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Alternative business structures must preserve the rule of law
by Robert Heslett, vice-president of the Law Society The Legal Services Board argues that ‘effective access to justice is at the heart of the concept of a society that rests on a commitment to the rule of law’. That is entirely uncontroversial.
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Government must heed the importance of observing conventions
by Gary Atkinson, senior lecturer at the College of Law Amid all the political comings and goings of recent weeks, something that has been ignored by the media and politicians is the importance of observing those conventions which have such an important place in the constitutional ...
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Data page for May 2009
The data page is the financial rates and data compiled for the Law Society Gazette by MoneyFacts Group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. Downloads Download the ...
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Civil Procedure Rules: 10 years of change
If you are a civil litigator able to remember serving a writ on behalf of a plaintiff, as well as the days of pleadings, interrogatories, further and better particulars, affidavits and discovery, then you are, shall we say, of a certain vintage
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Employment
Civil procedure – Age discrimination – Collective agreements – Employee benefits Rolls-Royce plc v Unite (the union): CA (Civ Div) (Lady Justice Arden, Lords Justice Wall, Aikens): 14 May 2009 ...
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Family law: opening up family proceedings to the media
On 27 April 2009 the Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No 2) Rules 2009 SI857 (County Court and High Court) and the Family Proceedings Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2009 SI2009 No 858 (Magistrates Courts) and two Practice Directions, Attendance of Media Representatives at hearings in Family Proceedings dated 20 April 2009...
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Web of contention
Combine the power of the web and a very grumpy judge and you get cracking reads, as we journalists say. Judge Gledhill QC's public dressing down of three solicitor-advocates led to solicitors storming the Gazette’s website – the article was by a huge margin the ...
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Pretty in pink
She has only two speeds: firing on all cylinders or unconscious. That’s what the husband of Morag Goldfinch, the Law Society’s regional manager for greater London, says about her. And she has needed her irrepressible energy over the last six months after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Sweet charity
Solicitors and staff at Sheffield firm Watson Esam proved just how tough it can be to raise money for charity. For a week they swapped their habitually healthy diets of porridge, muesli and nuts in favour of… cake. They daringly devoured date and walnut, courageously munched their way through chocolate, ...
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Canterbury tale
As one football season ends, clubs, players and supporters are already turning their minds to the next. To sponsorship deals, especially. In the Premier League, Manchester United are sponsored by insurers AIG, Arsenal by Emirates airlines, and Spurs by casino and poker website Mansion.com. In the Kent County League, Canterbury ...
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Eversheds reports 27% dip in equity partner profit
National firm Eversheds today became the second leading law firm to post financial results for 2008/09, reporting a 27% fall in average profits per equity partner (PEP) to £404,000. City firm CMS Cameron McKenna, the other firm to release results so far, also reported a fall in PEP. ...
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Communicating in plain English is the way forward
Neil Quantick is principal of Quanticks solicitors in Reigate, Surrey I’m terribly proud of being a solicitor. I’m terribly proud to be part of a ...
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Freedom of information: cabinet minutes, audit reports, BBC appeal
Probably the most controversial decision under the Freedom of Information Act was published by the Information Tribunal on 27 January 2009 (Cabinet Office and Dr Christopher Lamb v Information Commissioner (EA/2008/0024 & 0029))...
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Negligence
Barristers – Legal advice – Limitations – Professional negligence – Solicitors Pritchard Joyce & Hinds (a firm) v Batcup & anor: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Sedley, Dyson, Sullivan): 5 May 2009 ...
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Succession
Assumption of responsibility – Family provision – Wills Baynes v Hedger & ors: CA (Civ Div) (Sir Andrew Morritt (Chancellor), Lords Justice Longmore, Goldring): 7 May 2009 ...
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Review: books cast a magic spell
The enchanted LibraryKaren Andrea Legend/YouWriteOn, £5.99 After visiting a bookshop promoting the works of Spanish novelists Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, and Carlos ...
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Review: a sideways look at the workplace
Getting OutSarah Henley Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London
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Litigation funding: an overview of a contentious area of growth
A litigator’s job description could increasingly be said to include the skills of bookie and salesman – assessing the odds of winning a case and advising clients on the evolving market in funding their litigation.
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Bach to the wall
Last Friday was not a good day for our legal aid minister, Lord Bach of Lutterworth. First his ministerial sidekick, Shahid Malik, became a casualty of the expenses scandal engulfing Westminster. Then he was given a rough ride at a legal aid conference, where he ...