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Record profits for Eversheds as the good times roll again
Eversheds has returned to growth and posted record profits after three years of declining or flat revenues. Profit per equity partner climbed 14% to £632,000 in 2011/12, while income climbed 3% to £366m. Net profit grew 10%. In a statement, the firm said all major ...
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Appeal tribunal slaps down serial employment litigant
A litigant who began 31 sets of employment tribunal proceedings over 28 months has been told he can bring no more cases without the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s express permission.
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Quindell snaps up claims networker to sidestep referral fee ban
One of the biggest new entrants to the legal market has invested in a networking business that brings together claims management companies (CMCs). AIM-listed Quindell Portfolio, which already owns a law firm and has applied to become an alternative business structure, said the move was designed ...
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Senior lawyers attack closed civil hearings
Government plans to hold certain civil court hearings in secret have come under fire from 50 senior lawyers who have said that no case has been made for introducing such an ‘inherently unfair’ procedure. The 50 lawyers, all special advocates with experience of the present system ...
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Courier ‘teething problems’ hit London courts
Courts in London have been disrupted this week because of ‘teething problems’ with the new courier service employed to deliver Crown Prosecution Service files to court. An executive officer of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association, Greg Powell, told the Gazette that prosecution files arrived ...
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CofE’s wedding rules can be elastic when it wants them to be
Is the Church of England taking a consistent moral line over gay marriage? At one level it would be nice to think so. While I do not share the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage, no one is truly comfortable with tales of parents feigning faith to obtain a church school ...
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High Court vindicates RSA on ‘in-house’ repair deals
An insurance company was entitled to set its own rates for vehicle repairs after claimants suffered accidents, a High Court judge has ruled. In his preliminary judgment on the case of Coles v Hetherton released today, Mr Justice Cooke said RSA Insurance was entitled to ...
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Social security
Services for sick and disabled persons - Assessment of needs of sick and disabled persons - Direct payments R (on the application of KM) (by his mother and litigation friend) v Cambridgeshire County Council: Supreme Court (Lords Phillips, Walker, ...
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Family proceedings
Disclosure of documents - Third party Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Charman and another: Family Division (Mr Justice Coleridge): 29 May 2012 The Family Division, in dismissing an application ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Claimants appealing Patel and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lady Justice Hallett and Lord Justice Stanley Burnton): 1 June 2012 ...
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Employment
Unfair dismissal - Reason for dismissal Ackroyd & others v Meter U Ltd and another case: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mrs Justice Slade, Mrs M McArthur and Mr A Harris): 28 February 2012 ...
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Bulldog muzzled
We must confess that the Obiter office was deserted by two minutes to five on Monday. Our patriotic/deluded team was keen to join in a lusty rendition of the national anthem with Stevie G and the lads, evoking the Agincourt spirit for England’s Euro 2012 clash with France.
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High notes
Old Africa hand Obiter has always had a thing for South African music. Think Soweto Beats, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela. And now also think Cape Town Opera, which came to Oxford for the European premiere of its musical tribute to elder statesman Nelson Mandela earlier this week. ...
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Tough questions
Mission creep was always a danger for Obiter’s friend Lord Justice Leveson (pictured). It was maybe there from the very moment the prime minister decided that a little local trouble with endemic phone hacking at News of the World merited a wide-ranging look at the relationship between media, politicians and ...
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Street wise
Hackney Community Law Centre, as you would expect, is hip and down with the people. This week sees the launch of its Community Law Shop service, where it is taking legal advice to the streets. In step with one of the latest marketing wheezes, it has styled its new initiative ...
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Insolvency
Property available for distribution – Pari passu – Anti-deprivation Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Football League Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice David Richards): 25 May 2012 The Chancery Division declined the ...
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Extradition
Extradition hearing – European Arrest Warrant – Appellant being arrested pursuant to European Arrest Warrant Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority: SC (Justices of the Supreme Court, Lords Phillips (president), Walker, Brown, Mance, Kerr, Dyson, Lady Hale): 30 May 2012 ...