All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1626
-
News
Commercial
Sale of goods – Passing of property – Set-off – Right of set-off FG Wilson (Engineering) Ltd v John Holt & Company (Liverpool) Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Popplewell): 6 September 2012 ...
-
News
Drafting a constitution
At the heart of any failed state is a constitution that is not performing – either because the balances its drafters struck between competing demands on the document were wrong, or because the machinery, will and resources to make it work are woefully inadequate.
-
News
Mutiny on Merseyside over weekend courts
The Ministry of Justice has denied reports it has ditched or delayed plans to open courts at weekends. But the ...
-
News
Weekend courts - unworkable and unnecessary
It can only be a matter of time before the Ministry of Justice admits that plans to extend weekend court sittings are unworkable, unnecessary and impractical, and ditches them.
-
News
European Union
Directives - Interpretation - Medicinal products Fabio Caronna C-7/11: Court of Justice of the European Communities (Second Chamber): Judges Cunha Rodrigues (president of the chamber), Lõhmus (rapporteur), Rosas, Ó Caoimh, Arabadjiev: 28 June 2012 ...
-
News
LCJ voices new fears over rise in litigants in person
The lord chief justice today expressed concerns that litigants in person will increase further when legal aid cuts come into force next year.
-
News
Legal profession is finally getting to grips with technology
It surprises me that technology has taken so long to be a profound influence on the legal profession and its work. After all, we have been using mobile phones and email for over 20 years, and all the rest – iPads, smartphones, online selling – have followed in its wake. ...
-
News
Immigration
Education - Grant for study - Eligibility R (on the application of Arogundade) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills: QBD (Admin) (Mr Robin Purchas QC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge)): 7 September 2012 ...
-
News
Too much information
Obiter just adores the chance to put on a posh frock and head to west London to channel some of the old glamour of Belle Epoque – everyone in a ballroom so elegant, amusing, refined and fragrant. Thrilling, then, to be invited to the Commerce ...
-
News
Judge speaks out on pensions
A solicitor judge unhappy with pension reforms has warned lawyer colleagues to ‘think carefully’ before ‘burning their bridges’ in private practice to join the bench. In a letter to the Gazette published today the judge, whose name is withheld on request, says they ‘no longer feel ...
-
News
Warnings needed on ‘redesigned’ judicial pension scheme
I am a salaried judge of the First-tier Tax Tribunal and a solicitor. It is a matter of common knowledge that the judicial pension scheme is currently being ‘redesigned’. The leaflet published by the Judicial Appointments Commission in connection with the pension scheme reform (which was highlighted in your recent ...
-
News
Plying their trade
Obiter is a big fan of the Manchester PI firm Express Solicitors, which has a penchant for curious publicity stunts. Earlier this year a snapper caught embarrassed staff posing somewhat redundantly next to a large train (an Express train, geddit?). Now we have this, designed to ...
-
News
Will-writing should be reserved, super-regulator recommends
Will-writing, estate administration and probate should only be carried out by regulated legal professionals to give greater protection to consumers, the Legal Services Board has proposed. Following a consultation, the board said today that it will recommend to the lord chancellor that the services should be ...
-
News
Top 25 firms 'eclipsed' in growth figures
Law firms outside the top 25 in the UK are growing at a faster rate than those inside the top 25, new figures have revealed. Research by Deloitte into the first quarter of 2012/13 found firms between 26 and 50 grew fee income by 4.5%, whilst ...
-
News
Court of Appeal ruling in 'whistleblowing' case
Members of limited liability partnerships are not ‘workers’ under employment legislation, the Court of Appeal ruled this week dismissing a whistleblowing claim made against City firm Clyde & Co. English qualified solicitor Krista Bates van Winkelhof alleged that she had been sacked by the firm in 2011, after she made ...