All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1174
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Dead man walking
Harry Devlin, criminal solicitor and tireless sleuth, returns in a tale of his own death. In Martin Edwards’ latest Harry Devlin mystery, Waterloo Sunset, we see a fresh foray into a well-worn genre – the lawyer involved in a murder mystery.
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Pension deal
City firm LG advised Universities Superannuation Scheme – the pension scheme for academic staff in the UK, and the second largest fund in the country – on purchasing a 50% share in an investment property portfolio joint venture with Tesco. City firm Berwin Leighton Paisner advised Tesco.
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Rhys Jones fee row threatens trial delay
The solicitor representing the defendant charged with murdering Liverpool schoolboy Rhys Jones has launched judicial review proceedings against the Legal Services Commission (LSC), claiming that the trial has been wrongly classified as a very high cost case (VHCC). Seven defendants are due to go on trial ...
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Eversheds in diversity drive
Top 10 firm Eversheds has piloted a groundbreaking scheme encouraging teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue a career in the legal profession, the Gazette has learned. The national firm has been working with government-appointed Widening Participation Officers (WPOs) based at UK universities tasked with increasing the ...
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Why do women solicitors earn less than men?
When Fiona Fitzgerald, chair of the Association of Women Solicitors, was preparing to launch the joint campaign with the Law Society on equal pay, she first checked her own firm’s record.
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'Firms favour UK trainees'
City University’s law school is telling international students on its law masters programmes to apply for jobs with US firms or go in-house because recruitment practices at English firms favour UK candidates, the Gazette can reveal. Professor Alan Riley, director of the LLM programme at City ...
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Pll providers shun small firms
Small firms renewing their professional indemnity insurance (PII) cover will be further squeezed in an already hardening market after insurers Norwich Union and Liberty cut policies for these practices. Norwich Union, which controls 8.3% of the legal PII market, has stopped offering new cover to firms ...
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Outrageous fortunes
The public need to be convinced that solicitors often offer a cheaper service than other providers. Over the last couple of years, I have become increasingly concerned about the level of fees charged by some new entrants into the legal market.
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Registry fraud payouts soar
The Land Registry is facing a compensation bill up by £5 million on last year because of an increase in fraudulent title registrations. Figures in its annual report, published in August, show the value of claims pending for losses resulting from errors on the register caused ...
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Mental health
Bias – Detention – Hearings – High-security psychiatric hospitals – Mental health review tribunals R (on the application Brown) v South Region Mental Health Review Tribunal: QBD (Admin) (Mrs Justice Dobbs): 13 August 2008 ...
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Human rights
Conditions – Control orders – Freedom of thought, conscience and religion – Deprivation of liberty Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP: QBD (Admin) (Mr Justice Keith): 12 August 2008 The court was required to determine ...
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Personal injury
Football – Future loss – Loss of chance – Loss of earnings – Sportspersons – Wages Benjamin Collett v (1) Gary Smith (2) Middlesbrough Football and Athletics Company (1986) Ltd: QBD (Manchester) (Mrs Justice Swift): 11 August 2008 ...
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Intellectual property
Contracts – Artistic works – Copyright – Film industry – Foreign copyright protection (1) Lucasfilm Ltd (2) Star Wars Productions Ltd (3) Lucasfilm Entertainment Co Ltd v (1) Andrew Ainsworth (2) Shepperton Design Studios Ltd (2008): Ch D (Mr ...
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Married to the job
Love is most definitely all around at Lancashire firm Scott Rees & Co, where two solicitor couples are about to tie the knot. Lawyers Karla Kingston, 29, and Chris Connor, 25 (left) even got engaged on the same day – Saturday 19 July – as colleagues Lucie Illingworth, 26, and ...
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MoJ widens judicial pool
The government has decided that legal executives will not be entitled to sit as judges on the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT), but can apply for other judicial appointments following a consultation earlier this year. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) accepted representations from CAT, the Lord Chief ...
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Short & sweet ruminations on the law
The Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction series is nearing its 200th volume and Raymond Wacks, emeritus professor of law and legal theory at the University of Hong Kong, has been given the challenging task of adding law to a collection which already includes Kafka, De Sade, feminism and the ...
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Thumbs-up for mediation pilot
Employment lawyers have given the thumbs-up to a judicial mediation pilot and called for it to be available in tribunals across England and Wales. Results of a survey carried out by the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) revealed that the majority (78%) of the 123 respondents who ...
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Training need?
I noted with interest the report of ‘shoddy’ phone advice given to bail defendants (see [2008] Gazette, 31 July, 2). I thought the Gazette might like to hear of a case I had recently. A youth client had been arrested for breach of pre-charge bail conditions, ...
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Sitting pretty in pink
The vexed issue of how judges should be attired remains the subject of a colourful debate. So it’s pink! That’s the colour to be worn in court by High Court masters, Family Division district judges, bankruptcy registrars and costs judges when they don their new robes ...