All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1267
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Memory lane
Looking back on some rather dated advertisements, while we've also managed to pull out a letter that amusingly describes a client's interpretation of lawyer interactions. Law Society’s Gazette, September 1959 ...
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Best value tendering pilot deferred
Tendering for all criminal contracts, including the best value tendering (BVT) pilot process, has been deferred for at least two months, the Legal Services Commission announced today. Tendering for the 2010 criminal contracts was due to begin in October, but the LSC has put the date ...
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Diary of a redundancy (part two)
The train home is weirdly empty: no grim-faced commuters. Home is weird, too. You’ve never before witnessed its weekday rhythm: the sounds of playtime from the primary school, the clink of bottles over the whine of the milkman’s electric float. You’re normally still in London this early in the day, ...
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The right to choose your own lawyer
The European Court of Justice this week decided a case relating to the free choice of lawyers (Case C-199/08, Eschig). The Court overrode a condition in an insurance policy and decided that a European directive granting free choice of lawyers had to be respected regardless of the insurance condition.
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Junior lawyers on community mission to Borneo
The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) has teamed up with volunteering charity Raleigh International to develop a unique annual public service project in Borneo. Junior lawyers from the UK will work with a local community in the south-east Asian island of Borneo on infrastructure projects to build ...
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What is going on at the LSC and the MoJ?
The latest announcement by the Legal Services Commission delaying the tendering process for the new criminal contracts for at least two months probably comes as a relief to many practitioners, particularly those in the best value tendering pilot areas.
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Is Google's Android the best thing since a sliced-up iPhone?
I reckon I've found something better than my BlackBerry. No, really.Since the Gazette got into social media in an increasingly big way, it's been my duty (or pleasure, or bane, depending on the day) to keep an eye on our different media 'channels' and interact with them increasingly regularly.
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LSB rebuffs regulator’s plea for control of board appointments
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has rejected a call from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to wrest ultimate control of SRA board appointments from the Law Society. In its latest consultation on legal services regulation, published today, the umbrella body dilutes an earlier commitment ...
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Women lawyers receive awards
The Association of Women Solicitors has presented ten ‘outstanding’ women solicitors with awards to recognise their excellence in business and people management. The winner of the large firm award was Susan Bright, head of competition at City firm Lovells, who manages a team stretched across ...
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Cyclist makes a splash
Obiter receives quite a few emails about solicitors performing sponsored bike rides and sponsored swims. But this is the first time we have learnt of a lawyer doing both at the same time. David Thomas, a consultant at Bindman & Partners, was happily ...
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MoJ admits personal data breaches
Nearly 2,000 people have had personal information about themselves lost by the Ministry of Justice over the past year, in a series of incidents listed in the department’s accounts, published last week. The disclosure comes after the MoJ faced embarrassment last year when its IT supplier ...
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LSB cost deferral too late to affect PC fee
The Law Society is to offer the Legal Services Board early payment of the amount it must contribute towards the £19.9m setup costs of the board and the Office for Legal Complaints, in return for an early payment discount. The LSB announced last week that ...
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Firms shut down ahead of PII renewal
Law firms of various sizes have begun to close down ahead of the professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewal deadline, with others contemplating closure to avoid paying spiralling PII premiums for the second year running, the Gazette has learned.
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APIL argues Lord Justice Jackson is putting the cart before the horse
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is not given to grandiose gestures, so its decision to walk out of the mediation on extending fixed costs throughout the fast-track is significant.
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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, in an unprecedented move for the organisation. The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has begun a mediation process to produce industry-agreed fixed costs for all ‘fast-track’ road ...
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Novel approach
The route to a career in law has changed a bit since Judith Shepherd, general counsel at Barclays Bank, global retail and commercial, went for her first job interview at a London law firm. ‘The whole interview process has been professionalised,’ she told the young audience at the Black Lawyers ...
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Aspiring judges are quizzed on race
Applicants for judicial office are facing aggressive questioning about their attitudes to race, an approach which has in some cases caused offence, the Gazette has learned. One white male barrister was asked if he was ‘racist’ as an opening question, while another was quizzed about why ...
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Barclays’ group GC Mark Harding discusses business, management and law
As group general counsel at Barclays, Mark Harding is a powerful man about the City. The drama of the last two years has left his company in a strong position: Barclays declined the government’s offers of direct financial assistance, while Royal Bank of Scotland accepted a 70% taxpayer stake and ...
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Whitehall needs to re-examine how best to use intercept evidence
Three young British Muslim would-be suicide bombers were sentenced to life imprisonment this week for plotting to blow up seven airliners over the Atlantic. Directing that they serve minimum terms of up to 40 years, Mr Justice Henriques called the plot the most ‘grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within ...
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Jewellery stores, chocolate bids and phone deals
Sparkling opening: City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse advised jeweller David Morris International on opening four stores in the United Arab Emirates. Life is sweet: Slaughter and May and US firm Shearman & ...