All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1259
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Hypothesising the hypothetical director: an unpredictable opponent
Two interesting questions have emerged as relevant since the institution of part 11, chapter 1, sections 260-264 of the Companies Act 2006 (the 2006 act). They concern: (i) whether derivative claims will now have a better prospect of obtaining permission to continue; and (ii) how the courts will approach the ...
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Does the new legal landscape level the playing field for legal execs?
by Diane Burleigh, chief executive of the Institute of Legal Executives More than 60 legal executives have been taken into partnership by their firms, ranging from large international practices to small niche high street and legal aid practices. This ability to appoint the best to the ...
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Front runners
It wasn’t just City pavements which took a pounding as a result of this month’s Standard Chartered City Race; this column also received its own beating from Baker & McKenzie associate Sally Onn, over last week’s remark that no lawyers made it into the top ten in the Standard Chartered ...
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National interest
We read with interest the Benchmarks item on forced marriage protection orders (see [2009] Gazette, 23 July, 19).
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, July 1939 Provincial Meeting, 1939Members attending the [Provincial Meeting in Worthing] will have admission during ...
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Smart money
They say cleanliness is next to godliness. So according to the results of a survey carried out by national dry cleaners, Johnsons Cleaners, lawyers must be pretty close to the Almighty. They are apparently the second most unsullied professionals, only beaten by the uber-spruced financial services workers. An impressively hygienic ...
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Fancy a little law qualification forum shopping?
I am at the American Bar Association (ABA) annual meeting in Chicago. Numbers attending are seriously down, and the ABA faces the same kind of financial squeeze as bars all over the world.
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Commoditisation is for everyone, not just for Susskind
Anyone involved in management at solicitors’ firms should have read or be in the process of reading Richard Susskind’s book, The End of Lawyers?
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Freedom of expression and the UK Supreme Court
It cost £60m to create. Its annual running costs are expected to be £12.3m. And it replaces something that has been running perfectly well for more than 100 years.
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Fox Hayes £1m FSA fine still unpaid
The Financial Services Authority has yet to recover a penny of the £1m fine it levied against collapsed Leeds firm Fox Hayes for its part in a £15m ‘boiler room’ fraud, the Gazette can reveal. The City regulator fined Fox Hayes in February for failing ...
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Information commissioner opens up access to property search data
The information commissioner’s decision to allow free viewing of property search data held by local authorities has sparked fears that unregulated ‘cowboy companies’ will flood the search market. In a guidance note, the commissioner said that because most search data held by local authorities was environmental, ...
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Class actions in employment tribunals called for by government research
Unpublished government research obtained by the Gazette has called for opt-out class actions to be piloted in employment tribunals, so as to deal with the thousands of discrimination and equal pay cases clogging up the system. The report by Lexicon Ltd, whose publication has been delayed ...
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Provision gap in the east after East Anglia law centres close
East Anglia is currently without a single legal aid law centre after Cambridge Law Centre and Huntingdon Law Centre, the only two centres in East Anglia, closed down after their parent charity ceased trading. Advice for Life, the charity that ran both law centres, stopped trading ...
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Civil legal aid contracts delayed by Legal Services Commission
The Legal Services Commission has delayed tendering for civil legal aid contracts by six months, in a move described as a ‘mixed blessing’ by lawyers. The delay means that family solicitors will have to wait longer for the new rules, which will ensure they are paid ...
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A question of authority
I have just read your article on claims management companies (see [2009] Gazette, 30 July 3). I note that Kevin Rousell appears to believe that the majority of CMCs are trying to ‘comply’ with the referral code.
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Crown Prosecution Service does not benefit from an ‘overall vision’
The Crown Prosecution Service must be a depressing place to be at the moment. Criticisms of the way it functions have been coming fast and furious over the past few weeks.
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PII bills to stay flat for big firms, but rise sharply for small
Professional indemnity insurance (PII) premiums for the top 100 law firms look likely to remain flat for 2009/10 despite a slight increase in claims, insurance broker Marsh said today. Insurance bills for small firms, however, are likely to rise significantly. Marsh, which claims it brokes PII ...
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Legal Services Board seeks powers to impose huge fines on regulators
The Legal Services Board could punish the Law Society and other regulators with multi-million-pound fines if they fail to meet its regulatory objectives, under proposals published this week. The plans, which would give the LSB powers to fine the Law Society up to £28m for non-compliance, ...
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What brokers and insurers forecast for the PII renewal deadline
This is the time of year when professional indemnity insurers and brokers start warning solicitors that the market is going to harden and they had better smarten up their act. Get your proposals in nice and early if you want the best deals, has been the message; a message that ...
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Co-op launches legal services promotion campaign
The Co-operative has launched a high-profile campaign to promote its legal services to the 17 million weekly shoppers in its food stores. The campaign, which includes in-store radio, till screen displays and door-to-door leafleting, will last nine weeks and aims to promote awareness of the range ...