All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1261
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Going paperless is easier than you think, and good for your firm
Lawyers can get very hung up on the need to keep paper copies of everything. It’s just not necessary!
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Judicial Office reveals £4.45m budget
The Judicial Office budget for 2009/10 will be £4.45m, the office has revealed in its first ever business plan. The Judicial Office was set up in 2006 to provide administrative support to the Lord Chief Justice and senior judiciary. It also provides training to the 42,000 ...
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Bahrain to open alternative dispute resolution centre
Bahrain is to open an alternative dispute resolution centre to conduct international arbitrations, following an agreement formalised at the Bahrain embassy in London today. Bahrain’s Ministry of Justice signed an operating agreement with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) to establish the Bahrain chamber for dispute ...
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Barnardo’s report claims children wrongly taken into custody
Around 170 children between the ages of 12 and 14 may have been wrongly put behind bars in 2007-08, a report published by children’s charity Barnardo’s claimed today. Government policy states that children aged 14 and younger should only be put into custody if they have ...
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Diary of a redundancy (part one)
‘You’re signed off for four weeks,’ the doctor said. He nodded down at the sick note, one professional to another. ‘May I use the words "anxiety" and "depression"?’
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In marketing once is never enough, as the Co-op model shows
News that the Co-operative has launched a high-profile campaign in its stores to promote its legal services is hardly surprising – given that they have a market of 17 million weekly shoppers. What caught my attention and got me thinking was the fact that the campaign will last nine weeks.
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Money laundering: a review in Europe at last
The European Commission has finally announced its plans for a full review of the impact of the anti-money laundering legislation on the legal profession.
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Estate agencies charging 50% more for HIPs
Home information packs (HIPs) purchased from estate agents can cost 50% more than those bought directly from specialist HIP providers such as law firms and conveyancing practices, new research indicates. On average, HIPs from estate agents cost about £110 more than HIPs from specialist providers, according ...
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Land registry sees 75% drop in income
The Land Registry’s annual report has revealed the impact of the faltering housing market on the government body, with its core business down by 75%. The Land Registry’s annual report published today shows that its income from fees for the year 2008/09 fell to £308m, compared ...
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Stephen Fry’s portrayal of a solicitor is a good advert for the profession
Channel-hopping the other evening I happened upon a programme on ITV in which Stephen Fry plays an affable country solicitor in the picturesque Norfolk town of Market Shipborough.
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SRA announces new Board appointments
The Law Society has announced the members of the new Solicitors Regulation Authority board who will take up their posts on 1 January 2010. The 13 appointments – seven solicitors and six lay members – have been made by an independent panel, chaired by the former ...
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New code of conduct for third-party funders
Self-regulation of third-party litigation funders has moved a step closer after a draft code of conduct was submitted to Lord Justice Jackson (pictured), the Gazette has learned. However, in putting the code to the judge as part of his review of ...
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Data page for August 2009
The data page is the financial rates and data complied for the Law Society Gazette by MoneyFacts Group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. DownloadsDownload the data page for August 2009 below ...
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Building society hit by £41m mortgage fraud
Solicitors and other professionals have been implicated in £41m of mortgage fraud which plunged the mutual Chelsea Building Society deep into the red in the first half, it emerged today. In its interim accounts Chelsea said that the mortgage fraud, perpetrated between 2006 and 2008, involved ...
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ABS 'dominance' could push smaller firms out of market
The advent of alternative business structures (ABSs) could bring about a ‘point of no return’ whereby smaller firms are pushed out of the market by powerful new players, a legal thinktank has claimed. The College of Law’s Legal Services Policy Institute has warned that, by the ...
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Bar Standards Board warning over ABSs
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said it would be ‘wrong’ to allow barristers to join alternative business structures (ABSs) without evidence of whether all forms of the new structure are ‘compatible with the regulatory objectives’ of the Legal Services Act 2007, or necessary for the benefit of consumers. ...
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Advice for Life charity faced pressure from LSC before closure
Advice for Life, the collapsed parent charity of East Anglia’s two law centres, was struggling to repay funds to the Legal Services Commission before it went bust, it has emerged. Advice for Life’s closure caused Cambridge Law Centre and Huntingdon Law Centre to close for good at the end of ...
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Legal aid lacuna
I am struck by the number of letters that you have published recently from various senior officials from the Legal Services Commission attempting to justify their destruction of the legal aid scheme.
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‘Rebalancing’ the legal aid budget
There is, it seems, no letup for criminal practitioners, with the MoJ’s announcement of further fee reductions last week.
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Employed lawyers: another European case
Another day, another case before the European Court of Justice on the practice of law. This one is interesting because it concerns rules that prohibit lawyers who are employed in other functions from being members of the bar.