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CPS lawyer pleads guilty to bribe charge
A Crown Prosecution Service lawyer has admitted taking a share of a £20,000 bribe to drop a case. Sarfraz Ibrahim, a barrister who was the head of the advocacy unit at Gwent CPS, yesterday (Monday) admitted corruption, perverting the course of justice and misconduct in public ...
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Some lessons for the Legal Services Board
The Legal Services Board can take a leaf out of the American Bar Association’s book when planning its next radical review of legal services.
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Solicitor discrimination
I was unable recently to act on behalf of a client in a conveyancing transaction because my firm was already acting on behalf of her seller. The client instructed a local licensed conveyancer to act on her behalf. On speaking with her conveyancer a few days later, I was reminded ...
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In defence of defenders
There is a belief to some extent within the profession, and to a greater extent without, that those who practise criminal law are not of the same standard or calibre as solicitors who do not. From the profession’s point of view, this is because we rely ...
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In the real world
I wonder whether your anonymous solicitor in the 27 May issue has any idea of the overheads of a solicitor's practice? As a sole fee-earner and without being burdened with rent, I can say that the overheads of my practice of many years approximate £100,000 per ...
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Law shops are the future
So the Law Society is to spend £422,000 telling people what they already know, namely, that they can turn to a solicitor for legal advice because solicitors are ‘qualified to answer’. Is this money well spent and properly targeted as far as the public and the ...
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Reasonable charges
May I be allowed to respond to Ms Watson's letter in the 3 June Gazette, from the point of view of the solicitor acting for the management company? I frequently receive requests for information from solicitors acting for buyers and sellers of flats. Invariably, I receive a pre printed questionnaire ...
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Sharia law and diversity
Your report on the challenge to Sharia Law by the One Law for All Campaign has highlighted a concern I have had for some time. Peter Tatchell is quoted as generally opposing sharia jurisprudence as homophobic, sexist and anti-democratic.
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Fundamental principles
Roger Smith's analysis of the shameful killing of Baha Mousa overlooks the significance of acquittal following trial under due process of law. The Labour politicians who sent the army into Iraq required a senior officer to appear in the dock alongside non commissioned ...
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Herbert Smith sees rise in both income and profits
City firm Herbert Smith has increased both its turnover and average profits per equity partner (PEP) this year. Unveiling its 2009/10 financial results today, the top-10 firm (pictured) reported turnover up slightly to £450m from £444m in 2008/09, with PEP 2% higher at £862,000. ...
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The Council of Europe costs one euro a year – and it’s worth every cent
Heard the one about the Council of Europe? It’s worse than a bureaucracy – it’s a Eurocracy. Boom-boom! I’ve just got back from the Council of Europe (CoE) – I was reporting on the parliamentary assembly last week in Strasbourg – and, despite the almost universal cynicism typified by the ...
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International in-house pay survey shows that seniors are suffering
Senior in-house lawyers have fared much worse than their junior colleagues in the pay stakes over recent years, research has suggested. The average salary for a UK in-house lawyer with 10 years’ post-qualification experience (PQE) dropped 7% between 2004 and 2010, to £89,000 from £95,500, according ...
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Criminal procedure
Admissibility – Confessions – Theft – Trial within a trial R v Bhavna Dhorajiwala: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Aikens, Mr Justice Slade, Judge Wadsworth QC): 9 June 2010 The ...
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Immigration
Asylum – Ethiopia – Persecution – Refugees Secretary of State for the Home Department v St (Eritrea): CA (Civ Div): (Sir Anthony May (president QB), Lords Justices Longmore, Stanley Burnton)9 June 2010 ...
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The law regarding entrapment
The law is unclear as to how much protection is afforded to those entrapped by undercover journalists into committing criminal offences, says David Sleight
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Memory Lane
Law Society’s Gazette, June 1970 Editorial With Election ’70 in full blast – or should we say full ...
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A spot of bother
Typical. Even a celebrity England football team manage to blow it from the penalty spot. Worse, they lose with the winning penalty taken by a Yank. Captained by crooner Robbie Williams (pictured), this Soccer Aid England team, also comprising boxer Ricky Hatton, X Factor something-or-other Olly Murs and a good ...
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Civil procedure
Automatic striking out – Litigants in person – Non-compliance – Unduly harsh sanction Kinsley v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis: CA (Civ Div): (Lords Justices Ward, Thomas, Pitchford): 9 June 2010 ...
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35 years and counting
Obiter thinks it is high time we revived our celebration of loyal legal PAs. Step forward Sharon Charters, who has clocked up 35 years at Stephensons in Bolton. Sharon joined what was then Berry’s Solicitors as an office junior straight from school, before ...
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The deficiencies of the legal aid payment regime
Jon Robins freelance journalist and editor of Closing the Justice Gap ‘A breathtaking risk’ was the damning assessment of the cross-party constitutional affairs select committee of Lord Carter’s plan to scrap the hourly ...