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Summary Judgment
Solicitor - Undertaking - Claimant company seeking to finance purchase of ship Global Marine Drillships Ltd v Landmark Solicitors LLP and others: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Henderson): 24 October 2011 ...
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Damage limitation
In Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd v Pritchard [2011] EWCA Civ 329, [2011] All ER(D) 312 (Mar), the Court of Appeal considered whether contributory negligence could be raised as a defence to a claim for damages for the torts of assault and battery.
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Bankruptcy
Trustee in bankruptcy - Costs - Claimant trustee in bankruptcy commencing proceedings on behalf of estate Hunt (as trustee in bankruptcy of Janan George Harb) v Harb and another: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lords Justice ...
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Ex-Minster Law chief unveils claims.com
A Leeds-based claims management company which paid a seven-figure sum for its web address opens for business this week, with a strategy that includes buying its own law firm and becoming an alternative business structure. Chief executive Matthew Briggs, who formerly led the Yorkshire personal injury ...
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Alcoholism in profession ‘underestimated’
Widely publicised research findings that 15-24% of lawyers will suffer from alcoholism during their careers may underestimate the problem, the legal health support charity LawCare said this week. Among senior solicitors the figure is nearly one in three, a spokeswoman told the Gazette.
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‘Last chance’ to stop legal aid cuts - Khan
Only the House of Lords can preserve the notion of equality for everyone before the law, the shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan writes in the Gazette today. On the eve of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill reaching the Lords, Khan says ...
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Shock as firms fail in family legal aid bid
An unexpectedly high number of failed applications for family legal aid contracts has caused surprise in the sector. The Legal Services Commission announced this week that 93% of those who bid for the new family law contracts had been successful. Contracts have been offered to ...
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Coffin up for death
Here’s some news to cheer up our probate colleagues. Naturally, it concerns death and taxes. The Trouble with Dying, Sun Life Direct’s annual survey into the cost of dying, has concluded that the average final bill for joining the choir invisible has risen by £436 to £7,248 over the past ...
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Xmas cheer
Like Obiter, you may be a curmudgeon who dreads Christmas as a time for suffering relatives who have the temerity to earn more than you. If so, we have the perfect antidote to festive gloom - More Morello Letters, the sequel to the much-loved Morello ...
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Steamy get-together
Manchester-based personal injury firm Express Solicitors sent us this tender memento of a steamy get-together to mark the promotion of Sharon Denby, Margaret Bailey-Tsavalas and Rachel Flannigan to partnership. We’re not sure of the train of thought behind the shot, but we’re chuffed for them ...
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Off to the gulag
It was suggested following the summer riots that teachers should be given more power to discipline pupils. This reminded me of the late magistrate David Fingleton, who liked to say that since the death of Sir Robin Day he was now the rudest member of the Garrick.
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Civil advice phone gateway plan slammed
Government plans to make phone calls the main conduit for publicly funded advice in civil cases could increase the average time needed to give advice, according to new research. The government has proposed making a telephone helpline the ‘gateway’ to all legal aid advice in civil ...
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Chief magistrate praises defence solicitors over riots
The chief magistrate has praised the ‘exemplary skill and professionalism’ of defence solicitors in the summer riot courts, calling them ‘unsung heroes’. Senior district judge Howard Riddle said that without defence solicitors’ efforts the criminal justice system would not have been able to respond as it did to the unprecedented ...
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We must not swallow the argument that the police and courts initially responded well to the riots
I absolutely agree with Julian Young in respect of the under-acknowledged efforts of defence practitioners at the time of the riot arrests and courts.
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One-sided review
I read with interest the article by Joshua Rozenberg, and the letters from David Bermingham and Jago Russell.