All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1448
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Government seeks views on equal pay audit plans
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is seeking employment lawyers’ views on proposals that would see employers who fail to comply with equal pay laws required to conduct a pay audit of their company. The BIS consultation, published this week, noted that the gender ...
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BOOK REVIEW Disabled Children: A Legal Handbook
Author: Steve Broach, Luke Clements and Janet Read Disabled children and their families face substantial barriers in their lives – they are financially worse off and have poorer standards of living than families who don’t live with disability, experience ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Hangman’s Fracture
Author: David Crigman David Crigman has been a successful criminal silk for many years but has managed to combine that demanding career with his 'part-time' job as a writer of crime fiction and his latest offering - his fourth ...
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Dodging the bullets
In the wake of James Morton’s column about attacks on judges, Obiter has received correspondence from James S Vickers taking issue with the assertion that the late Ann Goddard was the only judge in living memory to have been attacked in a British court. Vickers ...
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Law firms in cash call to partners
At least five of the top-20 law firms are planning to make a capital call on partners, the Gazette has learned. Mid-tier firms are also seeking to shore up their balance sheets, with at least 15 of the firms in the 20-50 size bracket seeking to ...
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Solicitors start road safety campaign
A Cardiff firm has launched a national road safety campaign. Elisabeth Roth and Liz Phipps, solicitors in the personal injury team at Cardiff firm NewLaw, have spearheaded the Improve Roads, Improve Safety (IRIS) initiative in an attempt to reduce deaths on the road. ...
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Christianity needs more than just ceremonial support
In his letter of 6 May pertaining to the Comment piece by Andrea Minichiello Williams, ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’, Charlie Klendjian does not appear to have as full a grasp of the facts as he claims. First, the Queen, despite her Coronation Oath, has ...
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Foul-mouthed and charitable
Solicitors are often able to make a few bob by swearing oaths. But East Sussex firm Housing Law Services has been raising cash through an altogether different type of swearing. The firm introduced a ‘swear box’ over Lent, and raised ...
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The legal context of FIFA corruption claims
Is FIFA a law unto itself? Jeremy Summers considers the legal context of Lord Triesman’s allegations that FIFA executive members sought bribes in return for backing England’s 2018 World Cup bid Although football will ...
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The law comes first
I read the ‘Comment’ article by Andrea Minichiello Williams. The bottom line has to be that no one should expect to be able to put their own beliefs before the law without consequences. People are, perhaps, arrested, sacked and so ...
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There's still scope for debate on miscarriage of justice compensation
by Dr Michael Naughton, director of the University of Bristol Innocence Project Last week (11 May), the Supreme Court handed down its landmark judgment on what constitutes a ‘miscarriage of justice’ for the purposes of statutory compensation.
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Criminal procedure
Adjournment - Disclosure - Due diligence - Adjournment of trial date R (on the application of Arshad) (claimant) v Southwark Crown Court (defendant) & Mohammed Butt (interested party): DC (Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Kenneth Parker): 5 May 2011 ...
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Deaf to Denning
I was amused to read the Obiter piece of 12 May entitled ‘Running in the family', about the Law Society president’s daughter being admitted to the roll. I too was witnessed being admitted as a solicitor, more than 30 years ago, while my father, Sir John ...
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How to run a defence
Jeffrey Gordon, criminal defence solicitor at EBR Attridge in London, had a busy month in April. Not only did he complete his 60th year in practice, but he was also one of only 18 athletes to finish their 31st London marathon (and, at 77, was ...
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Public sector equality duty
If you want a sombre take on equality then seventeenth-century poet James Shirley is your man. For he reminds us that we all share a certain mortal destiny. And since death will eventually lay ‘his icy hand on kings’ so ‘Sceptre and crown/Must tumble down/And ...
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Pointing the finger at ideologies
In ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’ (28 April), Andrea Minichiello Williams makes the statement, ‘law cannot be divorced from Christianity’, while criticising totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism.
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Ian Tomlinson inquest proves we have moved forwards
Thirty years ago, I was the researcher for an independent inquiry into the death of Blair Peach. It was run by a bright young secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt. The case of Ian Tomlinson brought ...
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Intellectual Property
Broadcasters - Costs capping orders - Deception - Unfair advantage - Trainee solicitors (1) A&E Television Networks LLC (2) AETN UK v Discovery ...