All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1458
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Become a vet, solicitors
For those of us being driven to seek an alternative career might I suggest becoming a veterinary surgeon, a profession probably almost as old as ours. Our poor old terminally ill cat suffered a serious seizure on Bank Holiday Monday. ...
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Better in deed
Oh how I agree with Anthony Shuttleworth that ‘land and charge certificates should be brought back before matters get out of hand’. I suspect that matters are already out of hand, from what I have learned. I am sure details of ...
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It is better to re-engineer the justice system than ‘salami-slice’ the savings that are needed
As we report today, industrial action by members of the PCS union employed by the Ministry of Justice would have a far-reaching effect on the justice system. Participants would have the satisfaction of knowing that the withdrawal of their labour would be expensive for an ...
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DLA Piper boss’s warning for legal sector
The head of global legal giant DLA Piper warned this week that a ‘paradigm shift’ is about to hit the sector. Sir Nigel Knowles (pictured), joint chief executive of the firm, predicted many firms will flounder in the next 10 years after alternative business structures (ABSs) ...
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The notarial profession has a very bright future
On 24 May the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave judgment on the seven cases before it concerning notaries. Fifteen nations were told that it was not possible to restrict work as a notary to their own nationals. Any qualified ...
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Funny business
Death is not normally what you would call a laughing matter, so it is quite brave of a collection of top-notch stand-up comics to agree to perform at an event in aid of Reprieve, the charity that represents defendants on death row in the US. ...
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The Civil Justice Review designed to take the poor out of public courts
Richard White was a civil servant in the Lord Chancellor’s Department who spanned the reigns of Hailsham, Havers and Mackay. He was a bit eccentric, liked beagling and could be severely irascible. But he was committed to access to justice, ...
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False claim
I read with interest Myles Hickey’s complaint about a court returning a claim form on the day of limitation as it was not verified by a statement of truth. Mr Hickey’s argument that a claim form is not in itself a statement of case and that ...
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Colombian government makes human rights a priority
Further to the article ‘Colombian lawyers under threat’ by Jonathan Rayner, I would like to clarify that the government of Colombia is fully committed to the protection of human rights for all and a better judicial system. Contrary to the concept of ‘judicial war’ described in ...
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Legal Services Commission pays out millions in redundancy
The Legal Services Commission will pay out more than £7m in redundancy payments as part of its restructuring programme to cut costs. Replying to a freedom of information act request, the LSC said it had spent £7,196,813 on voluntary and compulsory redundancies between May 2010 and ...
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Who costs most?
We have, within the last week, been consulted by a client who was persuaded as a result of a cold call to make a will incorporating trusts to protect the value of half the matrimonial home from the risk of care home charges. The cost ...
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Freedom of information and datasets
In January, the government announced plans to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoI) to ensure public authorities proactively release data in a way that allows businesses, non-profit organisations and others to reuse it for social and commercial purposes. OpenlyLocal, a local government data ...
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When online fails...
We are told that from next year we must pay our VAT online. I successfully registered myself recently but ‘the system’ rejected my attempt to pay online. So, I sent a cheque! We are told cheques ...
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Fair and swear
Today, for the first time in my life, I had to get a document notarised. It seems that this is a rather grand title for having my signature witnessed by a notary. At least that was all it entailed on this ...
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Feel free to leave, insurers
I write with reference to the attack on the Solicitors Regulation Authority by insurers and the comment ‘Why stay in a market which has been a bloody mess?’. If insurers are forced to leave the market, we might be forced to use an insurance model ...
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Many solicitors remain worryingly ignorant of the Get
A Get is a Jewish divorce document that dissolves the marriage of a Jewish couple. When they marry, there is a single ceremony which combines both the Jewish and civil marriage requirements. Should they divorce, however, two separate divorces are ...
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Solicitors guilty of misconduct
Two solicitors have been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in relation to their handling of alleged internet file-sharing cases. The SDT found that David Gore, a partner at London firm Davenport Lyons, and former partner Brian Miller, were guilty of six ...
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It is illogical but...
Myles Hickey is quite correct in that neither rule 22.1 of the CPR nor the Practice Direction 22 include the claim form itself in the list of documents that need to be verified by a statement of truth. However, paragraph 3.1 of CPR part 2 ...
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Immigration
Asylum - Humanitarian protection grounds - Equivalency principle lFA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: SC (Lord Phillips (president), Lord Hope (deputy president), Justices of the Supreme Court Lord Brown, Lord Kerr, Lord Dyson): 25 May ...