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Fancy a little law qualification forum shopping?
I am at the American Bar Association (ABA) annual meeting in Chicago. Numbers attending are seriously down, and the ABA faces the same kind of financial squeeze as bars all over the world.
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IP and copyright – the fight against online piracy
The tide may have turned against online piracy in the UK. In its Digital Britain final report, published on 16 June, the government outlined proposals to legislate to achieve a reduction of 70-80% in the incidence of unlawful peer-to-peer file-sharing.
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Consumer law
Agency – Commission – Estate agents – Fariness – Landlords Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd: Ch D (Mann J): 10 July 2009 The claimant (OFT) sought declaratory ...
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Data page for July 2009
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.DownloadsDownload the data page for July 2009 below:Data page 20 July 2009 (192kb)
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BVT consultation
I write with reference to the letter in support of best value tendering (see [2009] Gazette, 23 July, 11). I am pleased to see that others recognise the potential benefits of best value tendering (BVT). I would, however, reassure Gazette readers that in developing our proposals we have spoken with ...
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National interest
We read with interest the Benchmarks item on forced marriage protection orders (see [2009] Gazette, 23 July, 19).
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Debt blocks access
The final report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions should have been seen as the propaganda it is.
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Free dispute mechanism does the bar no credit
I wonder how many solicitors undertaking occasional litigation are aware of the Bar Council’s terms of work, and in particular the mechanism that comes into play if the solicitor disputes a barrister’s fee note.
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Blakemores does battle
Being a lawyer is not all about sitting at a desk, as this fearsome bunch from Blakemores in Birmingham and Leamington Spa will attest. Sometimes it is also about walking through minefields, fighting with guns, spending the night in a homemade shelter, and – from the look of it – ...
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Smart money
They say cleanliness is next to godliness. So according to the results of a survey carried out by national dry cleaners, Johnsons Cleaners, lawyers must be pretty close to the Almighty. They are apparently the second most unsullied professionals, only beaten by the uber-spruced financial services workers. An impressively hygienic ...
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Front runners
It wasn’t just City pavements which took a pounding as a result of this month’s Standard Chartered City Race; this column also received its own beating from Baker & McKenzie associate Sally Onn, over last week’s remark that no lawyers made it into the top ten in the Standard Chartered ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, July 1939 Provincial Meeting, 1939Members attending the [Provincial Meeting in Worthing] will have admission during ...
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Cashflow: is your IT supplier doing the business for you?
I have a thing about financial reports and consistency. The problem for IT suppliers is that everybody they supply wants something different. I can sympathise with that.
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The politics of class struggle
There’s real irony in Alan Milburn’s report on Fair Access to the Professions. It reintroduces to the diversity debate a subject that is supposed to have been consigned to the dustbin of history (as Trotsky would certainly not have put it) by ‘third-way’ proselytisers like Milburn himself – class.
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Controversy continues over miners' claims
The work that solicitors have done under the mineworkers’ compensation scheme has attracted the attention of press, parliament and the public ever since details of wrongdoing began to emerge earlier this decade. But the debate has focused on two controversies: the millions of pounds that solicitors have earned, and the ...
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Law lords sit for the last time before moving to the Supreme Court
So farewell, then, law lords. The appellate committee of the House of Lords is sitting today for the last time in 133 years, hearing a short immigration appeal and then delivering seven judgments. On 1 October, the law lords will be transformed into the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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Claims management regulator places blame firmly on solicitors
Law firms may be feeling the pain of the recession, but it seems business is booming for claims managers. As we report this week, a study by the claims management regulator, which sits in the Ministry of Justice, shows that the number of players moving into this market is increasing ...
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ITV and Lovells form pro bono partnership
ITV Legal has launched a new pro bono initiative with City firm Lovells as part of an innovative partnership programme with its panel law firms. The ITV Legal pro bono bank gives in-house lawyers at ITV the opportunity to take part in Lovells’ pro bono work. ...
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Bar Council accuses CPS of ‘Alice in Wonderland accounting’
The Bar Council accused the Crown Prosecution Service of ‘Alice in Wonderland accounting’ this week over the CPS’s claim to have saved millions using its own lawyers rather than external advocates. In its 2007/08 annual report, the CPS said it had saved £17.1m ...