All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1260
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Major third-party funding case fails in House of Lords
A major negligence case that first brought third-party funding into the public eye was struck out by the House of Lords last week at a cost of around £2.5m to the litigation funder. IM Litigation Funding admitted that the cost of losing the case, which it ...
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Celebrity fever
As Obiter reported last week, lawyers spend more on frocks and smocks than almost any other professionals. So all those readers with wardrobes stuffed full of gladrags should get themselves along to the glitzy charity ball being organised by trainee solicitor Kimberley Shields at Laytons in Guildford this month, in ...
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Conveyancing must move toward technological change... Or else
by Timothy Hill, technology policy adviser for the Law SocietyThe recent warning from the British Retail Consortium that high streets could reach a ‘tipping point’, beyond which they will no longer be viable, highlights an important question.
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Clarity on claims
A recent editorial refers to the claims management regulator placing blame for malpractice firmly on solicitors (see [2009] Gazette, 30 July, 10).
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Miners win negligence payouts from solicitors over coal health claims
Injured miners who successfully sued their former solicitors for under-settling coal health compensation claims have won tens of thousands of pounds in settlements, it has emerged. Documents obtained by the Gazette from a law firm that has handled miners’ negligence cases show that a small ...
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Mr Justice Gross to head Commercial Court
Mr Justice Gross has been appointed judge in charge of the Commercial Court with effect from 1 October. He will succeed Mr Justice Andrew Smith, whose term of office comes to an end on 30 September. Gross will have overall responsibility for ...
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CPS criticised by Justice Committee over victims’ rights
Government proclamations that the Crown Prosecution Service is a champion of victims’ rights are ‘a damaging misrepresentation of reality’, a report said this week. The report by the House of Commons Justice Committee praised the CPS for its collaborative working with police, but raised concerns over ...
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Pre-contract discussions: useful, but won’t work in court
Funny things, contracts. They start their lives in a honeymoon of smiles and happy expectation, as the parties individually believe their interests have been buttoned down firmly and fortified with ‘hoops of steel’. But time passes, events happen, and the document is eventually pulled out of a dusty cupboard to ...
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Red-faced letter day
Obiter reported a few months back on the dangers of fingers slipping on keyboards, with our chief typo correspondent David Wershof of Wiseman Lee informing us of an unfortunate client who confused ‘possible’ with pissible’ on his BlackBerry, with tragic consequences. Now the ...
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Diversity distraction
I have just received a questionnaire to complete in connection with the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s equality and diversity study. I am absolutely stunned at its content.
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Putting your foot down
It may not sound quite as adventurous as Mongolia, but Obiter has also heard from another solicitor making a gruelling journey for charity. Gerard Rogers, senior solicitor at Chesterfield Borough Council, has just cycled 950 miles from John O’Groats to Lands End, in 10 days. Rogers tells us that the ...
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Employment
Compensation – Final salary schemes – Unfair dismissal Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd v S Roberts: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Keene, Dyson, Elias): 21 July 2009 The appellant employer ...
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Periodical payments – Proportionality – Variation Hvorostovsky v Hvorostovsky: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Etherton, Mr Justice Bodey): 23 July 2009 The appellant former wife ...
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Law Society's new president will focus on 'the rule of law'
It is an immense privilege to be able to write this piece as the new president of the Law Society. I do so not only with an immeasurable sense of pride, but also in the knowledge that the year ahead will be a considerable challenge.
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The FSA: watching the watchdog
I remember seeing a straggly white-haired academic type vent his spleen on the Financial Services Authority on BBC News a few months ago. The man, an American economist, was energetic in delivering his verdict on how the UK’s City regulator and the Securities and Exchange Commission, its American brother, had ...
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What Lord Justice Jackson’s report left out
In his interim report Lord Justice Jackson gives a number of suggestions, including such ideas as one-way costs shifting in personal injury claims to avoid the necessity for after-the-event insurance.
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Rocky road
It looks like Ewan and Charley had better watch their backs. When it comes to riding around random parts of the globe on a funky mode of transport, there’s a new gig in town. John Eley, an in-house solicitor at Lonza Biologics in Slough (pictured sans sunglasses), and his mate ...
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Belgium in the summertime is the perfect holiday spot (for lawyers, too)
You may think that Belgium is no more than a short and tedious motorway journey to somewhere more interesting. You are wrong.
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Speaking out against injustice
With the myriad of domestic challenges facing the profession at the moment – from economic downturn to the potential impact of the legal aid reforms and the regulatory challenges flowing from the Legal Services Act, it is good to see that the Law Society has not closed its eyes to ...