Last 3 months headlines – Page 1415
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College of Law offers voluntary redundancies
The College of Law has begun a review of staffing levels and is to offer a voluntary redundancy package to staff across its eight centres. A spokesman for the College said: ‘We hope no compulsory redundancies will be necessary. 'This review ...
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Excellence awards open for entries
The Gazette opened nominations for its Legal Personality of the Year award this week, following the success of last year’s inaugural award. The Gazette award forms part of a suite of Law Society Excellence Awards designed to recognise outstanding individuals and teams within the profession. ...
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Criminal procedure
Sentencing - Jurisdiction - Life prisoners - Mandatory life imprisonment R v Norman Hull: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mr Justice Wilkie, Judge Nicholas Cooke QC): 19 May 2011 ...
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Criminal procedure
Acquittals - Double jeopardy - Fresh evidence - Murder R v Dobson: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mrs Justice Rafferty, Mr Justice Holroyde): 18 May 2011 The ...
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Local government
Housing - Intentional homelessness - Priority needs - Temporary accommodation Oxford City Council v Darren Bull: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Pill, Jackson, Tomlinson): 18 May 2011 The appellant local ...
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Landlord and tenant
Disrepair - Landlords’ duties - Repair covenants - Residential tenancies Tanya Grand v Param Gill: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Thomas, Lloyd, Rimer): 19 May 2011 The appellant tenant (T) ...
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Landlord and tenant
Assured shorthold tenancies - Notice - Possession - Prescribed forms Jasbir Kaur Kahlon v Andrew Isherwood: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Rix, Stanley Burnton, Patten): 19 May 2011 The appellant ...
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Human rights
Police - Declarations of incompatibility - DNA samples - Fingerprints R (on the application of GC) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: R (on the application of C) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: SC (Justices of ...
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Pre-action admissions
It is now well established that part 14 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which deals with admissions, does not apply to pre-action admissions (see Sowerby v Charlton [2005] EWCA Civ 1610, which was later confirmed in Stoke on Trent CC v Whalley [2006] EWCA Civ 1137). ...
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Insolvency remuneration
In recent years, there has been a good deal of concern as the result of a fairly general perception that costs in insolvency cases have reached an unacceptably high level.’ So said Mr Justice Ferris in Mirror Group plc v Maxwell and others (No 2) ...
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Responding in the fight to keep the best lawyers
In such a tough economic climate, you would have thought assistants and associates would be keeping their heads down – and counting their blessings that they have a job at all. Not so. They’ve never been so demanding, claim some firms, and firms in turn ...
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Avoiding a constitutional standoff
I agree entirely with Joshua Rozenberg. Newspapers would help their own cause by just reporting the news and not stretching extra-marital tittle-tattle to several pages in each daily edition. Not door-stepping errant spouses and their young families would also be a ...
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Bad claim form?
Under paragraph 5.1 of practice direction 7A of the Civil Procedure Rules: ‘Proceedings have started when the court issues a claim form at the request of the claimant, but where the claim form as issued was received in the court office on a date earlier than the date on which ...
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Commercial interest
If I arrived in the UK without any knowledge of Clementi, Jackson, the Legal Services Act, the MoJ portal for low-value RTA claims, the CMC boom and the ‘compensation culture’, I might be forgiven for believing that ‘there are few areas where Britain is stronger than in the law’. ...
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Duplication cost
I was admitted to the roll in January 2010. I declined to attend an admission ceremony (not my cup of tea). I assumed that my admission certificate would be put in the post but alas it did not arrive. ...
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Parity proposal
I would say to Ilex president Mr McGrady (‘Ilex chief in parity plea’) that if he wants parity, he and his members should try and qualify as solicitors. Barry Brooks, Brooks & Co, Fetcham, Surrey
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Focus set squarely on tackling legal concerns
This is my penultimate podium – and while I have a busy diary for the month ahead, I am naturally starting to think about all that has taken place at Chancery Lane since I became president last July. There has been no quiet time during my ...
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National protests against legal aid cuts
Legal aid campaigners are to step up the pressure on government by holding marches across the country tomorrow in protest at the legal aid reforms to be outlined in the Justice Bill, expected next week. The ‘day of action’, organised by Justice for All and ...
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Fingerprint standards questioned by Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has called for an examination of the quality standards of fingerprint experts. The court last week quashed the conviction of Peter Kenneth Smith from Nottinghamshire for the murder of his neighbour Hilda Owen in 2007, after doubt was cast on the reliability ...
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Law firms running out of time, warns Mayson
Time is running out for law firms that have not yet considered the changes they should make to compete with new entrants to the legal market, a leading commentator has suggested. Speaking at the Law Society’s Law Management Section conference, Stephen Mayson, director of the Legal ...