All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 61
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Co-op ABS will help ‘end advice deserts’
Alternative business structures with national spread such as the Co-operative Legal Services will end the problem of ‘advice deserts’, a senior member of the Legal Services Commission has suggested. Ruth Wayte, the LSC’s director of legal and service development, said she was ‘particularly excited by the Co-op’s client focus’.
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New portal fees threaten access to justice, says Society
Thousands of personal injury solicitors face uncertain futures after the government unveiled plans to slash fees for road traffic accident work.
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Adviser warns on traffic accident portal fees
Major upheaval of the personal injury sector is happening too quickly and without evidence to support it, according to the government’s own adviser on the subject.
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OpinionThe NHS blame game and legal accountability
In the House of Commons, in media studios, in the pages of national newspapers and on Twitter the NHS and its regulator are the subject of a fairly fierce blame game, still spilling over from last week. In summary, did the Care Quality Commission (CQC) cover up hospital failings, did ...
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Acted for Ian Brady in prison application
Who? Corinne Singer, 51, a mental health consultant at virtual national firm Scott-Moncrieff & Associates (Scomo). Why is she in the news? Acted for moors murderer Ian Brady in his application to be moved from Ashworth maximum security hospital back to prison. Singer submitted that, because Brady is not benefiting ...
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Portal protestors issue letter before action
Personal injury lawyers have started a process that could lead to a judicial review into reforms planned for the Road Traffic Accident Portal next April.
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SRA intervenes after solicitor arrested
A solicitor from Cheshire has been suspended from practising after he was arrested on suspicion of fraud. The Solicitors Regulation Authority today intervened to prevent partner Andrew Taylor from practising at his firm in Cheadle. Police confirmed last week that they had arrested a 56-year-old man on suspicion of fraud ...
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Firms still hostile to judicial ambitions
More than half (57%) of solicitors eligible for judicial appointment say that they could not rely on the support of their firms when applying for the bench, according to research to be published by the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), the Gazette can reveal. In contrast, 80% of barristers are confident ...
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NewsAssociation for the Study of Animal Behaviour
ASAB exists to further the understanding of animal behaviour at all educational levels, and to promote research that improves animal welfare and conservation.
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How To: create a shared back-office
Tuckers is a criminal law firm – one of the UK’s largest. We cover practice areas where margins have been severely challenged by changes in public policy and public funding. In February 2012, we announced our intention to make our billing, diary management and other back-office operations available to rival ...
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LETR: business as usual for the bar as report rejects common training
Training for barristers and solicitors is almost certain to remain separate following the Legal Education and Training Review’s rejection of the idea of a common professional course.
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Win tickets to West End play based in PI firm
Britain’s hottest young playwright, Nick Payne, has picked the claims management industry as the subject of his new play, The Same Deep Water as Me, at London’s Donmar Warehouse. The witty and biting portrait of contemporary Britain is set in Scorpion Claims, ‘Luton’s finest personal injury lawyers’, where, apparently a ...
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Feature
BOOK REVIEW You Can’t Read this Book
Author: Nick Cohen Lawyers do not figure highly in the estimation of newspaper columnist Nick Cohen. His broadside at censorship in a liberal age paints solicitors, barristers and judges as the lackeys of oligarchs and snake-oil sellers and conspirators in liberal silence when the going gets tough.
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Tarzan and the briefs
In his heyday, Michael ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine MP was renowned for finding the G-spot of the Conservative Party. This week, Lord Heseltine of Thenford seems to have worked the trick across the political spectrum. Whatever the likelihood of it being implemented, his ‘No Stone Unturned in Pursuit of Growth’ report brought ...
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Bring out your dead
If 200 people in England and Wales dropped dead one week from a mysterious unknown cause, you’d think our supposedly nanny state would learn about it right away.
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Profile
Interview: Helen Broughton
Helen Broughton describes herself as one of Liverpool’s ‘imports’, arriving in the city in 1979 from Blackpool.
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Feature
Could the iPad revolutionise the way law firms do business?
Like several thousand other people, Lee Ranson, managing partner at Eversheds, bought an Apple iPad on 28 May, the day it went on sale. ‘We were converts,’ he says. Unlike many proud early owners, however, he saw the much-talked-about handheld computer not as an executive toy, but as a key ...
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Cold called
To be honest, I knew I was asking for trouble by picking up the phone at teatime. The only calls that come through on that particular landline are from investment advisers or chaps asking for my passwords so they can fix my IT. Sure enough, when I picked up the ...