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ADR encouraged in planning process
Replacing planning appeals with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) could help save businesses and councils £300m a year, the government claimed this week. The proposals, published by the Communities and Local Government department, call for a ‘more proportionate’ planning system, removing nearly 40% of minor non-residential developments ...
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Technology mergers, charity deals and educational investments
Pop for poppies: South-west firm Wilsons advised charity Help for Heroes, which cares for British soldiers post-conflict, on an agreement with music producer Simon Cowell’s (inset) production company for a share of profits received from the sale of music single Hero. Finalists from ...
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In-house lawyers, the Gazette needs you
Take part in our survey of what in-house lawyers are thinking, and doing, about outsourcing work offshore. To follow this week's feature on outsourcing and offshoring legal work (see Features section), the Gazette needs your input to a survey on what businesses are doing in terms ...
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Data page for November 2008
The data page is financial rates and data compiled for the Law Gazette by Moneyfacts Group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. Downloads Download the Data ...
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Criminal law: Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons)
On 6 April this year, new legislation to control curved bladed swords came into force. Since that time there has been a great deal of confusion over the intended interpretation of the statute.
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Employment law
Equal pay – Justification – Remuneration – Sex discrimination – Shift workers Blackburn and anor v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Scott Baker, Maurice Kay, Wilson): 6 November 2008 ...
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Family law
Contact orders – Fairness – Orders restricting further applications – Residence orders Re G (a child): CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Ward, Rimer): 6 November 2008 The appellant father (F) ...
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Personal injury
Negligence – Health and safety at work – Employers’ liability – Application of exception to ‘but for’ test of causation Grace Sanderson (administratrix of the estate of Mr Sanderson, deceased) v Donna Marie Hull: CA (Civ Div) (Lords ...
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Criminal law
Computers – Criminal Cases Review Commission – Indecent photographs of children – Knowledge – Detected computer images R v Christopher Rowe: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Swift, Mr Justice Cranston): 3 ...
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Criminal evidence
Competence – Learning difficulties – Sexual activity with children - Witness R v M: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Foskett, Mr Justice Jacob): 4 November 2008 The ...
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Tougher credit rules and anxious clients
‘Cash is king’, the practice management mantra for firms in the downturn, is sadly more honoured in the breach than in the observance. The collapse last month of Key Business Finance (KBF), the specialist solicitors’ lending arm of the failed Icelandic bank Landsbanki, is a case in point.
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A simple solution to the problem of non-compliance
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) reports that the level of compliance in relation to referral arrangements remains low. Antony Townsend makes plain his disappointment (see [2008] Gazette, 6 November, 1). It appears that the SRA does not understand why this is happening. We believe we do, and that the reason, ...
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Day of reckoning
I congratulate Martyn Day on the success he is having in his use of conditional fee agreements (CFAs) (see [2008] Gazette, 6 November, 14), but it is important to add that the Legal Services Commission (LSC) still funds major group claims.
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Short-sighted?
In reference to your negative editorial on the outcome of the postal ballot on Charter amendments (see [2008] Gazette, 30 October, 8), the powers that be at Chancery Lane should not assume that the majority who voted against the proposals were merely motivated by protectionist tendencies in difficult times.
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Richard Alderman to shake up the Serious Fraud Office
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is trying to shed its reputation as unwieldy, expensive and blundering. In doing so, it is about to undertake the difficult task of cutting the amount it spends on barristers and train staff to do the advocacy work instead. This ...
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It couldn't happen here
There’s been much talk over the past couple of weeks about why the UK has yet to produce a political figure comparable to Barack Obama (pictured). Now Hackney MP Diane Abbott has come up with a novel theory. Chairing a House of Commons meeting on the Ouseley review of regulatory ...
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Canny Scotland
Obiter confesses to enjoying a glass or three of the hard stuff at this time of year, so he’s not going to get sanctimonious over revelations that the Attorney General’s office has spent a whopping £102.35 of taxpayers’ money on alcoholic drinks so ...
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Last orders for Council
You know what it’s like when you’ve had the decorators in. The Law Society is understandably a little proud of its newly refurbished high-tech Council Chamber, where each seat has ‘access to power and data’ and will shortly have electronic voting. A little fastidious, too. Attendees ...
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Paul Dacre’s belligerent attack on Mr Justice Eady
‘Dull doesn’t sell newspapers. Boring doesn’t pay the mortgage.’ Thus did Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre begin his speech to the Society of Editors. He proceeded to give a masterclass in exactly what he meant. No nuance clouded his demonisation of the Human Rights Act or of Mr Justice Eady. ...