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All Law Gazette articles in 30 October 2017 – Page 4
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OpinionHeavy price of 'efficiency'
One of the reasons why the defence solicitor son of your recent correspondent is ‘paid a pittance’ (letters, 16 October) may be the profession’s lemming-like acceptance of so-called ‘franchising’ and the time-limited criminal contracts in the late 1990s. Such unthinking acceptance eliminated local independence and competition. It ceded effective control ...
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FeatureCivil litigation: a future in dispute
As competitor jurisdictions look to exploit Brexit and costs are squeezed further, lawyers at the Gazette’s latest roundtable reflect on the seemingly permanent revolution in civil litigation work.
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OpinionChain reaction
‘Blockchain deal bodes ill for conveyancers’, the Gazette reported on 16 October. At their own risk, parties can always bypass solicitors and, for example, prepare their own transfer deed, so it is surprising the Gazette devotes space to this. Neil Singer seems not to understand the purpose of land ...
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NewsOpen-and-shut case
Delays in the courts system are nothing new. Indeed, it would probably be more newsworthy if a case actually ran to schedule. So there is a certain symmetry in the discovery that those administering the courts also have a poor track record when it comes to timekeeping. Sniffing out a ...
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FeaturePersonal injury: Foster carers and vicarious liability
Supreme Court reverses decision of the Court of Appeal, deciding that a local authority could be vicariously liable for torts committed by foster carers against children in local authority care.
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NewsNews focus: Conveyancing process faces brick wall
As research shows estate agents eclipsing solicitors in the popularity stakes, the government aims to address the bête noire of homebuying – the lengthy conveyancing process.
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FeatureBrexit taskforce: A progress report on leaving the EU
The Law Society is working hard to place the law and profession in the best possible position whatever the outcome of Brexit.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Why professor Susskind is wrong
What’s To Become of the Legal Profession? - Michael H. Trotter
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Standing in your own two feet
A Straightforward Guide to How to Be a Litigant in Person in the New Legal World – representing yourself in the civil courts, Michael Langford
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NewsBalham, gateway to the sounds
Our series on rocking lawyers has been remiss in not yet mentioning the biggest lineup of them all – the global legal battle of the bands Law Rocks! To date, the initiative has raised nearly £2m for charities around the world. Two big events are coming up this month. On ...
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NewsBrexit patent court stance 'astonishing', says German lawyer who halted the scheme
German lawyer disputes British role in system after Brexit.
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OpinionThe force is against you
I read with sympathy the letter headed ‘Why is my son paid a pittance?’. The answer, however, is very simple: market forces. I am told that when I qualified in 1969 there were about 26,500 practising solicitors in England and Wales. There are now over 140,000 (news, 23 October). Michael ...
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OpinionIt all adds up
With regard to VAT on online property searches, surely any solicitor acquiring such a search will spend time on assessing the search, charge for that time and add VAT on that charge. Perhaps I am over simplifying, but does that not answer all the tribunal judge’s (and HMRC’s) arguments? ...
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OpinionAction for happiness
Too often flexible working policies at law firms are mere window-dressing. That has to change
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