All Feature articles – Page 157
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FeatureWeather Eye
Law firms are in a ‘unique’ position to influence employees, suppliers, clients and policymakers on climate change, according to Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson.
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FeatureHow To: serve your customers
DBS Law recently gained the Customer Service Excellence standard, becoming one of the first private sector organisations to do so.
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FeatureBOOK REVIEW: Brothers in Law and other works
Some readers no doubt went into law inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird, or at least Rumpole
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Mesothelioma Bill
‘One has also to bear in mind that, typically, the worst symptoms of pain, suffering and loss of amenity occur in the last weeks and days of the disease’s progress and that the death… is a horrible one.’(Senior Master Whitaker: Smith v Bolton Copper Limited: Unreported 10 July 2007 QBD) ...
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FeatureBOOK REVIEW: Wildy’s Handbook for Magistrates (3rd edition)
This edition was written in 2011/12, 16 years after the previous edition and 650 years after the Justice of the Peace Act of 1361
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FeatureNice work
More good news on the employment front. If you’re an exceptional leader, capable of leading an independent organisation to deliver (sic) outstanding customer service, the Office for Legal Complaints has the job for you. It is advertising for a chair to replace Elizabeth France. The pay: £52,500 for 60 days ...
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Business rate relief; misconduct in public office
To most people (who, surprisingly to some, include lawyers) occupation of premises connotes actual physical possession of the land in question or its use. But what if a charitable organisation takes a lease of commercial premises and installs one or more Wi-Fi transmitters (each similar in size to domestic broadband ...
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Assessing costs in clinical negligence cases
Clinical negligence practitioners on both the claimant and defendant sides are waiting with bated breath to see how courts will deal with arguments on proportionality.
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The seventh Python
As most fules kno, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a TV comedy series in the 1960s and 1970s that spawned several films and, in 2005, a stage musical called Spamalot. So ingrained is Python in the public consciousness that (according to Wikipedia) questions about it feature in the examination for ...
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Piercing the corporate veil
The unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court in Petrodel Resources Ltd v Prest led to a media circus. Now the dust has settled, we have more clarity on the repercussions of the case for those involved in family and company law.
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FeatureInternational Marketplace Conference: report
London is the global hub for legal services and English law remains the law of choice for business transactions worldwide.
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FeaturePrivate client: pitfalls of using will-writing companies
As a solicitor specialising in private client work, I am becoming increasingly frustrated by attacks on my profession by big businesses muscling into the legal arena
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Private Client: a new quality standard
Last week, Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson formally launched the Society’s new accreditation scheme for wills and inheritance work
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Turkey: challenges for international law firms
Turkey is going through troubled times with anti-government protests - at times involving local lawyers - dominating the headlines since 28 May.
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Privy Council judgment broadens litigation scope
In its recent decision in Crawford Adjusters v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd [2013] UKPC 17, the judicial committee of the Privy Council decided, by a majority of three to two, to depart from the long-established rule confining actions for malicious prosecution of a civil action to a small category ...
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FeatureActed for Angolan man unlawfully killed
Who? Mark Scott, 47, partner at London firm Bhatt Murphy. Why is he in the news? Represented the family of Jimmy Mubenga, a 46-year-old Angolan who an inquest jury found had been unlawfully killed after being restrained by three G4S guards on a BA flight while being deported. In their ...
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FeatureRoundtable: financial mis-selling
Claims by businesses against banks for the alleged mis-selling of complex financial products may yet cost the banks billions
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FeatureCase fee decisions
We all like to complain. There is probably somebody sat nearby in your office complaining about something right now.
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Increased use of Tasers is a potential breach of human rights legislation
The recent Law Society public debate about the use of Tasers and human rights was well timed as there has been a dramatic increase in the use of Tasers across the country, especially on the vulnerable. This needs to be addressed. In Kent, 50% of Taser use is on those ...