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Co-op launches advertising campaign in legal services drive
The Co-operative Group is to launch a fresh campaign to promote its legal services to food shoppers in its 3,000 supermarkets nationwide. The news comes as the group, which aims to be one of the first alternative business structures, told the Gazette that it believes ‘the ...
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Call for opening up of search data
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) has called on the government to consult on legislation requiring local authorities to provide open and free access to property information. In a ‘manifesto’ published last week, CoPSO said councils were arbitrarily restricting access to data and ‘urgent action’ ...
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‘No action needed’ on Quinn Insurance
The Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Law Society have both issued statements reassuring Quinn Insurance policyholders that they do not need to take action after permanent administrators were appointed to the Irish insurer yesterday. The SRA said that the full administration of Quinn under Irish ...
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A conveyancing conundrum that shows the value of high street firms
It’s a long time since I studied land law at university (about 17 years actually), but working as I do in the legal press, sometimes family members expect me to know a bit more about the niceties of conveyancing procedure than I actually do.
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Lord chief justice has emphasised the importance of judicial independence
If there is one legal issue that’s likely to make headlines during the election campaign, it is human rights. So there was some surprise when the lord chief justice touched on such a controversial topic in a speech released just a few days before the election was called – even ...
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Are immigration solicitors an endangered species?
The current climate for solicitors who practise non-legally aided immigration is arduous to say the least.
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Legal profession
Legal advice and funding – Breach – Conditional fee agreements – Reasons Carlo Moise Silvera v (1) Bray Walker Solicitors (a firm) (2) Bevans Bray Walker Ltd (T/A Bevans): CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Pill, Wilson, Richards): 29 ...
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Defamation
Chiropractors – Fair comment – Libel – Evidence British Chiropractic Association v Singh: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Chief Justice Judge, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Sedley): 1 April 2010 ...
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Practical consequences of Twomey case for non-jury trials
Solicitors need to start thinking about the practical consequences of Twomey for non-jury trials, explains Seth Levine
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, April 1980 Letter to the editorWe have rather an eccentric client who recently failed to ...
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Bringing lawyers to life
They say image isn’t everything, but whoever ‘they’ are, they clearly have no idea about what it takes to succeed as a modern law firm. Why else would so many firms feel moved to rebrand or relaunch? The latest to jump on the bandwagon is London firm Fisher Meredith. It ...
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Royal mint?
Everyone knows the Queen never carries cash. And nor, it seems, do other members of the aristocracy. According to a report by the Press Association, London firm Davenport Lyons has apparently issued proceedings against the Duchess of York, claiming that Sarah Ferguson has failed to stump up the readies for ...
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Beer window
When the tantalising tendrils of summer sun start warming this green and pleasant land, Obiter’s thoughts naturally turn to one thing: the silky chill of a hard-earned, post-work hop-based beverage. This becomes somewhat more than a yearning should one ever visit the offices of brewers SABMiller on a warm day.
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Belly good show
Think of belly dancing and what image comes to mind? To poetic Obiter, it is a scene of lissome ladies shimmering to exotic music while a handsome sheik, mesmerised, looks on. Outside, the desert wind whispers in the palm trees, plucks at the canvas of the tent and ripples the ...
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Libel lawyers should disclose outcomes of their CFA-funded cases
by Gillian Phillips, director of editorial legal services at Guardian News & Media Ltd Steven Heffer can’t resist the temptation to overstate his case (see [2010] Gazette, 9 April, 6). It is simply not the case that the press has ‘chosen not to report the ...
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Keep the Scottish legal profession united?
‘It's never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine,’ quipped PG Wodehouse. And it’s fair to say that a great many Scots – or Scottish solicitors at any rate – have a grievance pertaining to the nation’s embrace of ‘Tesco law’.
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Power in a union
I was dismayed to read the remarks about trade unions attributed to the president of the Law Society when he wrote to the shadow justice secretary inviting a future Conservative government to repeal immediately the Damages-Based Agreements Regulations.
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Recipe for fraud
The Law Society’s insert in the 25 March Gazette highlighted the issue of fraud in relation to money laundering and mortgages. To my mind it beggars belief that, in the same issue, it is reported that the Land Registry is consulting (again) on electronic signatures and ...
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New housing association, retail acquisitions and manufacturer deals
Going Dutch: National firm DLA Piper advised a consortium of lenders on providing debt financing for Dutch retail group Maxeda, enabling it to pay €462.5m (£408m) of debt owed to Citibank. Maxeda and its shareholders were advised by ...