Last 3 months headlines – Page 2826
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Portal protestors issue letter before action
Personal injury lawyers have started a process that could lead to a judicial review into reforms planned for the Road Traffic Accident Portal next April.
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New portal fees threaten access to justice, says Society
Thousands of personal injury solicitors face uncertain futures after the government unveiled plans to slash fees for road traffic accident work.
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My legal life: Sarosh Zaiwalla
My late father was a solicitor. In 1925 he became one of the first, if not the first, Indians to qualify as an English solicitor. I trained at Stocken & Co in Fleet Street. They were maritime lawyers. The hardest challenges I faced as a lawyer came in my early ...
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Co-op ABS will help ‘end advice deserts’
Alternative business structures with national spread such as the Co-operative Legal Services will end the problem of ‘advice deserts’, a senior member of the Legal Services Commission has suggested. Ruth Wayte, the LSC’s director of legal and service development, said she was ‘particularly excited by the Co-op’s client focus’.
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NewsLord chancellor takes a constitutional in the Lords
The first question Chris Grayling had to field before the House of Lords’ formidable Constitution Committee yesterday looked like an easy toss: would he prefer to be addressed secretary of state or lord chancellor?
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EU withdrawal: at what price for lawyers?
I hope that the in-house journals of every trade and profession in the UK are now running articles like this, containing an assessment of the consequences for each particular sector of the UK withdrawing from the EU. It is obvious from the newspapers that we are in danger of sleepwalking ...
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My legal life: Margaret Owen
At Cambridge I did a lot of acting and seriously thought about a career in the theatre. But I decided to go for the bar, imagining myself a sort of ‘Portia’, fighting for the disadvantaged. My springboard into gender and women’s rights was being appointed head of law and policy ...
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Future-proofing the LeO
Winter is closing in. Here in the Midlands we have been under the threat of deluge for weeks. The only thing more common than flood warnings are the German sausages being enthusiastically chomped down by visitors to Birmingham’s Christmas market. And, as is increasingly the case, many colleagues here at ...
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Adviser warns on traffic accident portal fees
Major upheaval of the personal injury sector is happening too quickly and without evidence to support it, according to the government’s own adviser on the subject.
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My legal life: Christopher Murray
Both of my parents were in the medical profession but as a small child I remember listening to my mother talking about the iniquity of capital punishment – prompted by the Reginald Christie trial – and the likelihood that Timothy Evans had been wrongly hanged for a murder Christie had ...
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My legal life: Helena Kennedy QC
I had from the beginning an idealistic idea that I could be the kind of lawyer who might change things for ordinary people. I thought law could be used as a protection and as a tool for social change. I set up a legal advice centre with a social worker ...
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How To: create a shared back-office
Tuckers is a criminal law firm – one of the UK’s largest. We cover practice areas where margins have been severely challenged by changes in public policy and public funding. In February 2012, we announced our intention to make our billing, diary management and other back-office operations available to rival ...
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Twenty Twenty-four
It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks, like everything else, were striking. Not that anybody noticed. Hilda Smith, her chin nuzzled into her breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the doors of Oceania Legal Services Plc. She was just in ...
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Cool reaction to European patent unification
Leading intellectual property lawyers in the UK have reacted coolly to the unitary patent and unified patent court process approved by the European parliament on Tuesday. ‘No one can doubt that having a single system is, in principle, a good idea,’ said Claire Bennett, partner in international firm DLA Piper's ...
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Fiji rule of law report found in contempt
A Methodist minister in Fiji is awaiting sentencing for contempt after he quoted a Law Society Charity report whose contents were first revealed in the Gazette. The organisation headed by the Reverend Akuila Yabaki, the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum, also faces a crippling fine for ‘scandalising the court’ after its newsletter ...
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NewsAssociation for the Study of Animal Behaviour
ASAB exists to further the understanding of animal behaviour at all educational levels, and to promote research that improves animal welfare and conservation.