All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1182
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Firm breaks new ground by sending PI work to South Africa
Personal injury cases are to be outsourced to South Africa this week in the first trial of its kind, the Gazette has learned. Hertfordshire firm Underwoods has signed a deal with an unnamed practice to test whether road traffic accident (RTA) cases that fall under the ...
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Legal aid despair
As a solicitor still doing some legal aid work while trying to get out of legal aid entirely, I read your Opinion in last week’s Gazette with interest (see [2008] Gazette, 2 October, 8).
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Legal aid a 'cottage industry'
Government policies are creating a ‘cottage industry’ of legal aid provision, with large firms being driven out of the market, solicitors warned this week as a major firm shed its bulk criminal legal aid practice. Hickman & Rose, whose managing partner Jane Hickman is a ...
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Legal aid leads Europe
England and Wales has fewer courts per head of population than Belgium, Ireland or the Russian Federation, but spends at least four times more on legal aid than any other Council of Europe jurisdiction, an official survey reveals this week. The Council’s European Commission for the ...
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Arbitration
Real property – Mining – Coal authority – Compensation – Loss – Subsidence Coal Authority v (1) FW Davidson (2) WE Davidson: QBD (TCC) (Mr Justice Coulson): 9 September 2008. ...
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Reaching a global audience
Hundreds of lawyers and students are fighting injustice as part of the Law Society’s international work. About 18 months ago, the international human rights work of the Law Society was more or less moribund. The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) existed, but had no resources. Its ...
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Call for ban over HIPs
An investigation that exposed home information packs (HIPs) as flawed has prompted calls for insurance-backed personal searches to be banned. Birmingham Trading Standards inspected HIPs at 15 estate agents, randomly selecting six packs for scrutiny. Five contained false or misleading search information. ...
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Rehearsing for the big bang
As the profession prepares for the advent of legal disciplinary partnerships, a balance must be struck between the need for public protection and greater flexibility. The new types of legal firm that we have been talking about for so many years will shortly start to become ...
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Banks silent over client money
Confused solicitors have called on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to clarify what would happen if a bank’s collapse wiped out pooled client money. At the end of September, the FSCS told the Gazette that, as long as solicitors told their bank they were depositing ...
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Claimants are being short-changed
I write in response to your recent news item headlined ‘lawyers blamed for negligence fees rise’ (see [2008] Gazette, 18 September, 2).
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Blue collar
District judges sported their new Betty Jackson-designed robes as they processed from Westminster Abbey to the judges’ breakfast in the Palace of Westminster to mark the opening of the legal year last week. To fit in with their judicial colleagues they wore barristers’ wigs for the occasion, but these will ...
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Two men in a boat
Charles Russell solicitor Charlie Marlow has launched his bid to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic (see [2008] Gazette, 5 June, 8) by winning a race in the stormy waters off Plymouth. Marlow and friend Matthew Mackaness are to row alternate two-hour shifts for the ...
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Personal injury interest calculation
Rodney Nelson-Jones presents his annual update on calculating interest for personal injury claims.
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The case for the defence
As Graham Zellick steps down as chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, he tells of his fears that budget cuts could seriously impede the body’s work. ‘I do not think we feature very much on the radar,’ says Professor Graham Zellick, retiring chairman of the ...
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Litigation cash woe
Increased demand for litigation funding amid the current financial crisis may not be met because backers are taking on more lucrative work, an expert has warned. Hedge funds and private equity houses – which were providing more and more cash to the emerging third-party funding market ...
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Law in a cold climate
In response to our inquiry about solicitors braving the Arctic (see Obiter, 25 September), we have been sent a chilling tale. In fact Alistair Duff, a partner at HBJ Gateley Wareing has a number of stories to tell. It all started in 1987, when Duff, along ...
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Council law teams get commercial
Local authority legal departments are increasingly competing with private firms for public sector work. Earlier this year, one law practice proudly opened new premises in Chelmsford, while another, based in Maidstone, turned in a handsome 24% increase in revenue. Nothing very unusual in that, except ...
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Online complaints plan on hold
Controversial plans to publish complaints against solicitors online have been shelved. In a long-awaited decision, the Legal Complaints Service (LCS) this week said it still favours the idea – but passed responsibility for any scheme to its successor body, which comes into being in 2010.
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Run, corporate restructuring specialists, run
John Potts, Claire Javelea, Paul Williams, Rebecca Warner, Andy Stoneman, Nicola Harnor and Jason Godefroy are some of the staff and clients of corporate restructuring specialists MCR who will be sweating buckets by running – or walking – the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon. ...
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Personal injury: definition of work equipment
Spencer-Franks v Kellogg Brown and Root Limited and others (2008) UK HL46: Lords Hoffmann, Rodger, Carswell, Mance and Neuberger.