All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1440
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BOOK REVIEW Last Orders – The Essential Guide to Your Letter of Wishes
Author: Patricia C Byron Most Probate Solicitors will have encountered at some point the estate with little or no paperwork, the funeral to be arranged with no knowledge of the deceased’s preferences, or a family at loggerheads over the ...
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Lawyers call for mobility scooter insurance changes
Personal injury lawyers have called for a comprehensive review of the Road Traffic Act to ensure mobility scooter riders have to take out insurance cover. Simon O’Loughlin, a partner at Hodges, Jones & Allen, said a sharp rise in scooter riders is inevitable with an ageing ...
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Firms and the funding challenge
Obtaining funding has never been an issue for law firms – until the arrival of the credit crunch. Yet many legal practices seem oblivious to the changing attitudes and requirements of the banks. Every law firm planning to survive the ...
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Clarke urges European Court to have more regard for domestic decisions
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should have greater regard for the decisions of domestic courts, justice secretary Kenneth Clarke told a European ministerial conference today.
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How to manage staff after the removal of the default retirement age
Until 6 April this year, law firms could safely give notice to ‘retire’ employed staff at 65 under the Default Retirement Age (DRA) exemption. Provided they followed the correct statutory retirement process, the retirement would be ‘fair’ with no age discrimination risk. ...
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Law Society condemns Iraqi military attack
The Law Society's human rights committee has condemned an attack by the Iraqi military on Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, during which 34 civilians died and 300 were wounded. Film footage of the 8 April attack shows Iraqi security ...
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Pannone launches ‘white label’ legal services
A Manchester firm has launched a new division to tap into the customer base of major retail, insurance and financial services companies. Pannone is negotiating with several potential partners to join its ‘white label’ legal services division, known as Affinity Solutions, with one unnamed business already ...
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Essential Family Procedure Rules 2010
The law is unchanged. Therefore so is the terminology taken from the primary legislation, whatever relabelling the procedural changes purport to make. For example, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 section 1 speaks of ‘petitions for divorce’. In the Family Procedure Rules ...
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Equality Act will pressure authorities to listen
Passed in the final days of the last government, the Equality Act 2010 (EA) is largely a consolidating measure. It updates private law remedies that challenge discrimination in the workplace, in the education system, or when someone buys, receives, or is denied a service on ...
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Law actors must recognise the threat of jurors misusing new technologies
The lord chief justice will take no pleasure in being reminded of his perspicacity after ...
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Administrative law
Licensing - Local government - Irrationality - Legitimate expectation Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences (Appellant) v Albert Court Residents Association and Ors (Respondents) and Westminster City Council (Additional Party): Westminster City Council (Appellant) v Albert Court ...
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Complaints pour in on lenders' panel advice
Law firms are suffering financial loss because lenders are incorrectly advising clients that they cannot use their own solicitor for conveyancing and mortgage work, the Law Society has warned. Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson said Chancery Lane had received a stack of complaints from firms ...
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Is age discrimination rife in the legal profession?
Age discrimination is not what it used to be. I think. The problem is I don’t so much get senior moments these days as senior minutes, hours, even weeks, and it may be that I’m misremembering, to quote someone whose name is ...
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Privacy law, not injunctions, should be on press's agenda
The press worked itself up into a predictable lather of self-righteousness last week as editors saw their circulation figures threatened by privacy laws. Firmly in their sights were what they called ‘super-injunctions’ - although an injunction whose existence may be reported is no more a ...
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Careful George, he’s tooled up
Watching an old episode of The Sweeney on television last week, I was struck by how much rhyming slang – much of it politically incorrect – was used. Who now would dare or wish to say ‘bubble’ or ‘lemonade’ in their homes, let alone on ...
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MoJ could face judicial review challenge over civil cost reforms
Charitable group the Public Law Project (PLP) has threatened to launch a legal challenge to the Ministry of Justice’s civil costs and funding reforms. London firm Leigh Day & Co has sent a letter before action to the justice secretary Ken Clark on behalf of the ...
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MoJ ends training subsidy for Chinese lawyers
The Ministry of Justice has put an end to a £370,000 annual subsidy paid out for the last 20 years to help train Chinese lawyers. The Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme was aimed at engaging with young Chinese lawyers to improve their understanding of the English legal ...
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Comparing lawyers with doctors proves maturity of profession
by Jonathan Goldsmith, secretary general of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe There was fuss and nonsense in the press recently about the growing number of solicitors.
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Juror ‘contempt’ over Facebook contact
A juror who allegedly contacted a defendant through Facebook during a trial could face jail for contempt of court. Attorney general Dominic Grieve QC has applied to the High Court for permission to pursue contempt proceedings against juror Joanne Maria Fraill, who is alleged to have ...