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Environment initiatives, business enterprises and broadcast news
Green deal: National firm Addleshaw Goddard advised a number of banks, led by Bank of Ireland, on financing a construction project by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The 25-year private finance initiative, worth an estimated £4bn, aims to boost recycling and reduce ...
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How come it’s taken so long for a LinkedIn for lawyers?
Really interesting little spat going on over at Nick Holmes’s Binary Law blog about whether Martindale Hubbell’s 'Connected' social networking site for lawyers is any good/worth getting into/old before it’s even born, it seems.
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KBF executives set up new legal lending firm
Executives behind the Iceland-funded legal lender that collapsed amid last autumn’s banking crisis have launched a new venture, offering a similar service based on what they say is a more robust funding model. Key Business Finance (KBF), which supplied nearly 15% of law firms in ...
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Interception and surveillance powers to be reined in by Home Office
The home secretary has announced plans to stop local authorities employing covert surveillance techniques for trivial purposes. Jacqui Smith launched a 12-week public consultation to review the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). It will look at ...
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Class war still to be fought in the legal profession
The law and other professions remain closed shops to many from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (see my story this week on the Cabinet Office report in which this was revealed).
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Vexatious requests, audit reports, data protection and disclosing legal advice
It is now four years since the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force. While the act is about opening up the public sector to more scrutiny through access to recorded information, parliament has recognised the importance of ensuring that public authorities are protected from vexatious requests that waste ...
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Employment
Company law – Determining employment status of shareholders and directors Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform v (1) Richard Neufeld (2) Keith Howe: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Rix, Toulson, Rimer): 2 April 2009 ...
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Insolvency
Landlord and tenant - Business tenancies - Companies - Liquidation Gabriella Shaw v Hazel Doleman: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Stanley Burnton, Elias): 1 April 2009 The appellant ...
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Compromise – Lump sum payments – Shares – Valuation Brian Alan Myerson v Ingrid Diane Myerson: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Sullivan, Lady Justice Smith): 1 April 2009 ...
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Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules
Part 79The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2008 (SI No.3085) were made on 2 December 2008 and came into force on 4 December 2008.
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The judiciary needs more solicitors to become judges
I am grateful to the Gazette for providing me with an opportunity to write directly to solicitors about judicial office. There is a considerable public interest in the availability of high-quality candidates for judicial appointment, from whichever branch of the legal profession they may come.
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Power in numbers: making sense of the numbers behind commercial litigation
There are ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’, said the Victorian politician Benjamin Disraeli (allegedly), but numbers and statistics can also help uncover the truth – or at least the facts.
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Zero tolerance of ‘solicitor bashing’ of any kind
Tim Lawson-Cruttenden is chairman of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates In recent weeks the standard of solicitor advocacy has been the subject of ...
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Green recovery will push environmental law mainstream
Robert Lee is Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School and a member of the academic panel at Landmark Chambers’ Centre for Environmental LawLast month’s Budget introduced a range of measures to encourage investment ...
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PPPs will not provide international opportunities for the legal profession
George Rosenberg is a consultant at construction firm Corbett & Co International in TeddingtonI was interested to read the comment by the minister for trade and investment, Lord Davies of Abersoch (see [2009] Gazette, ...
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Fraud claims reach record level, says ABI
Fraudulent insurance claims reached record levels in 2008, with dishonest claims totalling £14m exposed each week, the Association of British Insurers has revealed. ABI figures for 2008 released today (16 April) record 107,200 fraudulent insurance claims – more than 2,000 claims a week. The figures represent ...
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Green shoots
I hate the phrase ‘green shoots’, mainly because it was being used months back by a few economic commentators who only really wanted to be the first to say it. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the dole queue, while the great British pound has fallen towards ...
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Hearsay, bad character and identification evidence
The very wide use of the provisions of section 114(1)(d) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to allow the admission, as evidence of its truth, of hearsay evidence is further confirmed by the decision in R v RL [2008] EWCA Crime 973.
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Civil procedure
Police – Admissibility – Compilations – Disclosure – Football banning orders Newman v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: DC (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Teare): 25 March 2009 ...
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Immigration
Criminal liability – Refugees – Terrorism – Convention relating to the Status of Refugees MH (Syria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: DS (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice ...