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BSB complaints system streamlined
Barristers will be able to opt to have allegations of professional misconduct handled without a formal hearing under a new streamlined complaints system to be introduced by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). The move is just one of the changes to be made to the bar's complaints and ...
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Marriage vetting plan criticised
British Muslim lawyers have criticised plans to vet marriages between UK nationals and overseas partners for signs of coercion as misguided and overly intrusive. The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) claimed last week that more than 70% of marriages between UK citizens and nationals from the Asian sub-continent ...
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Lawyers attack accounting exemption for foreign LLPs
TRADING: 'obvious unfairness' on financial statements Leading lawyers have criticised the government's decision not to force overseas limited liability ...
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Deals of the week
Biotech: Magic circle firm Allen & Overy advised biotechnology company Vernalis on the sale of Apokyn, a treatment for Parkinson’s disease – and the sale of Vernalis’s US commercial operations – to French company Ipsen for $17.5 million (£9 million). Ipsen, advised by ...
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Setting the tone
She will be the next big thing in opera,' according to Kerry Underwood, senior partner at Hertfordshire firm Underwoods, which sponsors 26-year-old Dorset-born soprano Lucy Mervik.
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Tanzania training mission
Solicitors from City law firms Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith, Clyde & Co and SJ Berwin have delivered, pro bono, a week of Alternative Dispute Resolution training in Tanzania. The training included role-plays in a mock courtroom, with Tanzania's Minister of Justice, Augustino Ramadhani, acting as the presiding judge with 45 ...
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Full disclosure
Lawyers are incidental beneficiaries of the protections afforded by limited liability partnership (LLP) status.
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Taking the initiative
The Law Society must be in the vanguard of campaigning for pay equality within the legal profession, argues Nwabueze Nwokolo.
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Fittest for purpose
As a solicitor in the provinces, I have been interested to note a consistent theme emerging from various legal periodicals, to the effect that a significant number of high-street legal practices are - in the words of a famous army private - 'doomed' unless they change.
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Accidents happen – but what can be published?
Media law update: PCC privacy adjudication, Paul Kirkland and Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
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Criminal procedure
Conspiracy to defraud – defects – execution – powers of entry – search and seizure – search warrants – lawfulness of issue and execution – football clubs
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Appeals procedures
I do not agree with John Ford's claim that legal aid costs appeals are being unfairly undertaken (see [2008] Gazette, 5 June, 12). I would like to reassure Mr Ford that the Legal Services Commission's (LSC) South Tyneside (formerly Newcastle) office deals with each request ...
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Employment
Asbestos – contributions – estoppel – indemnities – liabilities – mesothelioma – railways – settlements – recovery of damages
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Insolvency
Investigations – misrepresentation – public interest – pyramid selling – undertakings – winding-up petitions – unlawful lotteries – just and equitable winding-upSecretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform v Amway (UK) Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice Norris): 14 May 2008 The petitioner secretary of state presented a petition for ...
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Insolvency
Investigations – misrepresentation – public interest – pyramid selling – undertakings – winding-up petitions – unlawful lotteries – just and equitable winding-up
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Damn statistics?
Derek Hill, director of the Criminal Defence Service at the LSC, trumpets the rise in criminal legal aid contracts and offices as evidence that practitioners still believe publicly funded work is 'profitable' (see [2008] Gazette, 5 June, 4).
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Breeding confidence
I am the solicitor quoted in Peter Williamson's piece 'Doing the right thing' (see [2008] Gazette, 12 June, 15). I welcome the openness of his response, as chairman of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), to the spate of criticisms of the ways in which the SRA sometimes conducts its investigation ...