All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1572
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Flexible working patterns
In the legal profession’s workaholic culture, achieving work/life balance has always been a struggle - and still is. The term ‘work/life balance’ has such negative connotations in private practice that some firms have banned it from their vocabulary. At Ashurst, for example, they refer to ‘work/life fit’. Speaking at the ...
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Solicitor rapped for ‘frustrating’ tribunal
The president of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has backed an employment tribunal’s finding of ‘appalling’ behaviour by a solicitor in a strongly worded judgment.
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Immigration
Deportation - Exclusion of immigrant deemed to be conducive to public good RS (Uganda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Rix, Etherton and Patten): 1 December 2011 ...
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Immigration
Child - Asylum seeker claiming to be a child R (on the application of W) v Croydon London Borough Council and another: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London) (CMG Ockelton sitting as a deputy judge of the High ...
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Police interviewing loophole must be tackled urgently
by Robin Murray, a criminal solicitor and founding partner at Kent firm Robin Murray & Co We thought the offer of access to free and independent legal advice to suspects, prior to police questioning, was automatic under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes. ...
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‘Light touch’ OFR?
In her speech on 19 April announcing the delayed dates for the submission of nominations for the appointment of COLPs and COFAs, SRA executive director Samantha Barrass is reported to have said that in support of the nomination ‘a senior manager from the firm must confirm that the firm has ...
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Private prosecution pioneer opens
A firm thought to be the first private prosecution specialist in Britain opened in London last week to ‘fill a gap in the tackling of economic crime’. Edmonds Marshall McMahon, established as a legal disciplinary practice, will specialise in fraud, counterfeiting, regulatory offences, corporate crime and ...
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Why the overlap?
I note the debate about the future of the Legal Services Board. I remain intrigued and confused. I thought that the Law Society and the Solicitors Regulation Authority represented our professional and regulatory body respectively. Alas, it would seem that this is not the case, ...
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Pole position
The things lawyers do to get their books in the news. Paul Tweed, of Belfast and London firm Johnsons, persuaded a client, the ultra runner Richard Donovan, to read his latest work Privacy and Libel Law: the Clash with Press Freedom at the North Pole. (Tweed represented Donovan in a ...
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Russell Jones & Walker approved as ABS
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has cleared the Australian takeover of top-100 firm Russell Jones & Walker by licensing it as an alternative business structure (ABS), it announced today. RJW, acquired by Slater & Gordon earlier this year, is the fifth ABS firm to be ...
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UK right not to adopt EU justice measure, Lords committee says
European Union laws setting minimum rights for defendants and victims are in the interests of British citizens, but the government was right not to sign up to a Lisbon treaty proposal guaranteeing suspects access to a lawyer, a committee of peers has said. The Lords Justice ...
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Victim of a market-rigging cartel: watch this space
Competition regulators across Europe often rely on whistleblowers to uncover anti-competitive cartels. Often the whistleblowers are the cartelists themselves. But what happens when the self-incriminating statements are then required to be disclosed to the victims of the cartel to support claims for compensation? Since a decision of Europe’s highest court ...
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Solicitor judges get their own network
The Law Society is to create a new membership section - the Solicitor Judges Division - to create a community of solicitor judges. The division, which will be launched at Chancery Lane on 9 May, is intended to provide opportunities for networking and supporting solicitors in their judicial careers, through ...
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Mesothelioma U-turn is a pyrrhic victory
Journalists are sometimes accused of misquoting people (not me, you understand, just in case Lord Justice Leveson is reading). So let me give Jonathan Djanogly an opportunity to be quoted in full, without amendments. Here is the justice minister, speaking in the House of Commons, on ...
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Regulation of will-writers will affect solicitors too
The solicitors’ profession was punching the air in celebration last week when the Legal Services Board announced its intention to finally bring will-writing into the regulatory fold.
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Clarke to announce whiplash curbs
The government will this week set out tougher measures in a bid to cut the number of whiplash claims. Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke and transport secretary Justine Greening will jointly outline plans to reform the diagnosis procedure. In a statement to be made on Wednesday, the ...