All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1328
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, April 1980 Letter to the editorWe have rather an eccentric client who recently failed to ...
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Legal profession
Legal advice and funding – Breach – Conditional fee agreements – Reasons Carlo Moise Silvera v (1) Bray Walker Solicitors (a firm) (2) Bevans Bray Walker Ltd (T/A Bevans): CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Pill, Wilson, Richards): 29 ...
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Royal mint?
Everyone knows the Queen never carries cash. And nor, it seems, do other members of the aristocracy. According to a report by the Press Association, London firm Davenport Lyons has apparently issued proceedings against the Duchess of York, claiming that Sarah Ferguson has failed to stump up the readies for ...
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Power in a union
I was dismayed to read the remarks about trade unions attributed to the president of the Law Society when he wrote to the shadow justice secretary inviting a future Conservative government to repeal immediately the Damages-Based Agreements Regulations.
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‘No action needed’ on Quinn Insurance
The Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Law Society have both issued statements reassuring Quinn Insurance policyholders that they do not need to take action after permanent administrators were appointed to the Irish insurer yesterday. The SRA said that the full administration of Quinn under Irish ...
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A conveyancing conundrum that shows the value of high street firms
It’s a long time since I studied land law at university (about 17 years actually), but working as I do in the legal press, sometimes family members expect me to know a bit more about the niceties of conveyancing procedure than I actually do.
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Co-op launches advertising campaign in legal services drive
The Co-operative Group is to launch a fresh campaign to promote its legal services to food shoppers in its 3,000 supermarkets nationwide. The news comes as the group, which aims to be one of the first alternative business structures, told the Gazette that it believes ‘the ...
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In memory of Joanna Agacka-Indecka
Last weekend, I was on one of the beautiful country walks which abound around Brussels when I received a text message from my president, to say that the head of the Polish delegation to the CCBE and president of the Polish Bar Council, Joanna Agacka-Indecka, had been among the victims ...
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Call for opening up of search data
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) has called on the government to consult on legislation requiring local authorities to provide open and free access to property information. In a ‘manifesto’ published last week, CoPSO said councils were arbitrarily restricting access to data and ‘urgent action’ ...
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The crucifix discrimination case was a victory for common sense
by Nikki Duncan, who is based in Bond Pearce’s Plymouth office. She advised the Exeter-based Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital on the claim, which was presented in the tribunal by Thomas Kibling from Matrix Chambers Employers will be drawing comfort this week from a landmark tribunal ...
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Tell your clients why they should choose your legal services
There is another big and complex problem that needs to be dealt with as the legal services market continues to change. Simply put, most clients, the general public and and small- and medium-sized enterprises, don’t know the difference between solicitors, lawyers, barristers and other qualified or non-qualified providers of legal ...
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City partnership promotions unveiled
Major City firms announced a wave of partner promotions today, with 33 lawyers made up across the world. City firm Herbert Smith made up 18 lawyers, including 11 in London and three in Paris. The most promotions were in the firm’s energy practice (4). When the ...
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Coming after Goldman Sachs – and lawyers perhaps?
It looks as though the US’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) are hunting down those they believe to be the architects of the financial crisis. This week, the SEC filed a fraud suit against Goldman Sachs, the recession-defying Wall Street investment bank.
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Interview: John Davidson, legal chief at SABMiller and GC100 chair
Some indicators suggest things are getting better for business. In the UK, one of the casualties of the recession, now Lloyds Banking Group, announced in March that it expects to turn a profit this year; while fellow casualty Royal Bank of Scotland last week received a ratings upgrade from stockbroker ...
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Child’s view holds sway in international abduction case
A six-year-old girl has become the youngest child to have her views influence a court’s decision, in an international child abduction case. In Re W (Children), the Court of Appeal last week refused a father permission to appeal against a High Court ruling which found that ...
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Ending acrimony
Employment disputes must rank alongside family disputes as the most emotional proceedings a person can instigate. Both involve the potential breakdown of a relationship which may have lasted many years (or been expected to do so), and a situation where the loss of trust and confidence may leave a person ...
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Don’t fall foul of Bribery Act, law firms warned
Law firms need to put risk mitigation procedures in place to avoid potential prosecutions under the new Bribery Act arising from corrupt clients, experts have warned. Eoin O’Shea, a partner at City firm LG, said: ‘As with money laundering, firms and practitioners need to be careful ...
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Plans to introduce consumer class actions set to be revived
Specialist litigators have expressed hope that government plans to introduce class actions will be revived after the election.Provisions to introduce consumer class actions against banks were dropped during the pre-election ‘wash-up’ procedure that ensured the Financial Services Bill became law, after the Conservatives raised a raft of concerns.
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Regional administrative courts issue more cases than expected
The new regional administrative courts have issued more cases than expected in their first year of operation, according to figures seen by the Gazette. In April 2009, the Administrative Court began to sit in four regional venues in Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds and Manchester to increase access ...
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CPS slows recruitment of in-house Crown advocates
Figures obtained by the Gazette have revealed a steep decline in the Crown Prosecution Service’s recruitment of in-house Crown advocates as an alternative to self-employed barristers. CPS figures show that the number of Crown advocates in the CPS increased by only nine in 2009/10, to 1,086.