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City lawyer sacked after claiming '£1m' expenses
A City lawyer specialising in fraud cases has been dismissed after ‘wrongly’ claiming more than £1m in expenses from his firm. Christopher Grierson was removed from the partnership at Hogan Lovells after the firm concluded an investigation. Lovells said Grierson, who qualified ...
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How to run a defence
Jeffrey Gordon, criminal defence solicitor at EBR Attridge in London, had a busy month in April. Not only did he complete his 60th year in practice, but he was also one of only 18 athletes to finish their 31st London marathon (and, at 77, was ...
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Foul-mouthed and charitable
Solicitors are often able to make a few bob by swearing oaths. But East Sussex firm Housing Law Services has been raising cash through an altogether different type of swearing. The firm introduced a ‘swear box’ over Lent, and raised ...
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Dodging the bullets
In the wake of James Morton’s column about attacks on judges, Obiter has received correspondence from James S Vickers taking issue with the assertion that the late Ann Goddard was the only judge in living memory to have been attacked in a British court. Vickers ...
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The legal context of FIFA corruption claims
Is FIFA a law unto itself? Jeremy Summers considers the legal context of Lord Triesman’s allegations that FIFA executive members sought bribes in return for backing England’s 2018 World Cup bid Although football will ...
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There's still scope for debate on miscarriage of justice compensation
by Dr Michael Naughton, director of the University of Bristol Innocence Project Last week (11 May), the Supreme Court handed down its landmark judgment on what constitutes a ‘miscarriage of justice’ for the purposes of statutory compensation.
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Sterling efforts at legal walks raised more than £500,000
One must grudgingly admire legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly’s chutzpah in turning up to this week’s record-breaking London Legal sponsored walk. For its spectacular success will hopefully go some small way to compensating for the deep cuts to funding for social welfare law that his ...
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Insurers attack high volume of whiplash claims
Insurers have decried the UK as the whiplash capital of Europe with nearly 1,200 claims made every day.
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Immigration lawyers warn of reforms impact
Limits on the number of professional migrants allowed into the UK are ‘politically-driven’ and risk stalling economic recovery and driving business overseas, speakers at an Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers conference in London warned earlier this month. Delegates heard that the UK was ‘bucking the trend’ ...
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Law Society launches Excellence Awards
The Gazette will shortly be seeking a Legal Personality of the Year as one of this year’s Law Society Excellence Awards. For the second year running, we will be inviting readers to nominate lawyers who over the previous 12 months have made an outstanding contribution to ...
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Is government living up to the military covenant?
The notion of the military covenant, that members of the military and their family are owed fair treatment and proper support, in return for risking their lives at the discretion of policy-makers, is sound and accepted. Feelings run understandably high when anyone claims that the ...
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Chancery Lane seeks ‘pause’ to reforms of legal aid
The president of the Law Society has written to justice secretary Ken Clarke calling for a pause in the proposed legal aid reforms. Linda Lee said the proposals ‘amount to a fundamental reshaping of the legal aid scheme’, removing from scope many areas of law that ...
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Could Mary Portas help your law firm?
Imagine if your law firm was put to the test by a secret shopper – someone like TV celebrity guru Mary Portas, otherwise known as Mary Queen of Shops. How would it fare? After a high powered career in retailing, Portas forged ...
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Welcome to the family
History is certainly not bunk as far as traditionalist Obiter is concerned. So we offer our apologies to Peter Williamson for muddling our dates when we wrote last week that he was sitting Law Society president when his daughter Catherine was admitted in 2005. ...
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Clarke mulls privacy law
Ministers, newspaper editors and celebrities will turn their attentions to the Royal Courts of Justice later this week for a landmark development on injunctions. On Friday Lord Neuberger (pictured), master of the rolls, will issue a report on the use of injunctions by a committee of ...
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Sack Clarke? Be careful what you wish for Ed…
Dark clouds fill the sky over the Ministry of Justice, with Ken Clarke getting rained on from a great height. And to a large extent, he fully deserves his soaking. Even appearing to distinguish between ‘date rape’ and ‘serious rape’ (he ...
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No win no fee agreements are blamed for rise in medical negligence claims
No win no fee agreements have been blamed for a sharp rise in the number of medical negligence claims. The Medical Defence Union says claims increased by almost 20% in 2010 after several years of stable figures. More than half of the ...
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BLG announces profits boost
City firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has this week announced significant end-of-year profits. The firm recorded a 17% increase in turnover for 2010/11, and saw profits rise by 35% across the board. That figure took into account performance in both the ...
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MoJ publishes action plan to strengthen UK’s legal services position
Plans to strengthen the UK’s reputation as a global leader in legal services were unveiled by the government yesterday. The new action plan sets out how the Ministry of Justice and UK Trade & Industry aim to promote the UK as a centre of legal excellence, ...