All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1156
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LawWorks chief awarded CBE
Paul Newdick, a partner at Clyde & Co and chairman of LawWorks, has received a CBE for services to pro bono legal services in the latest Queen's birthday honours.
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More banks could face OFT raids
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) could raid more banks as it widens its investigation into alleged price fixing by Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a competition lawyer has warned. The OFT raided the two banks following a tip-off from Barclays that there was alleged collusion ...
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In-house counsel ready to look beyond hourly fees
TOOLKIT: C&I to offer advice on alternative charging methods In-house counsel are to be encouraged to use ...
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Row, row, row your boat...
It looks like the boys are attempting to go one better than the girls in the endurance rowing stakes. The star of last week's Obiter, Carolyn Kirkham, rowed from London to Paris - but Charlie Marlow, a 26-year-old solicitor from City firm Charles Russell, is attempting to follow in the ...
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Breeding confidence
I am the solicitor quoted in Peter Williamson's piece 'Doing the right thing' (see [2008] Gazette, 12 June, 15). I welcome the openness of his response, as chairman of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), to the spate of criticisms of the ways in which the SRA sometimes conducts its investigation ...
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Building bridges
Lawyers fear the law commission's drive to step outside the courts in housing disputes will undermine the justice system, reports Grania Langdon-Down Aproposal by the Law Commission that a significant number of housing disputes should be transferred from county courts to tribunals prompted such hostility from ...
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Bridging the divide
Inequality in the workplace is unacceptable, but change cannot happen overnight, says Andrew Holroyd The publication of our salary survey led to many headlines, not least in the Gazette, about the pay gap between black and ethnic minority solicitors, and women solicitors and their white male counterparts. While ...
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BSB complaints system streamlined
Barristers will be able to opt to have allegations of professional misconduct handled without a formal hearing under a new streamlined complaints system to be introduced by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). The move is just one of the changes to be made to the bar's complaints and ...
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Law firms target diverse supply chain
A number of top law firms are seeking membership of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK), the not-for-profit organisation that links large private sector businesses with ethnic minority businesses, according to its director Mayank Shah. His comments come after national firm Eversheds became the first law firm to ...
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Family law solicitors 'will gain' from fee changes
The legal aid minister has claimed that family law solicitors will benefit from fee changes that will see barristers' rates cut, in an interview with the Gazette.
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Metropolitan Police documentation charges
Charges for the provision by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) of copy documentation in civil proceedings have been reviewed for 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009.
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Cheap labour
It was with a sense of irony that I read the article in last week's Gazette regarding the pay gap between ethnic minority, female and male solicitors, and the fact that the Law Society has begun a campaign to end the pay differential (see [2008] Gazette, 22 May, 1).
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Men's club
I am writing to respond to the lady whose letter 'cheap labour' was published in last week's Gazette (see [2008] Gazette, 29 May, 11). I am sorry she is disillusioned by the legal profession, but amazed at her naivety. Has this evidently intelligent woman not realised that the legal profession ...
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Legal Complaints Service slams 'unjustified' fine
By Neil Rose The Legal Complaints Service (LCS) has hit back at the decision to fine the Law Society £275,000 ...
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Concern over 'heavy handed' SRA visits
By Anita Rice The president of the Liverpool Law Society is canvassing 366 member firms on the quality of routine ...
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LSC trumpets rise in contract take-up
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) last week claimed that an upturn in the number of criminal legal aid contracts is evidence that practitioners still believe publicly funded work is 'profitable'. A total of 1,799 firms across 2,333 offices have been awarded the 18-month criminal contract, an 8% ...
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Senior judge set to review costs system
The Master of the Rolls is to appoint a senior judge to conduct a root-and-branch review of the costs system, the Gazette has learned.
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Counselling the council
Local authority legal departments run a tight ship but continue to prosper, argues Suzanne Bond