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New Law Commission chairman planning to reform adult social care law
The Law Commission is planning ‘very important and potentially very exciting’ reforms to the law on social care for adults, the commission’s new chairman said in an interview for the Gazette. Sir James Munby, who now sits in the Court of Appeal as Lord Justice Munby, ...
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Customers will rule the legal services revolution
Where are the clients? Or more to the point, where are the profits going to be in certain law firm client groups in the future market for legal services?
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Libel judges face a tough time in the media
Mr Justice Eady, eminent libel judge and newspaper hate figure, has thick skin. Speaking at today’s Justice conference on free speech and privacy, Eady quoted snippets from newspaper articles accusing him of ‘moral and social nihilism,’ ‘arrogance,’ ‘immorality,’ and to top it off, ‘amorality’.
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Legal ethics, past and present – part two
In the second of three articles tracing the history of ethics and the legal profession, Mark Humphries recalls a time when accusing a lawyer of being a ‘daffy-down-dilly’ was as serious as accusing a doctor of killing a patient
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Was the LSCP better and cheaper than the LSB will be?
So, farewell then LSCP. Another set of initials is about to bite the dust, namely those of the Legal Services Consultative Panel. To continue in initials mode, the LSCP followed on from ACLEC (the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct) and will be succeeded by the ...
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Can women really rise to the top in big law firms?
Looking at some research into non-legal directors in top-100 law firms yesterday, I was shocked by the gender split at big firms for 'support' roles such as finance, IT and HR director.
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Legal Lives: solicitor Daniel Radiven on coping with cancer
Nine years ago, I made my first and previously only contribution to the Gazette. As an ambitious trainee with my former firm, Betesh, I had a letter published in which I bemoaned the absence of an adequate forum or mechanism for the assessment of costs in cases settled pre-issue. The ...
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Negligence
Asbestos - Causation - Duty of care - Mesothelioma Karen Sienkiewicz (administratrix of the estate of Enid Costello, deceased) v Greif (UK) Ltd: Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Justice Scott Baker, Lady Justice Smith): CA (Civ Div) : 6 ...
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Commercial considerations can influence the discharge of liabilities
In Collier v P&MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 1329, [2008] 1 WLR 643, [2007] All ER(D) 233 (Dec) (Collier), the Court of Appeal examined the rule in Pinnel’s case (1603) 5 Coke’s Rep 117a (the rule), in the context of contemporary commercial considerations.
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Immigration: migrants who wish to qualify as UK lawyers
Studying law with a UK institution and becoming a solicitor or barrister in the UK has long been an esteemed achievement by lawyers around the world. Historically, the UK has welcomed migrants who wish to undertake the challenge. Immigration rules (the rules) and related concessions have made routes to becoming ...
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Why newspapers lack interest in court reporting
The name Mike Taylor is not one that many lawyers will recognise, even though he has spent his entire working life writing about the law. In an extraordinary 42 years at the Press Association law courts news service, he reported countless cases in the High Court, ...
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Bog standard
Legal aid lawyers may recall – with no particular fondness – the speech justice secretary Jack Straw gave back in March advising them to reconsider their earnings expectations. ‘There is certainly nothing ordained by the Almighty which says that of those paid for by the ...
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COMPETITION: Legally Blonde
A blowsy, feelgood musical is coming to London’s West End next week that’s guaranteed to lift your spirits amid the recessionary gloom. Based on the hit movie of the same name, Legally Blonde is the award-winning Broadway sensation created by Tony Award-winning director and Olivier Award-nominated choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray). ...
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Don't tie our hands on referral fees
John Hawks has seven years on me as a solicitor and will, I suspect, remember charging scale fees for conveyancing (see letters, 19 November). By the time I qualified in 1980, changes were afoot. I now look back along the road we have travelled.
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Hand of Gaul
Obiter reckons Ireland’s justice minister is interpreting his remit rather loosely. Dermot Ahern intervened to demand a replay last week after Ireland were cruelly denied a place at next year’s World Cup following a blatant handball by Thierry Henry which set up a ...
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Clear guidance
I write in response to Andrew Hopper and Greg Treverton-Jones’ letter Amending the Code by the back door (see letters, 19 November) on the new guidance to rule 9 (referrals of business).
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Heir hunting
Calling all probate solicitors. Do you recall acting for a ‘somewhat eccentric and secretive’ millionairess called Judy Maude Keele, some time in the past century? To refresh your memory, she owned a flat in Mayfair, drove a classic sports car, and reputedly built up a large collection of fine art ...
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Clear guidance
I write in response to Andrew Hopper and Greg Treverton-Jones’ letter ‘Amending the Code by the back door’ (see letters, 19 November) on the new guidance to rule 9 (referrals of business).
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Lacking confidence in Lord Bach
Further to your news item ‘Compulsory pro bono’ (see letters, 12 November) I must express my amusement at Lord Bach’s views on pro bono work and the ‘concern’ he has about the lack of confidence in our profession. Perhaps he should address the lack of confidence the publicly funded members ...
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New PC charges to benefit in-house lawyers
Changes to the practising certificate (PC) fee charging system will see around £16m transferred onto private practice solicitors, to the benefit of in-house and local government lawyers, under plans due to be unveiled by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Under the new charging regime, 40% of ...