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John Wotton wins Law Society deputy vice-presidential election
John Wotton of magic circle firm Allen & Overy is set to become president of the Law Society in 2011 after this week winning the election for deputy vice-president. Wotton, 54, was a partner at Allen & Overy for 23 years and is now a consultant ...
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Plan for chief legal officer splits local government solicitors
A proposal that every local authority be required to appoint a qualified chief legal officer has attracted split responses from 70 different organisations. The Law Society and Solicitors in Local Government have proposed a change in the law to create the new role, replacing that ...
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Law Society to shoulder 90% of the cost of Legal Services Board
The Law Society will have to bear more than 90% of the initial set-up and running costs of the Legal Services Board and Office for Legal Complaints under plans published last week. Proposals for a levy to raise £15.1m for the new bodies appear ...
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Family practitioners condemn the government’s flat-fee proposals
Practitioner groups have condemned as ‘disastrous’ and ‘ill-considered’ proposals to change the way family lawyers are paid, claiming they will leave vulnerable families and children without adequate representation. The Family Justice Council said plans to introduce a fixed-fee advocacy scheme for family legal aid cases from ...
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MoJ and Insurance Fraud Bureau to share data on fraud
Data on criminal syndicates and solicitors involved in personal injury compensation scams will be shared between the Ministry of Justice and the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) under a new agreement, the Gazette has learned. The agreement will allow the MoJ and IFB, the insurance industry-funded fraud ...
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Top city firms tight-lipped on future of graduate training schemes
Two top City firms have remained tight-lipped over the future of their specialist graduate training schemes after asking prospective trainees to start work a year later than planned. Magic circle firms Clifford Chance and Linklaters, which have asked prospective trainees to volunteer to defer for a ...
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Olswang to make patent attorney partner in LDP move
City firm Olswang has become one of the first big corporate firms to take advantage of new business structure changes enabled by the Legal Services Act. The firm has applied to have one of its patent attorneys made a partner in the firm following the promotion ...
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Environment initiatives, business enterprises and broadcast news
Green deal: National firm Addleshaw Goddard advised a number of banks, led by Bank of Ireland, on financing a construction project by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The 25-year private finance initiative, worth an estimated £4bn, aims to boost recycling and reduce ...
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How come it’s taken so long for a LinkedIn for lawyers?
Really interesting little spat going on over at Nick Holmes’s Binary Law blog about whether Martindale Hubbell’s 'Connected' social networking site for lawyers is any good/worth getting into/old before it’s even born, it seems.
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KBF executives set up new legal lending firm
Executives behind the Iceland-funded legal lender that collapsed amid last autumn’s banking crisis have launched a new venture, offering a similar service based on what they say is a more robust funding model. Key Business Finance (KBF), which supplied nearly 15% of law firms in ...
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Interception and surveillance powers to be reined in by Home Office
The home secretary has announced plans to stop local authorities employing covert surveillance techniques for trivial purposes. Jacqui Smith launched a 12-week public consultation to review the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). It will look at ...
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Class war still to be fought in the legal profession
The law and other professions remain closed shops to many from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (see my story this week on the Cabinet Office report in which this was revealed).
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Vexatious requests, audit reports, data protection and disclosing legal advice
It is now four years since the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force. While the act is about opening up the public sector to more scrutiny through access to recorded information, parliament has recognised the importance of ensuring that public authorities are protected from vexatious requests that waste ...
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Employment
Company law – Determining employment status of shareholders and directors Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform v (1) Richard Neufeld (2) Keith Howe: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Rix, Toulson, Rimer): 2 April 2009 ...
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Insolvency
Landlord and tenant - Business tenancies - Companies - Liquidation Gabriella Shaw v Hazel Doleman: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Stanley Burnton, Elias): 1 April 2009 The appellant ...
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Compromise – Lump sum payments – Shares – Valuation Brian Alan Myerson v Ingrid Diane Myerson: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Sullivan, Lady Justice Smith): 1 April 2009 ...
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Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules
Part 79The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2008 (SI No.3085) were made on 2 December 2008 and came into force on 4 December 2008.
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The judiciary needs more solicitors to become judges
I am grateful to the Gazette for providing me with an opportunity to write directly to solicitors about judicial office. There is a considerable public interest in the availability of high-quality candidates for judicial appointment, from whichever branch of the legal profession they may come.
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Power in numbers: making sense of the numbers behind commercial litigation
There are ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’, said the Victorian politician Benjamin Disraeli (allegedly), but numbers and statistics can also help uncover the truth – or at least the facts.
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Zero tolerance of ‘solicitor bashing’ of any kind
Tim Lawson-Cruttenden is chairman of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates In recent weeks the standard of solicitor advocacy has been the subject of ...