All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1566
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Serve deaf clients better 'or face claims'
Law firms could face unlimited discrimination claims from deaf and hard of hearing people if they continue failing to make ‘reasonable adjustments’, consumer watchdogs have warned.
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Lawyer foot soldiers of the Big Society need a state-maintained road to march on
This week chancellor George Osborne received a bloody nose from charities which estimate their finances will be hard hit by his decision to place a cap on tax relief for charitable donations. His move may or may not be right in principle. But as with ...
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BOOK REVIEW Good Governance for Pension Schemes
Author: Paul Thornton and Donald Fleming This book is the first to combine an overview of UK pension schemes in their economic and legal contexts with a focus on the governance role of trustees. To the general reader of ...
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Law firm is business loan pioneer
An East Anglian high street firm is one of the first businesses in the country to secure a loan through a new government-backed financing scheme. Tees Solicitors, which has six offices across four counties, has obtained £2m from Barclays under the National Loan Guarantee Scheme announced ...
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Hundreds of CMCs ‘cancelled’ by MoJ
The Ministry of Justice has closed down about one in five claims management companies in the past year, according to figures obtained by the Gazette. A freedom of information request to the MoJ’s Claims Management Regulation department has revealed that 734 businesses were ‘cancelled’ in ...
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Grieve: interpreter failure ‘not contempt’
The attorney general has declined a request to launch an action for contempt against a contractor accused of failing to supply court interpreters - but said that wasted costs orders could apply to such cases.
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Defence firms should make the move to digital working
by Peter Lewis, head of the CJS Efficiency Programme The government has committed to providing a simpler, swifter and more transparent criminal justice service and, as part of this, the core agencies of the criminal justice system (CJS) have committed to ‘going digital’.
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Winner dinner
Chancery Lane commercial partner Hiscox is inviting you to enter its Law Society exclusive prize draw to win a private dinner party. The winning Society member and five guests will be treated to a four-course meal prepared by an expert chef in the winner’s home. To enter you need ...
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Divorce mediation scheme ‘failing’
Courts are not checking whether divorcing couples have attended meetings to explore mediation and other alternatives before applying to start court proceedings, a survey has found. For the past year, parties have been required to attend mediation assessment and information meetings (MIAMs) to find out ...
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OFT door still open on HSBC panel investigation
The Law Society has responded robustly to last week’s suggestion that the Office of Fair Trading will not investigate HSBC over the small size of its conveyancing panel. Sole practitioner Elaine McGloin had complained that the lender’s action restricted freedom of consumer choice and was anti-competitive, but the watchdog told ...
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Dress pass
Even in these casual days, turning up in court inappropriately attired remains the stuff of solicitors’ nightmares. Kevan Lines, of Abertillery firm Lewis & Lines, recalls a ghastly incident a couple of years ago (before the firm gave up publicly funded criminal work). ‘I was phoned by a legal adviser ...
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ET or not ET? That is the question
When an employment lawyer dies it must be tempting for those left behind to draw upon the career of the deceased when considering an inscription for the tombstone. Some may aspire to the simple phrase: ‘He lived as he died; scandalous, vexatious and with no reasonable prospect of success.’ For ...
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Obligations first
Articles entitled ‘Some "rights" have limitations appear when a system of law espouses a doctrine of rights that has no, or at best an attenuated, concept of obligations as the correlative of rights. As Immanuel Kant explained during the Enlightenment and Onora O’Neill outlined more recently in her Reith Lectures ...
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Gap in the market
We are in a period of profound change. Last month saw the culmination of the ambitions of legislators to liberalise the legal market with the approval of the first SRA-licensed alternative business structures. Their introduction heralds a major restructuring of the way in which legal services will be delivered in ...
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Greed is not good
‘New York has nothing to fear from alternative business structures’, says the Law Society president. As a solicitor who retired about 10 years ago, I wish to express my astonishment at that statement. Mr Wotton has a short memory concerning the so-called liberalisation of the ...
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Personal injury
Damages - Discount made for future pecuniary loss Simon v Helmot: Privy Council (Lords Hope, Brown, Clarke, Dyson, Lady Hale): 7 March 2012 Privy Council: In dismissing an appeal ...
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The Leveson Inquiry
The government announced plans last month to bring an end to the use of wild animals in travelling circuses in England. Great news for animal lovers concerned by the risk of mistreatment and cruelty to animals. But will it herald the demise of this unique entertainment event? If so, help ...