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New laws on the use of cookies
With accusations of ignorance and fear-mongering coming from both the privacy and the tech-freedom camps, recent new laws surrounding the use of ‘cookies’ have not been without their problems.
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The increasing world of regulation and compliance
In a secret location in the UK, there is a warehouse the size of a football pitch that climbs five storeys into the sky. Under its gargantuan roof are more than three million boxes and, in these boxes, are thousands and thousands of files and innumerable documents.
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Part 36 offers and recent judgments
One of the most successful innovations introduced by the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) has been part 36 offers. In 2007, part 36 offers replaced payments into court as the sole mechanism under the CPR for making offers to settle, which, in the words of Lord Justice Moore-Bick, have ‘far-reaching consequences ...
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Animal instinct and the law
I read the letters page weekly and normally find the tone of the correspondence quite depressing. I was therefore delighted to read the item ‘Become a vet’ which made me laugh out loud in my office. Not that I wish to seem joyful at ...
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Clients want to see something tangible
I was interested to read Bob Haworth’s comments on bringing back Land Certificates. My experience also indicates that clients want something tangible. Indeed, some years ago I was applying to the Land Registry to make a small adjustment to a client’s Title and she handed ...
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Defective claims
I read with interest the variousletters pointing out that a claim form is a ‘statement of case’ and must be verified by a statement of truth. The standard claim form, N1, has the following statement of truth at the bottom of the second page: ‘(I believe) ...
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Colombia concerns
While the Colombia Caravana UK Lawyers Group welcomes the commitment to the protection of human rights in Colombia expressed in ambassador Mauricio Rodriguez Munera’s letter, we continue to have grave concerns about the safety of Colombian human rights lawyers.
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It makes sense to restrict arrests for crimes of universal jurisdiction
Government reforms designed to restrict arrests for crimes of universal jurisdiction survived new challenges in the House of Lords last week. If the proposals emerge unscathed after a further debate this month, there will be less risk that politicians visiting Britain from countries such as the US, China and Israel ...
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How mucking in pays dividends
I read with great interest Tony Roe’s article on starting a firm from scratch. It brought a smile to my face as it brought back memories of when I set up Millan Solicitors in 2004. As a small private general practice, we have had to ...
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How mucking in pays dividends
I read with great interest Tony Roe’s article on starting a firm from scratch. It brought a smile to my face as it brought back memories of when I set up Millan Solicitors in 2004. As a small private general practice, we have had to ...
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Fees for independent social work experts must be fair
by Richard J Jack, director of CISWA-UK The Confederation of Independent Social Work Agencies (CISWA-UK) read with concern a recent posting on the children’s panel group website. This indicates that some solicitors are inclined to avoid using experts who charge above the prescribed rates,even where such ...
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Whitehall turns a blind eye to fallout from legal aid cuts
It is a common cry, when a decision goes against someone, that there was a flaw in consultation. But the objections to what is proposed for the withdrawal of legal aid in the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill are more substantive than the lamentations of sore losers.
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‘Big is not beautiful’ says LSB in report on smaller regulators
An independent report commissioned by the Legal Services Board into the future of the smaller regulators has stressed that they must not be forced into radical changes in response to the Legal Services Act. The report, by former Ministry of Justice official Nick Smedley, predicted there ...
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Irani scoops JLD pro bono award
Shireen Irani won the first LawWorks Junior Lawyers Division pro bono award at the LawWorks annual awards ceremony last night. She won the award for developing i-pro bono, an independent not-for-profit organisation connecting bodies in need of legal assistance with lawyers and students who want to ...
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UK's top law firms see fee income growth
The UK’s top 100 law firms achieved overall fee income growth of 3.9% in the last financial year - but the gap between top and bottom is continuing to grow. Deloitte’s latest Quarterly Legal Sector Survey shows top firms increased productivity by 1.6% up to the ...
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Clarke rules out raid on client account interest
In a small victory for the Law Society, the government has dropped plans to use the interest from firms’ client accounts to bolster the legal aid budget. In its response to the green paper consultation, published after yesterday’s publication of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment ...
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Law Society winds up final salary pension scheme
The Law Society is to wind up its deficit-stricken final salary pension scheme, a move that chief executive Desmond Hudson expects to save the organisation £12.5m a year from 2012. Agreement has been reached with global retirement and savings specialist MetLife for a buy-out of ...
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PCS strikers aim to close Supreme Court
The courts will rely on their depleted ranks of senior managers to remain open during industrial action, when Ministry of Justice members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) strike on 30 June in protest at proposed changes to public sector pensions and job cuts. ...
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Djanogly urged to ease legal aid backlog
The president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association has written to justice minister Jonathan Djanogly (pictured) asking him to ‘directly assist’ in tackling the ‘appalling delay’ in legal aid applications and payments. Since the Legal Services Commission (LSC) centralized the administration of legal aid forms ...
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Beachcroft in merger talks with Davies Arnold Cooper
Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper are discussing a potential merger that would catapult the combined firm into the UK’s top 25 by revenue. The pair said today that together they aim to create one of the largest law firms serving the insurance market, both nationally and ...