Last 3 months headlines – Page 1762
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Abusing the system
Ex parte applications should only be used in exceptional situations, say Suzanne Stephenson and Stephen Gerlis
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Legal Complaints Service hits improvement targets
GOAL: 67% of files closed within three months of receipt The Legal Complaints Service (LCS) achieved year-on-year improvements in all of ...
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Web advice to help lawyers with change
The Sole Practitioners Group (SPG) is launching a new online toolkit to help members cope with changes in the legal sector, including the introduction of alternative business structures (ABSs). The toolkit, sponsored by Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBoS), will give support and guidance on setting up and running ...
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'Solicitors must plan ahead or risk losing everything'
Sole practitioners risk intervention and 'losing everything they have worked for' if they neglect planning for the day they stop practising - delegates at last weekend's annual conference of the Sole Practitioners Group (SPG) in Brighton were warned. Guildford-based probate solicitor Jennifer Margrave said the Code of Conduct ...
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City firm report increased mid-market competition as pool of M&A deals shrinks
HARD MARKETING: magic circle chasing smaller transactions as credit crunch bites Magic circle firms have begun pitching for middle-market business as the pool of blockbusting merger and acquisition deals shrinks, according to competitors outside the circle. At the same ...
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Deals of the week
Liquid deal: City firms CMS Cameron McKenna and Field Fisher Waterhouse advised Luminar Group Holdings, the UK’s largest operator of licensed late-night venues, on a corporate reorganisation and the subsequent sale of 26 bars to Cavendish Bars, advised by City firm Berwin Leighton ...
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Hounding out bad law
Dangerous dogs legislation must be improved to be fit for purpose, argues Chris Laurence
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Shining a light
Ministers need guidance on anti-terror legislation, but can judges properly give it to them?
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Mind the pay gap
I read last week's letter 'cheap labour' with interest (see [2008] Gazette, 29 May, 11). There is undoubtedly an issue with regard to employees within the same organisation being paid differently to staff in similar roles. I do not think that it is contentious to say that this problem is ...
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Cry for help
Can I draw together three recent threads of correspondence in these pages? 1. The anonymous solicitor who wrote describing how they had specialised in a now contracted sector of work and, while too young and too poor to retire, was apparently considered too old to be re-trained elsewhere ...
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No logo
Why does the Law Society need to spend £450,000 on a national advertising campaign? Surely all we need to do is follow the example of our colleagues in the surveyor's profession and utilise the logo of our representative body. We all like the Law Society's logo. Your correspondents repeatedly lament ...
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Leeds leads
Your article on the growing legal scene in Manchester was entitled 'second city?' (see [2008] Gazette, 22 May, 18), but it did not substantiate that headline. Rather, you factually reported the undoubted strengths of the Manchester region.
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Which way next?
If Which? is to move from being an independent critic of legal services to set up its own law firm (see [2008] Gazette, 29 May, 1), then it can hardly claim to be 'the brand that conveys... credibility'. Perhaps it should change its name from 'Which?' to 'Us'. ...
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File guide
As a niche specialist legal aid practitioner I have noticed that any enhancement on civil claims made to the north-east regional office rarely exceeds 30% on selected items, whereas the Supreme Court Costs Office tends to be more generous. Almost every case taken to a review by an independent adjudicator ...
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Test story for Obiter
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Test for Opinion story
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Mutual will arrangements
Olins v Walters [2007] EWHC 3060 Ch is a short judgment but it contains many interesting points.
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Rowing machine
More lawyerly derring-do - this time courtesy of insurance solicitor and Obiter regular Carolyn Kirkham.
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Fighting fit
Ken Dickinson of NAS Advocates is not the only fighting-fit solicitor of, shall we say, 'mature years' (see [2008] Gazette, 15 May, 8). Adam Wershof, a 46-year-old litigation lawyer at London firm Wiseman Lee, says he gets his kicks from 'fighting off a five-man attack at ju-jitsu training'. As well ...