All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1463
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Arbitration
Award - Russian courts - Claimant seeking interest payments in England Yukos Capital SARL v OJSC Rosneft Oil Company: Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Hamblen): 14 June 2011 ...
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Divorce and inherited assets
Earlier this year I provided an update regarding the family courts’ treatment of inherited assets upon divorce. Since then, two of the judgments discussed in that article have been subject to Court of Appeal decisions.
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Axa says no to referral fees
Leading insurer Axa has said it will no longer accept referral fees from personal injury lawyers. The firm, which has 10 million customers in the UK, will no longer take the payments when it puts customers in touch with solicitors at the time of an accident. ...
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Bar Council stands firm on Bellfield trial backlash
The Bar Council has warned that defence lawyers may feel inhibited about taking on high-profile trials that could potentially see them vilified by the media, following coverage of the trial of Levi Bellfield last week. Jeffrey Samuels QC was subjected to a torrent of abuse on ...
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Disability charity mounts court challenge to Jackson reforms
A disability charity has mounted a High Court challenge to oppose government plans to reform ‘no win, no fee’ arrangements. The Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) says ministers have failed to consider properly the impact its proposals will have on the most vulnerable people in society. ...
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Personal injury firms join forces over thalidomide claims
Two leading personal injury firms have joined forces to represent those affected by the drug thalidomide. London firm Leigh Day & Co and national firm Russell Jones & Walker this week launched the Thalidomiders Legal Group to pursue compensation claims on behalf of people in the ...
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Firm fights LSC on client rights
A Merseyside firm has commenced legal proceedings on behalf of two clients challenging the Legal Services Commission’s attempt to restrict their right to choose their own solicitor. In judicial review proceedings, RMNJ claims the LSC acted ‘unlawfully’ by not allowing the clients to choose their own ...
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Human rights committee is making unrealistic demands on extradition
Is it easier for the United States to have a suspect extradited from the United Kingdom than it is for the UK to get someone handed over by the US? Ever since the US-UK extradition treaty was signed in 2003, there have been complaints that ...
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Transport Committee re-opens insurance premiums inquiry
The transport committee has re-opened its inquiry into cost of motor insurance and has called on former justice minister Jack Straw to give oral evidence. Committee chair Louise Ellman, a Labour/Co-operative MP, said Straw’s recently published report on the rising cost of premiums would make a ...
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Failing to investigate complaints can cost thousands
Our business is complaints. Yet I suspect that I was not the only one who spent a fair amount of time poring over the picture revealed by the Legal Services Board’s research into the way lawyers deal with complaints. To ...
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Striking contrast - white-collar militancy
In 1984 I was at secondary school in Wakefield, where the playing fields backed on to a training college for West Yorkshire Police. One afternoon, while meandering reluctantly to rugby practice, I encountered an extraordinary scene. Hundreds of uniformed police ...
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Most courts operating ‘as normal’
Government officials insist that most courts are operating as normal today despite mass industrial action by public sector workers. Thousands of PCS members have staged a one-day walkout which the union claims is the ‘best supported strike we’ve ever had’. The tranquility ...
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A criminal expense
I would like to make a comment in the debate about government legal aid cuts. There should be a distinction between criminal and civil legal aid. To my knowledge, criminal legal aid has always been dealt with differently. ...
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Gazette is media partner for high-profile Law Society debates
The Gazette is pleased to be official media partner for a series of cutting-edge lectures and debates examining key law reform issues in the UK. The Law Society 2011 debate series will initially focus on marriage, privacy laws, super-injunctions and social care. ...
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Student debt mountain a powerful deterrent to university
A survey of qualified lawyers has found that under half would have gone to university today, when aspiring solicitors can expect to wrack up massive debts. Legal recruitment firm Laurence Simons found that the majority of 224 respondents would have baulked at the total cost of ...
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Paper deeds hope
Further to Mr Haworth’s letter of 16 June, I concur entirely with his view. I wrote to the Weymouth Land Registry in March on the topical subject of property fraud and in response to my plea for the return of the humble Land Certificate I ...
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Shaggy dog story
A Cumbrian solicitor is taking on a different type of trial as he leads a world competition later this year. Nigel Davis (pictured) is the chair of the organising committee for the 2011 World Sheepdog Trials being held in September. The event ...
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Opening Dors
Sometimes I wonder how I ever managed to qualify. In those days the Law Society’s College of Law (or was it school in the 1950s?) was in Lancaster Gate. Even in the early morning, the pavement from Lancaster Gate tube ...
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Face up to fraud
I could not agree more with Mr Borman’s letter of 23 June. Clients do ‘want something tangible’ to hold and be able to take pride in property ownership. However I feel there is a bigger issue. ...