Last 3 months headlines – Page 1404
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Are we at saturation point with rights?
The European Commission - or at any rate its justice arm - is big on rights. Justice commissioner Viviane Reding has recently published two important packages covering, first, suspects’ and defendants’ rights (the so-called Measure C, which will give the right to a lawyer anywhere ...
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Restricting arrests for crimes of universal jurisdiction is more about politics than legal principles
Joshua Rozenberg is ready to support ‘reasons of state’ for restricting the right to ask a magistrate to authorise the first step in the private prosecution of a suspected war criminal.
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A criminal expense
I would like to make a comment in the debate about government legal aid cuts. There should be a distinction between criminal and civil legal aid. To my knowledge, criminal legal aid has always been dealt with differently. ...
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Face up to fraud
I could not agree more with Mr Borman’s letter of 23 June. Clients do ‘want something tangible’ to hold and be able to take pride in property ownership. However I feel there is a bigger issue. ...
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Paper deeds hope
Further to Mr Haworth’s letter of 16 June, I concur entirely with his view. I wrote to the Weymouth Land Registry in March on the topical subject of property fraud and in response to my plea for the return of the humble Land Certificate I ...
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Get it right
When I saw the caption beneath the photograph illustrating my article ‘Getting a Get’, which you kindly published on 16 June, I was somewhat perplexed, as I was not aware that a wife would display her rings in her hands in the rabbinical court, meaning she’s succeeded in having her ...
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Arbitration
Award - Russian courts - Claimant seeking interest payments in England Yukos Capital SARL v OJSC Rosneft Oil Company: Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Hamblen): 14 June 2011 ...
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Divorce and inherited assets
Earlier this year I provided an update regarding the family courts’ treatment of inherited assets upon divorce. Since then, two of the judgments discussed in that article have been subject to Court of Appeal decisions.
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Human rights committee is making unrealistic demands on extradition
Is it easier for the United States to have a suspect extradited from the United Kingdom than it is for the UK to get someone handed over by the US? Ever since the US-UK extradition treaty was signed in 2003, there have been complaints that ...
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Tweeter fix
Obiter is always keen to hear from Jonathan Djanogly, notwithstanding the rather sour taste left by his recent communications on legal aid. And we smelt a gold-plated scoop last week when the Twitter feed from @JonDjanogly offered up evidence of a leadership plot at the ...
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Shaggy dog story
A Cumbrian solicitor is taking on a different type of trial as he leads a world competition later this year. Nigel Davis (pictured) is the chair of the organising committee for the 2011 World Sheepdog Trials being held in September. The event ...
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School trip
A-level students at Longslade Community College in Leicester were treated to a ‘brief visit’ recently, as Justine Flack (pictured, right), family solicitor at Howes Percival, and Imogen Cox (left), director at Cartwright King, went back to school for the day. The pair led a series ...
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Chancery Lane escalates legal aid fight
The Law Society is stepping up its campaign to block coalition reforms of legal aid and civil litigation funding which it says will leave the civil justice system ‘at the edge of an abyss’. The move comes as the House of Commons’ health committee warned this ...
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Lenders vet solicitors on Google
Credit checking law firms and monitoring the timeliness with which they register charges are among measures being considered and in some cases adopted by lenders seeking to clamp down on mortgage fraud. One large lender is also demanding the introduction of a compulsory scheme under ...
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Personal injury firms join forces over thalidomide claims
Two leading personal injury firms have joined forces to represent those affected by the drug thalidomide. London firm Leigh Day & Co and national firm Russell Jones & Walker this week launched the Thalidomiders Legal Group to pursue compensation claims on behalf of people in the ...
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Late bid to amend Quality Assurance Advocacy Scheme
Talks will be held this week in an eleventh-hour bid to rationalise the scope of the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA). The scheme, which will accredit advocates at one of four levels, was approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority at the start of the ...
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Opening Dors
Sometimes I wonder how I ever managed to qualify. In those days the Law Society’s College of Law (or was it school in the 1950s?) was in Lancaster Gate. Even in the early morning, the pavement from Lancaster Gate tube ...