Last 3 months headlines – Page 1734
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Family law
Care orders – Children – Parental contact Re H (a child): CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Ward, Lloyd): 25 September 2008 The appellant mother (M) appealed against a care order ...
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Local government
Council tax – Motorwatys – Noise pollution – Tax bans – Valuation Charlton-Merryweather v Hunt & ors: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Waller, Rix, Dyson): 19 September 2008. The appellant ...
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Arbitration
Real property – Mining – Coal authority – Compensation – Loss – Subsidence Coal Authority v (1) FW Davidson (2) WE Davidson: QBD (TCC) (Mr Justice Coulson): 9 September 2008. ...
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Family law: forced marriages
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 is due to come into force on 25 November, White Ribbon day, when people will be encouraged to wear a white ribbon to show that they do not condone violence towards women. The act will insert a new part 4A into the Family ...
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Personal injury: definition of work equipment
Spencer-Franks v Kellogg Brown and Root Limited and others (2008) UK HL46: Lords Hoffmann, Rodger, Carswell, Mance and Neuberger.
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Law in a cold climate
In response to our inquiry about solicitors braving the Arctic (see Obiter, 25 September), we have been sent a chilling tale. In fact Alistair Duff, a partner at HBJ Gateley Wareing has a number of stories to tell. It all started in 1987, when Duff, along ...
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Two men in a boat
Charles Russell solicitor Charlie Marlow has launched his bid to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic (see [2008] Gazette, 5 June, 8) by winning a race in the stormy waters off Plymouth. Marlow and friend Matthew Mackaness are to row alternate two-hour shifts for the ...
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Run, corporate restructuring specialists, run
John Potts, Claire Javelea, Paul Williams, Rebecca Warner, Andy Stoneman, Nicola Harnor and Jason Godefroy are some of the staff and clients of corporate restructuring specialists MCR who will be sweating buckets by running – or walking – the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon. ...
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Taking stock after 30 years
Recession may be looming, but Manchester firm Harold Stock & Co knows how to throw a party. To celebrate its thirtieth birthday the generous firm took 41 of its employees on a no-expense-spared weekend trip to Barcelona. Mark Ryan, senior partner, said: ‘Thirty years in business is a real milestone ...
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Review of regulation
A separate compliance regime for big City corporate firms is to be considered as part of a profession-wide review of regulation, the Gazette can reveal. The development comes amid indications that some of the UK’s biggest practices are considering alternatives to the existing system of ...
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Firm breaks new ground by sending PI work to South Africa
Personal injury cases are to be outsourced to South Africa this week in the first trial of its kind, the Gazette has learned. Hertfordshire firm Underwoods has signed a deal with an unnamed practice to test whether road traffic accident (RTA) cases that fall under the ...
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New advice for detainees branded 'illegal' in report
Suspects’ rights to consult a solicitor of their choice have been undermined by potentially illegal reforms to the legal aid process, leading academics said this week. Professors Lee Bridges and Ed Cape, of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College, London, accused ...
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Wall Street task force
The American Bar Association (ABA) is to establish a high-level task force on financial services regulation in response to the crisis on Wall Street. In an exclusive interview with the Gazette, President Tommy Wells said the initiative is partly aimed at defending the principle of ...
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First year of OPG dogged by delays and disruption
A damning report into the first 12 months of the body charged with protecting people lacking mental capacity to make decisions for themselves has revealed a track record of delays, inaccurate information and inefficiency. The body, the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), came into being ...
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Online complaints plan on hold
Controversial plans to publish complaints against solicitors online have been shelved. In a long-awaited decision, the Legal Complaints Service (LCS) this week said it still favours the idea – but passed responsibility for any scheme to its successor body, which comes into being in 2010.
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Legal aid a 'cottage industry'
Government policies are creating a ‘cottage industry’ of legal aid provision, with large firms being driven out of the market, solicitors warned this week as a major firm shed its bulk criminal legal aid practice. Hickman & Rose, whose managing partner Jane Hickman is a ...
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Blue collar
District judges sported their new Betty Jackson-designed robes as they processed from Westminster Abbey to the judges’ breakfast in the Palace of Westminster to mark the opening of the legal year last week. To fit in with their judicial colleagues they wore barristers’ wigs for the occasion, but these will ...
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Legal aid leads Europe
England and Wales has fewer courts per head of population than Belgium, Ireland or the Russian Federation, but spends at least four times more on legal aid than any other Council of Europe jurisdiction, an official survey reveals this week. The Council’s European Commission for the ...
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Call for ban over HIPs
An investigation that exposed home information packs (HIPs) as flawed has prompted calls for insurance-backed personal searches to be banned. Birmingham Trading Standards inspected HIPs at 15 estate agents, randomly selecting six packs for scrutiny. Five contained false or misleading search information. ...