All Law Gazette articles in 27 November 2017 – Page 4
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News
News 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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Analysis
BOOK 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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Analysis
BOOK 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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News
Legal 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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Feature
Litigation – 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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Opinion
Budget 2017: as you were?
Last week’s budget offered little to lawyers and certainly failed to encourage investment in people.
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News
Bundle 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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News
Commission 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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News
Baroness Blackstone to chair bar regulator
Labour peer will succeed Sir Andrew Burns at Bar Standards Board in January.
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News
Memery 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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News
Bar 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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