All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1265
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HIP protection
Your recent online story ‘Estate agencies charging 50% more for HIPs’, based on a survey by Which?, raises some important issues. But the results must be viewed in the correct context.
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Personal injury
Contract terms – Disclosure – Miners – Vibration white finger Brian Strydom v Vendside Ltd: QBD (Mr Justice Blair): 18 August 2009 The appellant (S) appealed against a decision dismissing ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, September 1939 [Britain declared war on Germany 70 years ago today. To prevent the Roll ...
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Negligence
Asbestos – Breach of duty of care – Contractors Corus UK Ltd v (1) Cavendish (UK) Ltd (2) Cavendish Laboratories Ltd (3) Woods Building Services Ltd: QBD (Mr Justice Foskett): 7 August 2009 ...
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Purdy and propriety
It was entirely right to include a full review of the recent decision in Purdy v DPP (see [2009] Gazette, 20 August, 10). The Gazette's choice of Ms Purdy's solicitor Saimo Chahal as the author was no doubt reasonable.
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Tall (or not) story
They are among life’s great imponderables. Does God exist? Does a falling tree make any sound if there is no one there to hear it? Does humour have a place in legal services? This last question has been the subject of some debate in the ...
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Pakistan must take steps to ensure judicial independence, says IBA
Flawed judicial appointments processes, shortcomings in court infrastructure and a lack of training for legal professionals are hindering the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan, a report by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute has warned. The report said that the reinstatement of Pakistan’s ...
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New EU term begins – what’s on the agenda
The summer break is over. Newly elected MEPs are beginning to meet, and the policy machine is grinding into action once again. So, what is on the agenda generally, and for lawyers in particular?
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Chancery Lane attacks 'deeply flawed' MoJ legal aid proposals
The Law Society has called on the Ministry of Justice to clarify its ‘incoherent’ and ‘deeply flawed’ consultation on criminal legal aid cuts. In a hard-hitting letter to legal aid minister Lord Bach, Law Society president Robert Heslett said the vagueness and uncertainty of the paper ...
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Solicitors sign referral deal with financial advisers
Solicitors and independent financial advisers (IFAs) have entered into a nationwide tie-up in order to benefit from the relaxation of the rules on partnerships between lawyers and non-lawyers. Some 600 law firm members of the 360 Legal Group will be given access to 1,700 IFA members ...
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Deals delight but the recession isn't over yet
Boom! Bang! We’re a week away from the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, and the big guns are beginning to fire again in quick succession. In the space of just two days, we have a huge deal announced in the food sector (Kraft trying and failing to buy ...
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Football fans – law-abiding pariahs
The erosion of liberty is especially insidious because it happens by barely perceptible degrees. As a resident of Edinburgh, I was always able to park in the wide streets surrounding the city’s lovely Botanical Gardens for nothing (congestion is not and never has been a problem). No longer. Now you ...
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Solicitors hand back £1.5m to miners under voluntary scheme
Solicitors have handed back more than £1.5m to injured former miners under a new voluntary repayment scheme after wrongly deducting fees from miners’ government compensation awards – and this figure could rise further as the project rolls on, the Gazette can reveal.
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£26k for a bunch of flowers
Pretty, isn’t it? Well, at £26,000, it ought to be. This floral design, which would not look out of place on a pair of Laura Ashley curtains, is the official emblem of the Supreme Court, and incorporates an English rose, some Welsh leek leaves, a Scots thistle and a northern ...
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Supreme Court emblems cost taxpayer £50k
The Treasury’s coffers may presently echo to the ghostly rustle of rolling tumbleweed, but no expense has been spared for Britain’s new Supreme Court. Taxpayers have paid nearly £50,000 for the design of not one but two emblems for the institution, a freedom of information request has revealed. ...
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Chancery Lane backs ABS advice subsidies
The Law Society has said new providers entering the market as alternative business structures (ABSs) should be obliged to offer financial support to existing law firms to safeguard access to justice. In its response to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s consultation on ABSs, Chancery Lane warned ...
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Going it alone
Christina Blacklaws describes the potential feelings of isolation some lawyers working from home in virtual law firms can experience (see [2009] Gazette, 20 August, 5).
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APIL walks out of fixed-fee talks
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has walked out of talks on extending fixed costs in personal injury cases, the Gazette has learned. In an unprecedented move for the organisation, APIL has withdrawn from talks on extending fixed costs for all ‘fast track’ cases.
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Freezing assets of ‘terrorists’ – how fair is the UN sanctions committee?
The attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 brought many changes to the legal landscape, of which three facets are perhaps most familiar to legal practitioners: criminal trials of suspected terrorists; control orders imposed on those suspected of terrorist activity; and the extradition of terrorist suspects to other countries, ...