Last 3 months headlines – Page 1689
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Anthony Edwards presented with outstanding achievement award
Anthony Edwards, senior partner at TV Edwards and Gazette contributor, was presented with the outstanding achievement award by Cherie Booth QC at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2008. Other winners included Jackson & Canter, which won Legal Aid Law Firm of the ...
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Lawyers slam tribunal scam
Lawyers have demanded that the Tribunals Service ‘join the 21st century’ before scammers overwhelm courts with multiple age-discrimination claims. The scam targets job advertisements containing ageist phrases like ‘newly qualified’. The scammers apply for all such jobs and, if not offered the posts, threaten to take ...
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High-visibility jackets accompany community sentences
From this week offenders carrying out community sentences must wear high-visibility jackets branded with the ‘community payback’ logo. Justice secretary Jack Straw (pictured, left, with home secretary Jacqui Smith, right) said: ‘The taxpayer has an absolute right to know what unpaid work is being done to pay back to them ...
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Copyright, music and exemption: playing music in public
A government review of copyright exemptions for playing of recorded music may force some not-for-profit bodies to turn off their TVs, radios and CD players. They and charitable bodies may soon decide that silence is golden if the repeal of current exemptions means they will have ...
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Immigration law
Entry clearances – Public order offences – Reasons – Snoop dog Cordozar Broadus (USA) v Entry Clearance Officer: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Laws, Carnwath, Richards): 13 November 2008 The ...
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Civil procedure
Costs – Allocation – Conduct – Multi-track – Small claims David Peakman v Linbrooke Services Ltd: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Goldring, Lady Justice Smith): 13 November 2008 The ...
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Human rights
Defamation – Education – Local government – Privacy – School exclusions H v Tomlinson: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Ward, Sedley, Longmore): 13 November 2008 The appellant head teacher ...
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Criminal law
Police – Torts – False imprisonment – Suspicion – Terrorism – Unlawful arrest Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Mohamed Raissi: CA (Civ Div) (Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, Lords Justice Maurice Kay, Stanley Burnton): ...
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Offshoring legal work: do lawyers risk outsourcing themselves?
When City firm Lovells was faced with reviewing more than a million documents as part of a major case, it decided to outsource the work to India – saving more than £3m in the process. This is a sign of the times – increasingly, client pressure over fees is prompting ...
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Unresolved issues relating to the role of the Supreme Court
Despite the refreshing openness of last week’s judicial seminar on the Supreme Court, some of the most difficult questions remain unanswered. We learned, for example, that more than 30 applications have been received for the three judicial posts that will have become vacant by next October ...
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The law of Property Act 1925 will not rescue clients
I refer to the unfortunate question raised in Calvert Solicitors’ letter, asking if the current recession is an ‘exceptional circumstance’ that would allow the return of a deposit under section 49(2) of the Law of Property Act 1925 (see [2008] Gazette, 13 November, 13).
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Amend the contract
Calvert raises a point which, during the downturn in the financial and property markets, could cause considerable grief for property buyers. This concerns a buyer whose deposit has been forfeited turning to his solicitor’s indemnity policy to recoup his loss. Notwithstanding the fact that the Law ...
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Land Registry DIY disaster
How embarrassing for the Land Registry. It thought it could handle all property transactions and cut out the solicitors with electronic conveyancing and their own rules. Now we find that electronic conveyancing is shelved and the rules have been changed to make solicitors the last line of defence against fraud ...
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Law Society Council: opportunity lost
I write in connection with your report of the Law Society Council debate on reform of Council’s size and composition (see [2008] Gazette, 20 November, 2).
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Overseas delivery charges
Offshoring receives an indifferent press, not least because most of us have, at some time, engaged in semantic jousts with poorly paid call centre operatives possessing an inadequate grasp of colloquial English. Punting customer-facing jobs to Mumbai or Manila is fraught with risk – witness the growing phenomenon of ‘reverse ...
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Peak practice
Matthew Davies, a partner at Hill Dickinson in Liverpool, got in touch after receiving a text message from a client stuck in a blizzard 4,000 metres up Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in the Caucasus (and, indeed, Europe). His client wanted legal advice after an expedition member was injured: what ...
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Rat race
No jokes about rodents and sinking ships, please. The above are esteemed members of the City of London Solicitors Company, sister to the City of London Law Society, which marks its centenary this year. This was not a Pied Piper-esque flushing out of City lawyers via the Thames. It was ...
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Who ate all the pies?
Physical, cerebral and now gastronomical – no challenge is too great for brand and reputation management lawyer, Denzil Gunner. The solicitor, from London firm Atkins, is marking his 30th birthday with a series of challenges to raise money for charities the British Heart Foundation and the Strokes Association. He swam ...
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Guess that's why they called it the blues...
‘This house believes that Britain has become a more safe, just and tolerant society under Labour. Debate.’ With the battlelines thus drawn, the Society of Conservative Lawyers locked horns with the Society of Labour Lawyers, with Marcel Berlins, Guardian journalist and law lecturer, chairing the protagorean feast. ...
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Sweet sixteen
A trio of doughty legal wordsmiths can look forward to a bubble this Christmas after solving – or nearly solving – our recent anagram competition. John Seagrave of A Broken Card (aka Barker and Co) in Hull, together with Giles Bennett of Devonshires (sod his nerve!) win special plaudits for ...