All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1637
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Five years on: progress ‘largely static’ towards LSA nirvana
The Legal Services Act has made little difference to standards in the profession, according to a report released today by the Legal Services Board. The baseline report, published five years since the act, found that indicators such as diversity, quality of service and access to legal ...
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Small Fry
Chris Fry, managing partner of Sheffield firm Unity Law, had a double celebration last week. After receiving his Law Society Excellence award for community investment, Fry had to dash from Old Billingsgate in London to Sheffield where his wife Jackie was going into labour. He made it for the birth ...
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McNally: learning as he goes
Lord McNally’s first speech on legal aid since taking the brief was delivered to the Legal Aid Practitioners Group. Into the lion’s den. McNally wants to move on from LASPO, admitting the bill’s passage was ‘bruising for everyone’. His emollience was welcome; the absence of credible answers to practitioners’ questions ...
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Mental health
Patient – Responsible local social services authority – Residence of patient R (on the application of Sunderland City Council) v South Tyneside Council: Court of Appeal, Civil Division: 9 October 2012 ...
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Motor insurance
Compulsory insurance against third party risks – Liabilities required to be covered Bristol Alliance Limited Partnership v EUI Ltd: Court of Appeal, Civil Division: 11 October 2012 The Court of ...
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Interview: Karen Todner
The Gazette owes Theresa May a debt of thanks for telling parliament when she did that ‘Pentagon hacker’ Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US. Just two days later, his solicitor, Karen Todner, received a standing ovation as she collected the Law Society Gazette Legal Personality of the ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, 28 October 1987 Legal aid: what future? The willingness of legal aid practitioners to co-operate with the introduction of new schemes such as the ‘contingency legal aid fund’ or the ‘fixed costs scheme’ must be tempered by one ...
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Learn from your mistakes
The good ship Legal Ombudsman has been navigating some pretty treacherous waters of late. We have managed to steer past one or two potential rocks – notably the announcement that we will be taking on claims management complaints from next year, and then the publication of the first quarter of ...
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The Magistrate: win tickets
American stage and film actor John Lithgow takes the title role in Arthur Wing Pinero’s fast, furious, brilliantly plotted Victorian farce. With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it’s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only 14. And ...
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Pain in the neck
Do any personal injury lawyers know the identity of this unfortunate woman? If not, you may want to get in touch. For it seems the poor accident victim simply can’t shake off a sore neck. This photo has appeared more than a dozen times in Daily ...
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Citizens Advice can bid for Lottery cash
Citizens Advice bureaux and law centres can bid for a share of £65m promised by the Big Lottery Fund on condition that they prove they can modernise their approach and improve collaboration. Advice providers and community-based organisations will be in contention for the funds if they ...
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Quotas for women: for or against?
For Twitter followers of the EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, it will be clear what has been on her mind recently. From 5 October until the middle of last week, she had tweeted 17 times. Apart from when she was distracted by the award of the Nobel peace prize to ...
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Repeat medical errors fuel NHS legal bill
Errors in maternity care that landed the NHS with a £3.1bn legal bill over 10 years are still being repeated, a new report has warned. The study by the NHS Litigation Authority found there were 5,087 maternity claims between 2000 and 2010. It was the most ...
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Council fined for lawyer’s error
A city council has been fined £120,000 after one of its solicitors sent a series of emails relating to a child protection legal case to the wrong address. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found Stoke-on-Trent Council in serious breach of the Data Protection Act after 11 ...
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ABSs still a minority interest in flat market, says PwC survey
Alternative business structure status remains of interest only to a minority of big firms as a way of building business, according to a long-established annual snapshot. In the Law Firms Survey 2012, compiled by consultancy PwC, 11% of top-100 firms see ABS status as one of ...
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How safe is your data?
It’s time for firms to tackle the rising wave of cybercrime. Cybercrime is with us and it’s a growth area. The attack suffered by LinkedIn earlier this year, when user details and passwords were made public, shows how even those who use the internet as their place of business, and ...
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Contracts and access to justice
Crime and sentencing always make the news. So it is not surprising that the shambles surrounding the court interpreters’ contract and its fallout made headlines. What’s worrying is what this and recent county court changes tell us about the approach that might be taken to forthcoming major civil justice reform. ...
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Grayling promises clampdown on unrecovered legal aid
Wealthy defendants will have their cars seized and sold under a government plan to claw back £10m a year in contributions to legal aid. Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, will today publish a consultation on measures to ensure defendants co-operate with means testing and make ...
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Applied founder blames ‘intimidation’ for court interpreter debacle
The founder of the company at the centre of the court interpreting debacle today blamed ‘intimidation’ and ‘quite horrendous’ threats by interpreters boycotting his company for its failure to meet targets.