Last 3 months headlines – Page 1621
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Human rights
Closed material – Disclosure – Non-derogating control orders – Right to fair trial – Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Secretary of State for the Home Department (appellant) v (1) AF (2) AM (3) AN (respondents): AE (appellant) v Secretary ...
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Cash-strapped charities reassess their spending on professional services
Charities are increasingly feeling the impact of the recession, with more than half reporting a drop in income at the same time as demand for their services increases. This is forcing them to make painful decisions about drawing on reserves, dropping projects, selling property and shedding staff.
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How green was my council chamber
The Law Society council is off on its travels, but members don’t need to worry about anti-malarials yet. As ardent Obiter readers will remember, back in February the council decided that it should become more geographically adventurous in its choice of meeting venues. This month, the topic came up for ...
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What's cooking?
We’re not sure what Jeanette Miller, founding president of the Association of Motoring Offence Lawyers, was discussing with TV chef Marco Pierre White, but the pair seemed to be enjoying themselves at a charity event at the Lancashire County Cricket Club. Miller admitted to finding the youngest ever Michelin 3-star ...
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Too much too late
Obiter is no expert on the public finances, but here’s a helpful suggestion for the next time the Treasury comes looking for economies at the Ministry of Justice. It’s called: pay your bills on time. Answering a question from Conservative MP Philip Hammond, ...
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Telling it like it isn’t
Cynics would say that ‘politics’ and ‘u-turn’ have been mutual friends for centuries. Obiter prefers to recall the (attributed) words of John Maynard Keynes: ‘When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?’ Whatever. But with a general ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society's position on price control, a note on China's politics and changing relations between solicitors. The Law Society’s Gazette, 30 June 1999 ...
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Data page for June 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 ...
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HIP search myth
While applauding the caution that Mark Williams advocates regarding ‘cut-price HIPs’ (see [2009] Gazette, 18 June, 13), it is important that the old but popular myth about personal search is reviewed.
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BVT – we’re listening
I would like to reassure Rodney Warren (see [2009] Gazette, 11 June, 11) that we are actively engaging with representative bodies to ensure providers are prepared for change, should best value tendering (BVT) progress.
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Bad scheme based on poor evidence
In 1984 the Law Society Children Panel was set up to provide quality assurance of children’s representation in care proceedings. The tandem approach has developed into a world-recognised model of good practice. Solicitors became expert negotiators and advocates appearing at all levels of court, and mutual respect grew between solicitors ...
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Why are common law lawyers the hardest hit?
We read every week in the legal press about solicitors suffering in the current crisis: lay-offs, short-time and pay-cuts. There have been stories about trainees receiving the bad news by voicemail, and a US lawyer laying off his own wife.
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New anti-terrorism legislation is ill-considered and unnecessary
Nine-nil. The House of Lords does not get more decisive than that: control orders are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. Alan Johnson, the new boy at the Home Office, duly declared their Lordships’ judgment ‘disappointing’. But it is more the government that merits disappointment than the judges. ...
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We shouldn’t celebrate 60 years of legal aid with a wake
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. So, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland – a public servant – is set to trouser £10m if he sorts out the mess bequeathed by ‘Fred the Shred’. Meanwhile, Alistair Darling delivers a feeble speech to City high-rollers at the ...
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Straw vows corruption bill will become law
Justice secretary Jack Straw has told parliament that he is determined to ensure that the draft bribery bill becomes legislation before a general election. He was responding last week to a joint committee’s concerns about the parliamentary time available for the new measure, which would create two new offences.
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In-house counsel lobby for trade secrets protection
A coalition of major international corporations is to lobby the European Parliament and commission in an attempt to secure better protection for trade secrets, the Gazette has learned. In-house counsel from the 10-strong coalition of companies assert that trade secrets do not receive adequate protection in ...
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Barclays sale, TomTom share offering and company takeover
Barclays sale: Magic circle firm Clifford Chance, alongside US firm Sullivan & Cromwell, advised Barclays (pictured) on the $13.5bn (£8.2bn) sale of its global investment arm. The buyer, US investment manager BlackRock, was advised by magic circle firm Linklaters and US firm Skadden.
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Tributes paid to solicitor-judge Henry Hodge
The lord chief justice has led tributes to Sir Henry Hodge, one of the first solicitors to become a High Court judge, who died last week aged 65. Lord Judge said that Hodge had been ‘an outstanding president of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, a ...
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Tribunals in Wales face major shake-up
Tribunals in Wales face substantial reform after their supervisory body found them lacking in independence, openness, impartiality and efficiency.
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Practitioners divided over implications of trial without jury
Criminal practitioners are divided over the implications of the Court of Appeal’s decision to allow a judge alone to hear the retrial of a robbery case. Last week the lord chief justice ruled that the risk of jury tampering was sufficient to allow the trial of ...