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Excellence award shortlist published
The outstanding achievements of legal professionals across England and Wales have been recognised by the judges of the Law Society’s Excellence Awards. High-achieving individual solicitors and teams across the entire legal sector have been shortlisted in categories ranging from Excellence in Community Investment to Excellence in ...
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Solicitors anxious over ABS ‘threat’
There is a high level of anxiety among solicitors over the impact of legal services reforms, with conveyancers showing the greatest alarm, according to research seen exclusively by the Gazette. A survey of more than 300 solicitors by law firm network Contact Law found ...
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Financial crisis sees dispute resolution surge
The financial crisis has seen a surge in dispute resolution cases, with the UK performing well as a venue for hearing international disputes, according to a report published today. The report Dispute Resolution in London & the UK, compiled by membership body TheCityUK, shows the number ...
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Citizens v notaries – a draw
With all the ink spilt since the publication of the Akzo Nobel judgment last week, and the ink still to be spilt in as-yet-unwritten academic articles, something published at the same time on the website of the European Court of Justice has gone unnoticed.
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Why law firms are seizing on the Akzo privilege judgment
When the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the Akzo case came out on Tuesday, comments from law firms condemning the decision began rolling into the newsdesk within minutes.
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Innovation ‘anathema to solicitors’, report suggests
Innovation appears to be ‘anathema’ to solicitors, who place too much reliance on the value of their reputation and are overly wedded to ‘old school’ marketing techniques, according to a report published today. The ‘white paper’ compiled by business advisory group Selling for Solicitors also found ...
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Law Society warns Home Office over immigration cap
The Law Society has today made a submission to the Home Office warning that its proposed limits on non-EU highly skilled migration could damage the legal sector. The submission follows concerns voiced by Liberal Democrat business secretary Vince Cable this week that immigration limits are damaging ...
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Firms must inform clients of new complaints body
Solicitors will be obliged to inform clients that the Legal Complaints Service has been replaced by the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), following a rule change approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority at its board meeting today. The SRA said it had been forced to introduce the rule ...
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Best dressed
It could be time to dust off the gladrags this autumn. A group of 60 College of Law students have been busy organising a ‘full length and fabulous’ event to take place at the luxurious Waldorf Hilton Hotel in London on 2 October, in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. As ...
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For the record
For those following the gripping saga of Redruth solicitor J P Leaning and his quest for blanket permission from Ken Clarke to take a handheld recording device into any court – an update. Leaning has informed Obiter that he has still to receive a reply from the minister, who seems ...
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The spy who sued me
In this age of the long lens, BBC executives and MI5 heads cannot be too careful about what documents they leave sticking out of their briefcases. But it turns out that they are not the only ones who need to exercise ultra-caution when it comes to sensitive documents. In its ...
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Employment
Gross misconduct – Law firms – Unfair dismissal Wilson Devonald Ltd v S Suckling: EAT (Judge Serota QC, D Evans CBE, P Gammon MBE): 3 August 2010 The appellant employer ...
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Rallying cry
It’s amazing to what lengths some solicitors will go to escape from the office. Manchester lawyers Chris Adams and Sean Daly, otherwise known as team ‘Freewheeling Palm Trees’, today set off on a 3,000-mile round trip to southern Italy in a 20-year-old Merc. The pair, who are being sponsored by ...
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Blue language
Gazette wrists are still smarting from the firm slap administered by solicitor Mrs K A Jordan, a partner at Leeds firm Blacks, in relation to a recent news item. The story, about legal executives and will-writers potentially being given new probate rights by ...
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Dishing it out in court
When home secretary Theresa May recently indicated that anti-social behaviour orders could soon be deemed anti-social by the new government, Obiter put out a request to the profession for first-hand experience of unusual asbos. We received an intriguing response from a prosecutor in the north of England, revealing a fascinating, ...
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Civil procedure
Corporation tax – Costs – Group relief Revenue & Customs Commissioners v Marks & Spencer Plc: ChD (Mr Justice Warren): 27 August 2010 The court was required to determine outstanding ...
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Freedom of Information Act and exemptions to the rule
There is no single FoI exemption which covers such reports, and often they will be disclosable in their entirety because they will contain no specific information about surveillance operations. However, where this is the case, or the request is for wider information about surveillance activity, the section 31 exemption (law ...
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Solicitors queue up to sue LSC
Pressure is mounting on the Legal Services Commission over its handling of the tender for civil legal aid contracts, as it faces a growing number of judicial review challenges to the process, and talks with the Law Society broke down.
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Army cuts could hit support for Afghan operations
The defence spending and security review will result in cuts of at least 25% in the numbers of lawyers in the Army and Royal Air Force, the Gazette understands. The cuts will include lawyers who advise frontline troops and commanders on compliance with the Geneva ...