Features – Page 76
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Employment tribunals
Oddly, I am both young enough and old enough to remember the ‘@’symbol on a typewriter being redundant. The days of calculating ‘8 apples @2d each’ were long past, and yet we remained in an age when the headmaster of my school banned me from taking typing lessons on the ...
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Case management and evidence
Changes were made to this on 1 April in parts 3, 16-19, of the Civil Procedure Rules, including: 1. It should be more robust, and wherever possible multi-track cases should be case-managed by the same judge throughout (docketing)(not in the rules but guidance given to judges). 2. Replacement of the ...
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Bribery Act: ‘facilitation payments’
The ‘Star Chamber’, a somewhat sinister-sounding governmental group tasked with reducing bureaucracy, is to carry out a review of the Bribery Act 2010 with a view to examining facilitation payments.
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‘Fast track’ to probate in Jersey
Did your client die domiciled in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey or the Isle of Man with an asset in Jersey? Has a Grant of Representation been issued in the deceased’s country of domicile?
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How To: turn your firm around
Five years into the downturn, there seems no end in sight to the economic gloom. As many have already said, we are living in an age of the ‘new norm’. Every week or so, yet another law firm goes to the wall or undergoes an intervention by the Solicitors Regulation ...
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Trademarks in toys and games – part one
A recent High Court judgment concerning the Scrabble ‘tile’ trademark highlights the tension between trademarks and the functional elements of toys and games.
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Extradition: emerging pilot judgments
The European Arrest Warrant (EAW), introduced in 2003 to expedite the extradition of suspects accused or convicted of criminal offences within EU member states, has been fiercely criticised during its short life.
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Advising small businesses
Last week the Legal Services Board published research into the legal needs of small businesses (tinyurl.com/omgmthu).
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FeatureLaw centres: living on the edge
Last week’s London Legal Walk, coming weeks after swingeing legal aid cuts were introduced, could be read as a show of strength by the whole legal community.
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Troika measures making law ‘yesterday’s business’
The law has become ‘yesterday’s business’ in swathes of the EU as a combination of austerity and measures pushed through by the International Monetary Fund, European Commission (EC) and European Central Bank drive law firms to the brink of insolvency, the Gazette heard at the CCBE plenary session.
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Costs management
In January 2010 Lord Justice Jackson published his Review of Civil Litigation Costs Final Report. The core recommendations are an interlocking package, and most were implemented on 1 April 2013 in the Civil Procedure (Amendment Rules) 2013, SI 262.
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Growing with India
Since liberalising its markets in 1991, following a bailout by the International Monetary Fund, India has become one of the fastest- growing economies in the world. More recently, last September, following an economic slowdown, and faced with mounting pressure from both domestic and international corporations to make pro-foreign investment a ...
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Will overhaul of PII regulation soften up the market?
The shake-up of solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance has been protracted.
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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 ...