All Law Gazette articles in 3 April 2017 – Page 3

  • Oliver Hanmer
    News

    Bar kicks off alternative business structure licensing

    2017-04-03T12:29:00Z

    General Council of the Bar becomes fifth regulator allowed to approve non lawyer owned firms. 

  • Rachel rothwelluse
    Opinion

    Should hospital receptionists owe a duty to patients?

    2017-04-03T11:19:00Z

    Court of Appeal grapples with potentially far-reaching issue. 

  • News

    Ukraine judged to have inadequate defence in $3bn Russian debt claim

    2017-04-03T10:12:00Z

    Mr Justice Blair denies defence bid in case seen as tester for English courts’ clout.

  • Robert bourns
    Opinion

    Working for you

    3 April 2017

    I want your Law Society to be in the best position to promote and support members

  • Joshua Rozenberg
    Opinion

    Transfer window

    3 April 2017

    Brexit should shift power from Brussels to Westminster – not Whitehall

  • May
    News

    Signing off

    3 April 2017

    Prime minister Theresa May signs a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk announcing, in accordance with article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the UK’s intention to withdraw from the EU. The government also published its proposals for a Great Repeal Bill, which would repeal the European Communities ...

  • Opinion

    ​Secret shame

    3 April 2017

    As Clive Stafford Smith so vividly demonstrates (‘Secrets and lies’, 27 March), a closed material proceeding is the antithesis of justice.

  • Opinion

    ​Monitoring for signs of stress?

    3 April 2017

    I have become concerned by cases involving friends and former colleagues who appeared to have burnt out and suffered breakdowns.

  • Law Society
    Feature

    Society spotlight: Mentoring scheme

    3 April 2017

    As the Law Society’s mentoring scheme opens to new applications, Eduardo Reyes looks at different models and their benefits

  • News

    Lady Justice Macur is senior presiding judge

    3 April 2017

    Lady Justice Macur takes up the post of senior presiding judge with effect from today following the appointment of Lord Justice Fulford as investigatory powers commissioner. Julia Macur was called to the bar in 1979. 

  • Vellum
    News

    Is it worth the vellum it’s written on?

    3 April 2017

    Obiter must confess to being party to a small breach of parliamentary privilege when we reported a year ago on a reprieve for the practice of printing copies of acts of parliament on vellum.

  • Liz truss pudding
    News

    Food for thought

    3 April 2017

    Liz Truss is having a hard time persuading members of the profession – and the wider chattering classes – that she is up to the job of lord chancellor. ‘If she is to be taken seriously in the post she needs to be sharper and better briefed,’ The Times’ leader ...

  • Ryan Giggs, in his divorce from Stacey Giggs
    Feature

    Privacy and financial remedy proceedings

    3 April 2017

    Ryan Giggs, in his divorce from Stacey Giggs, is the latest high-profile individual to seek press reporting restrictions in respect of financial remedy proceedings in the family court. 

  • Opinion

    ​SRA should reopen its doors

    3 April 2017

    Regulator’s decision to exclude public and press from meetings removes vital check and balance on the powers of a tax-raising body

  • Expert
    News

    Fairground distraction

    3 April 2017

    Experts may not be all they seem. In Hooten v Mississippi (1986) the defence called Marie B. Hill – who said she had given evidence in around 300 cases in Mississippi – as an expert witness, to show crucial handwriting was not that of Hooten.

  • Trusssep
    News

    Six weeks to plead on PI discount rate

    3 April 2017

    Lord chancellor offered comfort to claimant lawyers by saying victims should be paid damages that compensate them ‘fully’.

  • Online learning2
    Feature

    Developing picture

    3 April 2017

    Solicitors no longer have to count their CPD hours. Grania Langdon-Down reports on how this is affecting training and shaping the market for providers

  • brexit consequences
    Opinion

    Stumbling in the dark

    3 April 2017

    Ministers need the goodwill of the UK’s endlessly traduced lawyers

  • Vanessa Crawley
    Profile

    My legal life: Vanessa Crawley

    3 April 2017

    Corporate solicitor, SA Law, St Albans

  • Opinion

    ​Sitting pretty in court

    3 April 2017

    John Miller’s letter (13 March) reminds me of my own first day in court.