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Scholarship to study law in France, Spain or Canada
Trainee and newly qualified solicitors have been given the chance to apply for a grant to study a postgraduate legal course in France, Spain or Canada. The Hubbard scholarship of up to £15,000 is available to trainees or newly qualified solicitors within three years of admission. ...
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What about firms that can’t afford to promote social mobility?
Accustomed as I am to receiving gloomy news about legal aid and vulnerable people being denied access to justice, a press release heralding a rare piece of good news brightened my inbox this week.
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Firms see boom in high-value litigation
A quarter of litigation disputes involve claims of more than £3m, and legal costs exceed £500,000 in 10% of cases, a survey of the heads of litigation at the UK’s top 200 law firms has revealed. The research, commissioned by Harbour Litigation Funding, showed that commercial ...
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Handling launch of legal directories
Today sees the publication of the 2010 Legal 500. Reputations and egos will be bolstered or dented and questions will be raised: ‘Why is such-and-such still ranked above us, when we all know that we are better?’
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The struggle over the European Law Institute
Prepare yourself for a battle of similarly sounding initials. This is a story of how ELIA has been struggling with EUI, and how they have then decided to make common cause to be able to carve out the spoils of the battle between themselves, and so decide who else should ...
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Barristers offer ‘lifeline’ to criminal solicitors
Barristers’ chambers could provide a ‘lifeline’ to small criminal law firms, Bar Council chairman Nick Green QC has told the Gazette. ...
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LSC extends family contracts
The Legal Services Commission has agreed to extend the family legal aid contracts for a month, as the Law Society won an application for an expedited hearing of its judicial review at a hearing last week. At a directions hearing at the High Court on Friday, ...
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LSC extends family contracts
The Legal Services Commission has agreed to extend the family legal aid contracts for a month, as the Law Society won an application for an expedited hearing of its judicial review last week. At a directions hearing at the High Court on Friday, the court granted ...
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The SRA must amend the Code of Conduct or law firms will close
This autumn the media will be replete with stories about the number of small firms of solicitors who have ceased to practise. A recurrent theme will be the lack of competition between those firms who remain, and an absence of choice for the consumer. There are three reasons for my ...
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SRA steps up ARP enforcement action
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has visited 88 firms in the assigned risks pool (ARP) since July, as part of its tougher enforcement strategy to clamp down on ‘financially unstable’ firms in the pool. The regulator announced a new enforcement regime in July designed to address the ...
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Rules on ABS discussions unlikely to be relaxed
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is unlikely to relax its rules on allowing firms to enter into deals with other businesses in advance of the licensing of alternative business structures, a paper prepared by the regulator has indicated. The paper, which will be discussed by the SRA ...
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Should corporations be bound by human rights treaties?
Human rights treaties bind states, not big business. And yet some multinational corporations are virtually states in themselves.
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No common garden
Green-fingered solicitors at Shropshire firm Lanyon Bowdler are celebrating this month after winning the Mike Hough memorial trophy for the best outdoor garden, as well as a gold medal from the Shropshire Horticultural Society. Clients and staff all got stuck in to create the garden, from a plan produced by ...
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Insolvency
Football – CVAs – Creditors’ meetings – Unfair prejudice Portsmouth City Football Club Ltd (in administration) sub nom Revenue & Customs v (1) Portsmouth City Football Club Ltd (in administration) (2) Andrew Andronikou (3) Peter Kubik (4) Michael Kiely ...
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You be the judge
Obiter has always suspected that it must be good fun to be a judge, so an educational game currently featured on the Ministry of Justice website, which invites users to ‘be a judge for a day’, was too much to resist.
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High flyers
Some 70 years after Winston Churchill paid tribute to ‘the few’, an intellectual property lawyer was among those who took to the skies to commemorate the Battle of Britain this month. Alongside Bruce Dickinson (pictured, second right), frontman of legendary heavy metal outfit Iron Maiden, Ilya Kazi (right), partner at ...
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Employment
Discrimination – Contract terms – Equal pay – Women S Brownbill & Ors v St Helens & Knowsley Hospital NHS Trust: EAT (Mrs Justice Cox): 6 August 2010 The appellant ...
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Earning a crust
In these difficult times, it is good to know that the entrepreneurial spirit is still alive and well, and indeed that every apparent difficulty is, in fact, an opportunity. As this column has documented, criminal defence solicitors have bemoaned the Court Service’s current policy of banning them from bringing dictation ...
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Succession
Estates – Mutual wills – Validity Angela Marilyn Charles (2) Derek Goddard (3) Anne Mabel Thompson v Jill Deborah Fraser: ChD (Jonathan Gaunt QC): 11 August 2010 The claimants (C) ...