All Law Gazette articles in 6 November 2017 – Page 3
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OpinionBrowders in arms
Bill and Joshua Browder - the parent-child combination that changed the law without being lawyers.
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NewsNational Pro Bono Week: legal chiefs thank profession for 'life-changing' help
Law Society president Joe Egan praises lawyers' public service ethos.
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NewsParadise Papers firm Appleby: We've done nothing wrong
Firm says allegations are a ’patchwork quilt of unrelated allegations with a clear political agenda and movement against offshore’.
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OpinionMediation misunderstood
I read with interest John Hyde’s ‘The mediation dilemma’. I retired from private practice in April to focus on my mediation practice. I have seen mediation from two perspectives – that of the solicitor advising his client and then as mediator. I am not sure that some lawyers see the ...
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FeatureIndependents: Starting over
Typified as ‘lean, grown-up and sophisticated’, independent law firms are setting up shop at a record rate.
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OpinionPurple lifeboat holed
The ‘real’ daily rate for a deputy district judge has effectively made the role an expensive hobby. If this continues standards will only fall
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OpinionMore than a public good
Pro bono does not exist in a vacuum – it needs the support of a changing profession.
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NewsGoing underground
Most of your colleagues will have a side project or hobby to help them stay sane when they leave the office. Few will go home and make their own coffin. But Sheffield solicitor John Jones is one such person. And he has applied his considerable skills to advising others how ...
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NewsGet to grips with GDPR rules, in-house lawyers told
Regulations will come into force in May next year.
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NewsReceiving end of a real wigging
It is always dangerous for old fogies to dive in on today’s quarrels, so I will merely dip a toe. The subject is rude judges who undermine young advocates’ confidence to the extent they are reduced to tears and carry the memory with them for days or weeks. First, just ...
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NewsSRA plans register of disciplinary sanctions
Regulatory body steps up rhetoric of providing information and price publication to the public.
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FeatureDiscliplinary proceedings: Defining dishonesty
Ivey v Genting Casinos – why the new test of dishonesty will make no difference to the outcome of disciplinary proceedings.
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NewsFacing the (extremely) critical masses
Obiter was encouraged to learn that the ‘below-the-line’, ever feisty commentators on the Gazette’s website are not wasting their cyber-breath. In fact, their sometimes witty, often acerbic, musings on legal developments are being picked up far beyond the environs of 113 Chancery Lane. Bigwigs from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the ...
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NewsMinister of courts (tennis or law?)
Did you know there was a minister for sport and civil society? Neither did the president of the family division. Listing the alarming number of Whitehall departments responsible for children and families at a Howard League for Penal Reform event last week, Sir James Munby said a recent announcement of ...
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NewsNews focus: Damage limitation for clinical negligence
Claimant lawyers will cry foul, but politicians and civil servants are starting to talk about tort reform to stem the haemorrhaging of cash in clinical negligence actions.
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OpinionCourts are failing children
Sir James Munby is using his final months as family court president to urge radical reform of justice for under-18s.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas
One eye on the top table.
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