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Sentencing guidelines
The first series of new-style guidelines has taken effect for all sentences imposed on or after 13 June 2011, whatever the date of the offence. The guidelines apply to offences under: ...
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Trust and trustee
Maintenance - Maintenance of children Green and another v Hon E Alexander and others: Chancery Division: 19 July 2011 The Chancery Division of the High Court decided that the claimant ...
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Citizenship
United Kingdom citizenship - Deprivation of citizenship - Claimant becoming naturalised British citizen GI v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London): 19 July 2011 ...
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Twitter popular among judges - but they need to master the medium
The judges have started tweeting. Even though reporters are still waiting for final guidance from the judiciary on the use of ‘live, text-based communication from court’, senior judges have jumped the gun and embraced Twitter with enthusiasm. Not that you’ll see judges telling us what ...
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Insolvency
Administration order - Administrator - Appointment of administrator Stanley International Betting Ltd v Stanleybet UK Investments Ltd and Others: Chancery Division: 12 July 2011Stanley International Betting Ltd v Stanleybet UK Investments Ltd and Others: Chancery Division (Stuart Isaacs QC ...
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One in three law centres set to shut down
At least a third of law centres will close if government plans to cut legal aid funding go ahead this autumn, solicitors have predicted. The warning came after the UK’s largest not-for-profit social welfare law firm, Law for All, went into administration, weeks after the Immigration ...
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Claimant solicitors to pay half of RTA portal costs
Claimant solicitors are to fund half of the cost of the Road Traffic Accident Portal, the Gazette has learned, in a move that claimant lawyers believe will give them more say in how the system operates. The portal, which launched last year as an information exchange ...
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London firm offers 'divorce insurance'
London law firm Prolegal is to offer ‘divorce insurance’ to clients, in conjunction with a legal expenses insurer. The policy, which will be offered to clients when they make a pre-nuptial agreement, will cover the costs of challenging the pre-nup or adopting it into a ...
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Law firm mergers trend ‘to accelerate’
A high proportion of small and medium-sized firms have completed mergers in the first half of 2011, new research by the Law Consultancy Network suggests. The third set of six-monthly statistics compiled by consultant Andrew Otterburn showed that one in three of the 31 firms surveyed ...
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Big firms coy on external investment talks
Most leading law firms are discussing the potential for external investment ahead of the Legal Services Act coming fully into force – but they are not admitting to it, according to a financial advisory group. Few of the larger firms have shown any public interest in ...
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Employment
Practice and procedure - Jurisdiction - Unfair dismissal Kudjodji v Lidl Ltd: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Langstaff): 25 May 2011 The employee brought a claim against the employer for ...
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Diversity boss calls for 'inclusive culture' at legal firms
The incoming global head of diversity and inclusion at City giant Herbert Smith has warned that some law firms still need to do much more to create an ‘inclusive culture’. David Shields, a former director at gay rights organisation Stonewall, said some practices were more concerned ...
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Disappearing act
Obiter was amused last year by reports that some bobbies in the south-west had caused a stir by climbing through the open windows of houses, placing valuable items on show into a paper ‘swag bag’, and then leaving what must have been a remarkably irritating leaflet pointing out to homeowners ...
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Phone idle
Legal aid lawyers stuck in the Legal Services Commission’s payments system will be delighted to learn that, to free up staff time to deal with the backlog, the quango is reducing the hours it will operate the helpline that deals with queries. Solicitors owed money ...
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Miss-taken vocation
The solicitors’ profession could have a glamorous new entrant in a few years, after law student Rissikat Bade (pictured), the current Miss London, revealed that she plans to become a lawyer. Bade just missed out on the Miss England title last month, in what she ...
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Report highlights dire plight of Syrian lawyers
Human rights lawyers in Syria suffer surveillance and harassment by security officials, and are banned from holding meetings or travelling abroad, according to a report by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). The report said the international community had ‘great concerns’ over the treatment ...