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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 ...
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Sleep of the just?
Lord Bonomy, a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has a rather forbidding demeanour that befits his calling. This distinguished Scottish judge and criminal prosecutor was one of the headline speakers at the Law Society of Scotland’s 60th anniversary conference, held in Edinburgh a couple of ...
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Biting off more than you can chew
Long nights and short summers don’t seem to have dulled the wit of Torben Melchior, president of the Danish supreme court. He told last weekend’s plenary session of the council of bars and law societies of Europe in Copenhagen that, despite public and media perceptions to the contrary, courts’ sentencing ...
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Pulling power
Lawyers and law students from across north-east England donned their gym kit to take part in the York College of Law’s fourth annual sports day. More than 30 teams, including Eversheds, Olswang, Forsters and Gordons competed in football, netball and rugby tournaments, but the highlight was the ‘tug of law’ ...
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Biased system
Anyone reading the recent articles on judicial appointments by the Lord Chief Justice and the president of the Law Society might think that there were few barriers to attaining a fair system of making judicial appointments (see [2009] Gazette, 17 April, 10-11). This is simply not the case.
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Equal footing
I was pleased to read Tim Lawson-Cruttenden’s response to the ‘solicitor bashing’ faced by solicitor-advocates of late (see [2009] Gazette, 14 May, 10). It is about time someone fought their corner.
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The bigger picture
In his critique of the career of Lord Hoffmann (‘Judging the Judges’, 23 April), Joshua Rozenberg presents an incomplete picture of his role in the Pinochet litigation.
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ICC's credibility hangs on Palestinian statehood decision
President Obama’s meeting this week with the Israeli prime minister has focused attention on the universal goal of a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside its Jewish neighbour. But there is increasing concern in legal circles that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court risks making the ...
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Revolution for regulators coming ready or not
The Legal Services Board’s discussion paper on regulation of alternative business structures is most significant for its bold and unambiguous statements of intent.