All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1432
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Young women solicitors far outnumber men
Women solicitors significantly outnumber men at the younger end of the profession, according to Law Society research published today. If current trends continue, the profession could comprise more women than men within the next ten years. The Society’s annual statistical report shows ...
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Ilex fast-track route proves popular
More than 270 law graduates have embarked on the Institute of Legal Executives’ (ILEX) fast-track route to becoming a solicitor since its launch in 2009, the Gazette has learned. Some 66 graduates applied for the scheme during the last quarter. ...
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Making the most of law firm mergers
In the last few days we have seen announcements of two mergers: Noble is merging with Wembley and Watford http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/legal-aid-firm-merger-embrace-new-opportunities .
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Making the most of law firm mergers
In the last few days we have seen announcements of two mergers: Noble is merging with Wembley and Watford to create critical mass in the criminal defence market and Weightmans is to merge with Mace and Jones on 1 May.
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Loopy litigants
More or less the first training I had during my articles in the 1950s was the morning rounds of summonses held in the Bear Garden at the Royal Courts of Justice, writes James Morton. Today, everything is probably done electronically, but back then there was ...
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NatWest shame
I am a newly qualified criminal defence solicitor. I write with reference to your recent item on NatWest’s decision effectively to scrap graduate loans. I am one of those solicitors who would not have made it without such financial backing. I came from a comprehensive school, ...
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Riding roughshod over the rules
I read with some interest and no little surprise that it seems that insurers are not disclosing to their policyholders referral arrangements and the level of fees they receive. After the introduction of the Solicitors Code of Conduct in 2007, there was a personal injury conference ...
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Social security
EU nationals - Habitual residence - Indirect discrimination - Justification Galina Patmalniece v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: SC (Lord Hope (deputy president), Justices of the Supreme Court Lord Rodger, Lord Walker, Lady Hale, Lord Brown): 16 ...
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Train of thought
Obiter applauds Helen Molyneux, managing partner and director of New Law Legal in Cardiff, for winning Woman of the Year at the Welsh Women Mean Business Awards this month. Molyneux ditched a partnership with a global law firm to set up the firm in 2004 ...
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Solicitors from Hell ‘abusing court process’, judge finds
The owner of Solicitors from Hell, the website that blacklists law firms and solicitors, has been accused by a High Court judge of abusing the process of the court. In his judgment in the latest decided case against Rick Kordowski, published today, Mr Justice Tugendhat said ...
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APIL launches court action over compensation discount rate
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has alleged that a failure by the justice secretary to review the damages discount rate has led to some claimants being under-compensated by ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’. Launching a judicial review on the issue yesterday, APIL said that ...
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Extend social care to prisoners, report suggests
There is overwhelming support to extend adult social care services to prisoners and the mentally ill, but concerns remain about the resource implications for local authorities, responses to a Law Commission consultation have shown. The Law Commission yesterday published a report analysing the 231 responses it ...
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The current child maintenance system does not work
by Maria Miller MP, minister for work and pensions Thursday 7 April sees the end of our three month consultation period on our green paper reforms ‘Strengthening families, promoting parental responsibility: the future of child maintenance’.
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Insurers are delighted by civil justice reforms
Our online report on the government’s decision to implement Lord Justice Jackson’s headline civil costs recommendations has nourished a little resentment in our readers – mainly aimed at our old friends in the insurance industry. ‘The premise that a "compensation culture" exists has been exposed as ...
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Report shows drop in training contract places
The number of training contracts offered by law firms fell by 18% last year, Law Society figures have shown. The Society’s annual statistical report reveals that only 4,784 training contract places were offered in 2010, compared to 5,809 in 2009. The ...
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Criminal defence teams in Merseyside merger
Two well-known Liverpool firms have merged to create one of the largest criminal defence teams on Merseyside. Criminal law firm RM Broudie and the criminal law team at Jackson & Canter have joined forces to become RM Broudie Jackson & Canter – The Justice Partnership. ...
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International document management
In a globalised environment where legal and regulatory matters can involve corporate subsidiaries spanning multiple jurisdictions, moving data from one country to another in order to respond to these matters can lead to significant legal, political and social challenges. The need to collect, review and produce ...
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The lessons from cases about Italian lawyers’ fees
Silvio Berlusconi thinks he is the most sued man in history. There is another Italian institution which has had its fair share of litigation recently in the EU’s Court of Justice, and that is the Italian legal profession. There was ...
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CML predicts quality scheme will become ‘prerequisite’ for conveyancers
The Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) is expected to become a 'pre-requisite' for membership of lenders' panels once it becomes established, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said today. More than 700 firms have applied to join the quality assurance scheme since it launched in ...