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Enforcement: Charging and third-party debt orders
Section 24(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 (‘the 1980 act’) provides that an action cannot be brought on any judgment after the expiration of six years from the date on which the judgment became enforceable, unless an extension is granted on application by the judgment creditor.
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Human rights lawyers expose violence against their Colombian counterparts
Sara Chandler is director of pro bono services at the College of Law, and is the Law Society Council member for the voluntary sector, and a member of the Law Society’s International Human Rights ...
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Law Society complains over judge’s remarks on solicitor-advocates
The Law Society has made an official complaint over what it says were ‘inappropriate comments’ by a Crown court judge about the alleged incompetence of three solicitor-advocates. Chancery Lane has written to Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, the presiding judge of the south-eastern circuit, about remarks made by ...
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50% tax rise will raise £150M from City partners alone
Equity partners at the UK’s 10 biggest law firms will each pay on average £100,000 extra a year to help bail the government out of deficit, Gazette research suggests. Chancellor Alistair Darling’s new 50% income tax bracket, which comes in to force in April 2010, will raise £150m from City ...
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Solicitors and estate agents condemn missed opportunity from budget
Last week’s Budget was a missed opportunity to rescue the housing market and will have no impact on property buying and selling trends, according to the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA). The association said that the chancellor had ignored proposals to abolish or reform ...
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MoJ delays implementation of new accident claims processing regime
The Ministry of Justice has conceded defeat over its timetable for introducing a new claims process for road traffic cases, as the Gazette predicted last week (see [2009] Gazette, 23 April, 3). A letter sent to stakeholders this week says it now hopes to have the ...
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Which? enters online wills market
Which? Legal Service is entering the wills market in a tie-up with law firm Blake Lapthorn. The service uses an online questionnaire which takes customers through 1,500 questions tailored to individual needs. Once the questionnaire is completed, a solicitor at ...
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Society survey will reveal salary inequalities
An in-depth investigation into solicitors’ salaries will reveal ‘significant inequalities’ between white members of the profession and those from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups. The warning came from Law Society president Paul Marsh (pictured) at the Minority Lawyers’ Conference at Chancery Lane on Saturday. ...
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SRA’s submission to Hunt review calls for clarity
The division between regulatory and representative functions of the Law Society is ‘inconsistent with the requirements of the Legal Services Act’ and ‘baffling to many consumers and solicitors’, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has told Lord Hunt’s regulation review. In its submission to the Law Society-commissioned ...
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Jackson commends German costs recovery model
Lord Justice Jackson (pictured) may consider a costs recovery system based upon the German model when he releases the preliminary findings of his 1,000 -page review into civil litigation costs early next month.
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New president sets out 10-step plan
The new president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has hit out at insurance solicitors who, he says, fight the conditional fees ‘costs war’ from the ‘comfort zone of risk-free retainers’.
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Restraint orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act
It is estimated that organised crime costs the UK some £40bn a year. The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 trailblazed some unprecedented powers of asset restraint and confiscation in an attempt to remove the profit and, ultimately, motivation for committing economic crime.
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Plain speaking
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Keep it in the family
A father and son team of solicitor advocates is poised to take on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) this week. John (the father) and William (the son) Mackenzie represent Lance Bombardier Kerry Fletcher, who was awarded over £170,000 damages by Leeds Employment Tribunal last autumn for sex and sexual-orientation discrimination ...
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RCJ goes green to mark new chapter
As you can see from the picture, it is that time of year again. No, not Halloween, but the arrival of this year’s edition of The Civil Court Practice, known to all as the Green Book. To mark the tenth anniversary of the Woolf reforms, LexisNexis, the publishers of the ...
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Memory lane
The President reads the Barristers and Solicitors (qualification of women) Bill and the 1999 Women Lawyer Forum ‘Mainstreaming: dismantling the barriers’ The Law Society's Gazette, April 1919 ...
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On yer bike
Hannah Cash, a commercial law solicitor at Rooks Rider in London, has completed a 760km bike ride across the Andes from Argentina to Chile, raising £3,000 for MENCAP. The seven-day route climbed to 1,320 metres through the Puyehue Pass, finishing at the Pacific Ocean. The money raised by the ...
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Manifold delights of Italian wine
Alfresco eating in the garden, balmy nights watching the football season play out its final act, firing up the barbecue and the excitement of four months of parties, festivals and cricket – can it really be happening? Has summer finally arrived? It may be a little ...
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PII working group
I would like to express my disappointment that the recent article headed ‘PII premiums to rise, crisis group warns’ used the word ‘crisis’ to describe the situation and the purpose of the group...