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Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper confirm merger
Two of the UK’s leading insurance firms, Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper, today confirmed that they will merge. DAC Beachcroft will have a combined turnover of £175m and will employ more than 2,000 staff in offices across the world. The firms said ...
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200th firm signs diversity and inclusion charter
Carmarthen firm Ungoed-Thomas & King has become the 200th firm to sign up to the Law Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Charter. One third of private practice solicitors now work in firms that have signed up to the flagship diversity initiative that was launched last year. ...
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Human rights lawyers claim ‘historic’ victory
Human rights lawyers claimed a ‘historic’ victory this month in two landmark rulings in the European Court of Human Rights against the Ministry of Defence. The Strasbourg judges ruled earlier this month that when UK forces are exercising public powers overseas, such as assuming responsibility for ...
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Solicitors from Hell founder ordered to pay £10,000 damages
The founder of the Solicitors from Hell website has been ordered to pay damages of £10,000 after publishing defamatory claims that a solicitor was dishonest. Rick Kordowski’s site published a complaint in March made by Tim Smee about Marlow firm Gabbitas Robins. ...
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SRA to investigate solicitors’ potential role in phone-hacking events
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has today launched a formal investigation into the role played by solicitors in events surrounding the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. The SRA's chief executive Antony Townsend said the decision followed a preliminary review of the material in the public domain. ...
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Solicitors do not deserve public humiliation
I received a poor service from my local library the other day. The woman in there was a bit abrupt and sent me to the wrong section as I searched for something to hold up on the Tube to prove how intellectual I was. I declined ...
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The English were mute at the international legal aid conference
Every couple of years, legal aid administrators from around the world meet with concerned academics. In June, they gathered in Helsinki.
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Naturalisation
British nationality - Acquisition R (on the application of Chockalingam Thamby) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London) (Mr Justice Sales): 8 July 2011 ...
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PII special: overview - taking cover
In the legal sector - and the insurance market for that matter - the summer of 2010 was a tipping point; a realisation that things had gone too far and action was a necessity. So what was the trigger for this sudden application of the brakes? ...
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Why the SRA replaced the assigned risks pool
Protecting consumers by ensuring effective professional indemnity and compensation fund arrangements is a key objective for the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Currently, financial protection is achieved through a combination of two arrangements: compulsory professional indemnity insurance (PII) and the compensation fund.
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Human rights
Jurisdiction - Extra-territorial jurisdiction Al-Skeini and others v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights (Grand Chamber): 7 July 2011 The European Court of Human Rights held that the applicants’ ...
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Sharon Shoesmith case: accountability and fairness
Power politics can be brutal to those perceived as prejudicial. A former Archbishop of Canterbury found this out to his cost. For in December 1170, Thomas Becket was murdered at Canterbury Cathedral in apparent compliance with the wishes of King Henry II, with whom he had had a series of ...
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Advice for firms that find it harder to get PII cover at the right price
Market conditions have produced something of a ‘perfect storm’ around the October professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewals this year.