was being heard in the Administrative Court last Friday - 6lbs, 8oz-worth.
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FeatureLitigation – 2017 in review
BPE Solicitors v Hughes-Holland [2017] UKSC 21, a solicitors’ negligence claim, was the Supreme Court’s first opportunity to review the 20-year-old House of Lords SAAMCO principle, which underpins the calculation of loss in professional negligence claims. The court reaffirmed the SAAMCO judgment, referred to by Lord Sumption as ‘one of ...
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OpinionBudget 2017: as you were?
Last week’s budget offered little to lawyers and certainly failed to encourage investment in people.
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NewsLegal aid cuts shown up as false economy - new research
Research published today by the Law Society adds to growing evidence that the government’s legal aid cuts have been a false economy. The research, conducted by Ipsos MORI, shows a statistical link between getting early legal advice and resolving problems sooner. Early advice is defined as within three months of ...
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AnalysisBOOK REVIEW: Data minefield
EU General Data Protection Regulation (A Guide to the New Law) James Castro-Edwards £59.95, Law Society Publishing For those who think the ‘right to erasure’ is about an entitlement to reminisce with some 1980s synth-pop (which indeed should perhaps be enshrined in law), you need to read this ...
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AnalysisBOOK REVIEW: Oil and trouble
Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East Michael Quentin Morton £25, Reaktion Books In this highly readable book, Morton takes us from the mid-19th century to the present day, charting the history of oil in the Middle East (a term, as Morton puts it, ...
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NewsNews focus: what the budget means for solicitors
There were few surprises for solicitors in the budget, with stamp duty land tax and avoidance in the chancellor’s sights. Deep cuts to justice spending went unmentioned
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NewsHungry years at Chancery Lane
New Zealand food parcels arrived at the Law Society more than once
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OpinionCocktail of muddle and delay
Having practised in residential conveyancing for most of my working life, I was recently reminded of just how bad things have become.
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OpinionNo complaints
With regard to the SRA register of disciplinary sanctions, perhaps the regulator would also open a register of all our (very justified) criticisms of its operation.
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ProfileSwati Paul: Ground control
The in-house solicitor of the year tells Jonathan Rayner how she built a ‘novel legal structure’ that benefits all airlines
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NewsSupreme Court ruling on litigants in person could redraw CPR
The Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether litigants in person should be granted special dispensation in a case that could have far-reaching consequences. Former LiP Mark Barton took his appeal to the court last week, arguing he was ill-equipped to understand the Civil Procedure Rules. A successful appeal ...