Last 3 months headlines – Page 1608
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Money laundering: a review in Europe at last
The European Commission has finally announced its plans for a full review of the impact of the anti-money laundering legislation on the legal profession.
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In marketing once is never enough, as the Co-op model shows
News that the Co-operative has launched a high-profile campaign in its stores to promote its legal services is hardly surprising – given that they have a market of 17 million weekly shoppers. What caught my attention and got me thinking was the fact that the campaign will last nine weeks.
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Diary of a redundancy (part one)
‘You’re signed off for four weeks,’ the doctor said. He nodded down at the sick note, one professional to another. ‘May I use the words "anxiety" and "depression"?’
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Barnardo’s report claims children wrongly taken into custody
Around 170 children between the ages of 12 and 14 may have been wrongly put behind bars in 2007-08, a report published by children’s charity Barnardo’s claimed today. Government policy states that children aged 14 and younger should only be put into custody if they have ...
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Judicial Office reveals £4.45m budget
The Judicial Office budget for 2009/10 will be £4.45m, the office has revealed in its first ever business plan. The Judicial Office was set up in 2006 to provide administrative support to the Lord Chief Justice and senior judiciary. It also provides training to the 42,000 ...
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Bahrain to open alternative dispute resolution centre
Bahrain is to open an alternative dispute resolution centre to conduct international arbitrations, following an agreement formalised at the Bahrain embassy in London today. Bahrain’s Ministry of Justice signed an operating agreement with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) to establish the Bahrain chamber for dispute ...
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Going paperless is easier than you think, and good for your firm
Lawyers can get very hung up on the need to keep paper copies of everything. It’s just not necessary!
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Speaking out against injustice
With the myriad of domestic challenges facing the profession at the moment – from economic downturn to the potential impact of the legal aid reforms and the regulatory challenges flowing from the Legal Services Act, it is good to see that the Law Society has not closed its eyes to ...
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Belgium in the summertime is the perfect holiday spot (for lawyers, too)
You may think that Belgium is no more than a short and tedious motorway journey to somewhere more interesting. You are wrong.
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Pre-contract discussions: useful, but won’t work in court
Funny things, contracts. They start their lives in a honeymoon of smiles and happy expectation, as the parties individually believe their interests have been buttoned down firmly and fortified with ‘hoops of steel’. But time passes, events happen, and the document is eventually pulled out of a dusty cupboard to ...
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Employment
Compensation – Final salary schemes – Unfair dismissal Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd v S Roberts: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Keene, Dyson, Elias): 21 July 2009 The appellant employer ...
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Periodical payments – Proportionality – Variation Hvorostovsky v Hvorostovsky: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Etherton, Mr Justice Bodey): 23 July 2009 The appellant former wife ...
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What brokers and insurers forecast for the PII renewal deadline
This is the time of year when professional indemnity insurers and brokers start warning solicitors that the market is going to harden and they had better smarten up their act. Get your proposals in nice and early if you want the best deals, has been the message; a message that ...
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Rocky road
It looks like Ewan and Charley had better watch their backs. When it comes to riding around random parts of the globe on a funky mode of transport, there’s a new gig in town. John Eley, an in-house solicitor at Lonza Biologics in Slough (pictured sans sunglasses), and his mate ...
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Celebrity fever
As Obiter reported last week, lawyers spend more on frocks and smocks than almost any other professionals. So all those readers with wardrobes stuffed full of gladrags should get themselves along to the glitzy charity ball being organised by trainee solicitor Kimberley Shields at Laytons in Guildford this month, in ...
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Red-faced letter day
Obiter reported a few months back on the dangers of fingers slipping on keyboards, with our chief typo correspondent David Wershof of Wiseman Lee informing us of an unfortunate client who confused ‘possible’ with pissible’ on his BlackBerry, with tragic consequences. Now the ...
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Putting your foot down
It may not sound quite as adventurous as Mongolia, but Obiter has also heard from another solicitor making a gruelling journey for charity. Gerard Rogers, senior solicitor at Chesterfield Borough Council, has just cycled 950 miles from John O’Groats to Lands End, in 10 days. Rogers tells us that the ...
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A question of authority
I have just read your article on claims management companies (see [2009] Gazette, 30 July 3). I note that Kevin Rousell appears to believe that the majority of CMCs are trying to ‘comply’ with the referral code.
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Clarity on claims
A recent editorial refers to the claims management regulator placing blame for malpractice firmly on solicitors (see [2009] Gazette, 30 July, 10).