All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1171
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Costs warning to solicitors over terminating retainers
A solicitor should not terminate his retainer because he disagrees with the client’s legitimate instructions, the High Court ruled last week.
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Libel success fees decision
The government has decided not to push ahead with imposing fixed recoverable success fees and capped recoverability on after-the-event insurance (ATE) premiums in defamation and privacy cases. After eight months of waiting for an announcement following its defamation consultation last year, the government has opted to ...
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Learning by degrees
Retired solicitor Robert Benjamin, 82, has finally finished his university degree more than 60 years after being forced to abandon his studies because he was conscripted to work in Britain’s mines during World War Two. The former Bevin Boy, as the mining conscripts were known, graduated ...
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Supply and demand
For some years now the number of LPC passes (first sitting and after re-sitting) has been around 6,000 each year, while the number of training contracts signed has also been around 6,000. There is some slippage, which probably amounts to a few hundred not finding a training contract and, of ...
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Employment
Automatically unfair dismissal – Completion – Delay - Disability discrimination - Completion of statutory procedure M Selvarajan v S Wilmot & Ors: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Wilson, Stanley Burnton): 23 July 2008 ...
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The rise in equine law
With riding an increasingly popular pastime there is a growing demand for equine lawyers to advise horse owners, both private and commercial. Around £4bn a year is spent on horses in Britain, according ...
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Family law
Allocation of jurisdiction – Consent - Habitual residence - Parental responsibility Mark Ian Bush v Neena Bush: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Lawrence Collins, Rimer): 24 July 2008 ...
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Lawyers targeted in insurance fraud fight
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) and Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) are planning a joint crackdown on criminal gangs and solicitors involved in fraudulent insurance scams, the Gazette can reveal. The IFB and APIL have held talks with a view to thrashing out an information-sharing ...
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Reality warning for 'optimistic' firms
Experts have warned small firms not to be ‘blind to reality’ after a new survey indicated the vast majority have no intention of cutting spending over the next six months – despite turbulent economic conditions. More than a quarter (27%) of UK firms with three to ...
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Public guardian to order LPA review
A fifth of applications to register a lasting power of attorney (LPA) contain mistakes that render them invalid or prevent registration, the new public guardian has told the Gazette. Martin John, who was appointed in June, said ‘about 20% of applications have real issues’ and announced ...
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Opportunity knocks
A ten-strong team at Sheffield-based solicitors Watson Esam swapped legal briefs for chasing fish in penguin suits as they raised £750 in the fun-filled It’s a Knockout competition. The obstacle event, held at Totley Primary School in Sheffield, raised £8,000 for St Luke’s Hospice. Senior partner Jay Bhayani enthused: ‘We ...
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Mosley’s win: a slightly larger private world
The implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated into UK law article 8, guaranteeing the right to respect for private and family life, and its arch rival article 10, protecting the right to freedom of expression. Max Mosley’s hotly contested privacy action was the battlefield for the latest high-profile ...
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Lasting power to the people?
More often than not, government, public bodies and other authorities appear to be opposed to revising, or repealing, new legislation that has been hugely unpopular or problematic – no matter what. So it is a refreshing change to hear that the new public guardian, Martin ...
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A suspect package
The ‘telecoms package’ is a potentially dangerous piece of legislation that will lead to many users losing internet access. The ‘telecoms package’ is winging its way through the European Parliament under the watchful eye of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Our representatives ...
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Peak practice
This week it is solicitors on foot – and at all altitudes too. A team of six from regional firm Geldards scaled the three tallest peaks in the UK – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon – and came home first with a time of 23 hours and 29 minutes. ...
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Rules & revolution
How extraordinary that the chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority should state, in relation to non-lawyer managers, ‘there is little regulatory sense in requiring, for example, those who have worked within firms and already have a detailed understanding of the accounts rules to go on a prescriptive course'. (see ...
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Sentencing
Human rights – Penology and Criminology – Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment – Life imprisonment R v David Francis Bieber (AKA Coleman): CA (Crim Div) (Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Mr Justice Pitchford, Mrs Justice ...
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Plan of action
An assessment of Whitehall’s latest attempt to reform planning law, which features a controversial ‘one-stop-shop’ consent regime After several years wrestling with the question of developing a suitable regime to speed up the delivery of major infrastructure, the government has finally brought forward its proposals ...
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Legal action in the world of education
Solicitors play a major role on both sides when it comes to securing places in schools for children with special needs. For a section of the media, litigation against colleges, schools and universities has in recent years become another frontier of the so-called compensation culture. ...