Last 3 months headlines – Page 1423
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Sentencing
Deferment of sentence - Exercise of power of deferment - Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm Attorney General's Reference (No 62 of 2011); R v Johnson: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mrs Justice ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Robbery Attorney General's Reference (Nos 48 and 49 of 2011); R v Stokes and another The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division held, as unduly ...
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Custodial sentence - Young offenders - Detention and Training order R v T: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: 16 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, held that ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v Scarth: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lords Justice Pitchford, Wilkie, Mr Justice Holroyde (judgment delivered extempore)): 9 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, ...
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Sentencing
Non-custodial sentence - Suspended sentence Attorney General's Reference (No 64 of 2011); R v Crawford: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lords Justice Pitchford, Wilkie and Mr Justice Holroyde (judgment delivered extempore)): 14 September 2011 ...
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LeO dealing with lawyers who don't engage
Nearly a year into the life of the Legal Ombudsman and we have seen thousands of cases. These cases are not quite as we thought they would be when we started - nothing in our modelling prepared us for family law overtaking conveyancing as the most complained about area of ...
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Intellectual Property
Trademarks - Community trademark Meredith Corp v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM): General Court of the European Union (Fourth Chamber) (Judges Pelikanova (President), Jurimae (Rapporteur) and Van der Woude): 7 September 2011 ...
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Intellectual Property
Trademarks - 'Likelihood of confusion' Omnicare Inc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs): General Court of the European Union (First Chamber) (Judges Azizi (President), Cremona and Frimodt Nielsen (Rapporteur)): 9 September 2011 ...
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Supermarket sweep?
Obiter-friend Michael Mansfield QC is a candidate in an arcane election that is due to ‘hot up’ in the next fortnight. We speak of the ‘Election for the Office of Chancellor’ at the University of Cambridge, which takes place on 14 and 15 October. Mansfield ...
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Language barriers
Obiter’s stout defence of the language against the depredations of modernity is proving to be cathartic. James Pinder, a partner at DWF in Preston, has fired off his own list of pet hates. ‘Why is a plan or strategem now a "road map"? And why do ...
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Hanging about
It’s easy - just don’t look down! That was Obiter’s advice to the brave folk from US firm Reed Smith who, along with paralympic wheelchair racing hopeful Nikki Emerson, abseiled 540 feet from the top of the Broadgate Tower, City of London. They helped the ...
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Running the show
The Olympic Games are racing ever closer and first over the line for the legal profession is former schoolboy sprint hurdles record holder, Paul Trincas. Now a partner at Newbury firm Charles Lucas & Marshall, Trincas is to be one of 200 officials helping ensure ...
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Lawyers slam ‘chaotic’ asylum unit
The UK’s system for registering asylum claims is chaotic and unworkable and urgently needs a root-and-branch overhaul, lawyers’ groups allege. Problems at the ‘Kafkaesque’ asylum screening unit in Croydon (pictured), the only such unit remaining after a similar unit in Liverpool closed in 2009, have ...
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Indemnity insurance renewal ‘less frantic’
Solicitors are reporting a less turbulent renewal round for professional indemnity insurance this year as the deadline approaches, although prices have risen steeply for some mid-sized firms. Hilary Underwood, chairwoman of the Sole Practitioners Group, said there have yet to be any complaints from members ...
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SRA consults on referral fees ban
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to canvass personal injury firms dependent on referral fees to ask how they will cope when the government moves to ban the payments. Richard Collins, SRA director of standards, told a LexisNexis conference on professional regulation that the authority was identifying ...