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Landlord and tenant
Assured tenancies – Improvements – Legislative intention – Tenancies Cherry Sheila Hughes v Borodex Ltd: CA (Civ Div) (Sir Andrew Morritt (chancellor), Lady Justice Arden, Lord Justice Patten): 27 April 2010 ...
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Immigration
Administrative law – Torts – Deportation – Detention Abdillaahi Muuse (respondent) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (appellant): CA (Civ Div) (Sir Andrew Morritt (chancellor), Lord Justice Thomas, Sir Scott Baker): 27 April 2010 ...
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Employment
Age discrimination – Degrees – Indirect discrimination – Proportionality Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Maurice Kay, Richards): 27 ...
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Mediations double in two years
The number of mediations has doubled in the last two years, and most mediators expect workloads to increase, according to research seen exclusively by the Gazette. The fourth biennial survey of civil and commercial mediators, carried out by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), showed ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, April 1980 In the news:A licensing authority has told me of an amusing occurrence in ...
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Tell it like it is
To the discombobulation of not a few traditionalists, the campaign to adumbrate the probative value of a more unopaque expression of juridical vernacular continues to deliver outcome-based ramifications. Yes, Clarity, the group launched last year to promote plain English in the law, is going from strength to strength. Founding member ...
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Loose cannon
It’s not that uncommon for lawyers to have an exotic sideline. Readers of this column will know that solicitors can also be Elvis impersonators, belly dancers or, indeed, flamenco enthusiasts. But on (somewhat morbidly) perusing the Times’ obituaries section last week, Obiter was surprised to read of a solicitor who ...
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Flaming flamenco
Now that’s enough about football. After April’s article about belly dancing, Obiter has received a ticking-off from clinical negligence solicitor Sarah Harman of London firm Harman & Harman for so far failing to include this picture of herself (right) and criminal solicitor colleague Sonia Antolin, who both dance flamenco with ...
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Kenneth Clarke appointed as new justice secretary
Veteran Conservative and former chancellor Kenneth Clarke will be justice secretary in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government, it was announced this morning. He will also be lord chancellor. The 69-year-old is a former barrister, having been called to the bar by Gray’s Inn in 1963 and ...
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Cup of cheer
Four weeks to go and the World Cup piggybacking has kicked off, with Leeds firm Godloves scoring the opening goal. The ‘football mad’ firm is offering free wills advice to clients until 9 June – if England win the World Cup they won’t be billed. Sceptical readers might think it ...
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Can the hundreds unable to vote at the general election sue?
People who were denied the right to vote at the general election can sue the Electoral Commission, according to Geoffrey Robertson QC. Interviewed last Friday, Robertson suggested that disenfranchised voters would receive compensation of at least £750. That just happens to be the figure that ...
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Training and development must support the provision of high-quality service to clients
Throughout my legal career I have taken a keen interest in legal education and training. I was chairman of the governors of the College of Law until recently, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority has a pivotal position in the development of legal education and training.
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Firms are alive to the changing market and are adapting their business model
Like self-employed doctors or indeed barristers, solicitors are not feted for their business management skills. However, this year’s LMS Financial Benchmarking Survey gives one cause to reconsider that cliched perception.
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ABSs are getting closer – don’t waste time hoping reforms will be diluted
by Tony Guisea director of Guise Solicitors in London The Lawyers Defence Group’s call for government protection for high street firms (see [2010] Gazette, 29 April, 3) is about as likely to succeed as Canute’s attempt to stem the tide. As the Legal Services Act 2007 ...
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Flash back
The cartoon in Obiter of 29 April shows a camera flashing a van for speeding in relation to www.mybrief.com. The camera appears to be a classic Gatsometer which flashes but takes photos of the rear of the vehicle, not the front as in the cartoon.
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Insurance danger
It was reported in your news article on 12 April about Quinn Insurance that, of £5m of premiums due to the assigned risks pool underwriters, only £2m had been paid to date.
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Indian LPO Pangea3 opens in UK in European expansion drive
Indian legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider Pangea3 has opened an office in London as part of a concerted expansion drive in Europe. Brian Allan, vice-president of legal services in Europe, will head the office on London’s South Bank. He said the decision was taken because the ...
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Energy stocks, Poundland sells and housing developments
Power play: Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Indian energy company Essar Energy on its London Stock Exchange listing, which valued the company at around £5.5bn, potentially catapulting it into the FTSE-100 index. ...
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Lobbying firms under pressure to sign EU register of interests
Law firms that lobby EU institutions will face pressure to sign a register of interests after senior EU officials vowed to forge ahead with plans to boost transparency, the Gazette has learned. At a meeting in Brussels last Thursday, a working group of European commissioners and ...