All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1513
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Is gaining the formal qualification of an MBA time and money well spent?
Ask those with MBA after their name what it was like combining high-level studying with a full-time job and they don’t pull any punches - ‘horrendous’, ‘hellish’, ‘think it will be hard and then multiply that 100 times’. But ask are they glad they did it, and the answer is ...
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Immigration
Asylum seeker - Asylum support - Claimant's asylum application and appeal being refused R (on the application of VC and others) v Newcastle City Council; R (on the application of K) v Newcastle City Council: Queen's Bench Division, Divisional ...
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Welsh separation of legal powers ‘inevitable’
Further separation of legal powers between Wales and England is inevitable, leading Welsh academics have told the Gazette, as the Welsh Assembly prepares to launch a year-long consultation on creating a separate legal jurisdiction. They say the devolution process, accelerated by this year’s referendum vote in ...
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Jurisdiction
Practice - Service out of the jurisdiction - Action or contract governed by English law Saad Investments Company Ltd v Al-Sanea: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Walker): 14 October 2011 ...
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Jurisdiction
Claim form - Service - Service out of the jurisdiction SSL International plc and another v TTK LIG Ltd and others: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Mummery, Arden and Stanley Burnton): 19 October 2011 ...
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Jurisdiction
Conflict of laws - Civil and commercial matters Lornamead Acquisitions Ltd v Kaupthing Bank HF: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Gloster): 18 October 2011 The Commercial Court, Queen's ...
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Jurisdiction
Conflict of laws - Challenge to jurisdiction WMS Gaming Inc v B Plus Giocolegale Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Simon): 13 October 2011 Queen's Bench Division (Commercial ...
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Jurisdiction
Court of Appeal - Appeal from Divisional Court - Whether permission to appeal to be granted R (on the application of Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Neuberger (master ...
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Memory lane
Law Society's Gazette, November 1981 Brian’s brief fails to convince Maybe it was the joyous announcement that the future Duke of Cambridge had been conceived, but the Gazette letters page had a light-hearted edge throughout the month. ...
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Secret police?
I have just attended a fine lecture by Professor Peter Camp on the new SRA Handbook. It was a sobering experience. Some of the book’s new elements should give rise to alarm. As we already know, unqualified employees are subject to disciplinary proceedings before the SRA. None of the employees ...
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Trainee redundancies ‘unlawful’
The Law Society is investigating claims that trainee solicitors whose contracts are terminated are being made redundant unlawfully. David Taylor, a partner at London firm Hanne & Co, said the number of redundant trainees seeking advice has risen this year for the first time since 2008. ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Violent disorder - Defendant involved in student protests over tuition fees R v Gilmour: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Cranston, Mr Justice Hickinbottom): 28 October 2011 ...
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Will consumers settle for 'legal advice lite'?
You remember that arcade game where you whacked crocodiles with a mallet? No matter what you did another would pop up - it was as frustrating as it was futile. I imagine running a small law firm must be similarly exasperating right now. The likes of ...
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Give a hand to self-litigants, says CJC
Everything must be done to ‘simplify and demystify’ the law to help the increasing number of self-litigants, according to the Civil Justice Council (CJC). In a report to the lord chancellor and lord chief justice published yesterday the CJC calls for action to assist litigants ...
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What would a law firm run by Darwin do?
If Charles Darwin were alive today, what would he say about the world of Solicitors? As a reminder, Darwin wrote: 'In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.'
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A burning building without any exits
It is difficult to concentrate on anything in Brussels at the moment other than you-know-what. The buzz of the eurozone crisis blocks out other topics.
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Tribunal cases will soar after legal aid cuts, charity warns
Scrapping legal aid for employment advice will increase the number of cases going to employment tribunals, the charity Citizens Advice has warns. Responding to the government’s consultation on promoting economic growth through a strong and efficient labour market, Citizens Advice says removing legal aid for employment ...
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Code for third-party litigation funders gets green light
A code of conduct for third-party funders of litigation has cleared its final hurdle and will be published later this month, the Gazette can report. The voluntary code, drafted by a working party set up by the Civil Justice Council as a means of providing a ...
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Solicitor faces £20,000 bill for not co-operating with regulator
The Legal Ombudsman has won a landmark court case against a solicitor who failed to co-operate with an investigation. Howard Robert Gillespie Young, a solicitor who practised in Bolton, Lancashire for CMG Law, did not provide documents requested by the ombudsman after a complaint was made ...