Last 3 months headlines – Page 1499
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Tributes paid following death of Lord Bingham
Tributes have been paid to Lord Bingham of Cornhill, the former lord chief justice and one of the pre-eminent judges of his generation, following his death on Saturday. He had been suffering from cancer and died at his home in Wales aged 76. ...
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Mortgage fraud will cause problems for solicitors
The downturn in the global economy caused, as many believe by a property asset bubble, ended as all do by showing who was swimming naked when the tide went out. On this occasion it was the banks that for years had been fuelling the bubble with ...
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Why government is taking wrong approach to cutting lawyers’ jobs
As the Gazette reported this week, the government’s spending review, to report next month, will lead to substantial cuts in the ranks of the 2,000-strong Government Legal Service.
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Downing Street backing for Djanogly over Telegraph claims
Downing Street has expressed ‘full confidence’ in justice minister Jonathan Djanogly, who is in charge of legal aid, following claims in the Telegraphtoday that the minister hired private detectives to find out what his colleagues thought of him. The newspaper reported that Djanogly paid a private ...
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Guidance on ABS discussions may be amended
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to review its current guidance on what arrangements firms may enter into with other businesses when alternative business structures come into force in October 2011. However, the SRA board was emphatic that ‘those in control of law firms must be under ...
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Data page August 2010
The data page is the financial rates and data compiled for the Law Society Gazette by MoneyFacts group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. Downloads Download the ...
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Immigration
Administrative law – Civil procedure – Education – Admissions R (on the application of A&S Training College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: QBD (Admin) (Judge Birtles): 27 August 2010 ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, 5 September 1990 Postbox – the politics of pro bonoHow often is quite exceptional service rendered to a client in return for no more ...
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Hair on air
Watch out those readers who find the Direct Line telephone really annoying. A new inanimate object with a boisterous personality is about to hit our screens, and its creators have told Obiter they are planning to make it just as ubiquitous as the famous red phone. As lawgazette.co.uk reported last ...
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The Digital Economy Act 2010 and online copyright infringement
The Digital Economy Act 2010 – legislation to fit Britain for the digital age, or the oppressive tool of capitalist lickspittles? You be the judge. Digital Britain was an impressive white paper published in June 2009 containing a raft ...
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Crowned advocate
With the traditional image of a solicitor being a little – dare we suggest – staid, it is heartening to know that a touch of glamour will be heading our way in a few years. Jessica Linley, a 21-year-old law student at Nottingham University and the current Miss Nottingham, has ...
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Altar-native career
Richard Taylor, partner at DLA Piper in Sheffield and the Gazette’s IP guru, has something of a passion for churches. So much so that he is currently on the box presenting a new BBC television series, Churches: How to Read Them, based on his own book of the same name. ...
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Birth pangs
It seems that personal injury solicitors anxiously awaiting the outcome of Lord Young of Graffham’s ’elf and safety review, which is intended to check the growth of the compensation culture, may have to wait another week. If rumours that have reached Obiter’s ears are to be believed, those in the ...
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What to do if your firm has yet to obtain PII
The uppermost issue for many law firms at present is whether they will manage to get professional indemnity insurance (PII) for the coming year, and how much it will cost. We are often asked how many firms we expect will fail to get PII on the ...
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How Leeds law firms are battling the downturn
Times have been challenging for almost everyone in the Leeds legal market: from Fox Hayes, which went into administration last year, to members of the original ‘big six’ Leeds firms such as Hammonds, which made over 70 redundancies and had to close its conveyancing business, Hammonds Direct; to Lupton Fawcett ...
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The Law Commission wants to move from criminal to civil penalties
What is the criminal law for? That deceptively simple question was addressed recently in a masterly paper by Professor Jeremy Horder, issued just a few days before he completed his term as the commissioner responsible for advising ministers on reform of the criminal law. As a ...
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LSC reverses contract decision following judge's warning
The Legal Services Commission has averted one legal challenge to its tender process by awarding a social welfare contract to a Birmingham firm which sought a judicial review of the LSC’s initial decision not to make an award.
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Welfare law work and exclusion
I was pleased to read the comments of Mr Justice Collins, in connection with the ‘irrational’ approach of the Legal Services Commission regarding the social welfare law tender process. Unhappily, this is consistent with the experiences of my own firm.
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Colombia and human rights
Further to the article ‘UK lawyer delegation suffers Colombia rights rebuff’, I would like to inform you that the government and embassy of Colombia provided the delegation with assistance in arranging and confirming governmental meetings during their visit to my country in August.
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The record of the Legal Complaints Service
I read with interest your interview with LeO chief ombudsman Adam Sampson . As chair of the board of the Legal Complaints Service, I have worked closely with Legal Complaints Service chief executive Deborah Evans and her team to ensure that LeO gets off to the ...