Last 3 months headlines – Page 1682

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    Lawyers warned of individual fines

    2008-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Solicitors responsible for their firms’ anti-money laundering systems will now risk being personally fined if they do not have adequate procedures in place, experts have warned. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) last week levied its first fine on a business money laundering reporting officer (MLRO). If ...

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    Banking investments, loans and corporate takeovers

    2008-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Energy boost: City firm Norton Rose advised the Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission on signing a uranium exploration agreement with French nuclear power company Areva, and is advising on negotiations over a mining agreement. Magic circle firm Linklaters advised Areva, while Jordan firm Aljazy ...

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    Freedom of information: documents and diplomats

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Lawyers who act as external legal advisers to large public authorities will inevitably hold a lot of documents about the subject of their instructions. Consequently, when their clients receive Freedom of Information Act requests, some of these documents may be caught by the act as being information ‘held by another ...

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    Health

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Negligence – Breach of duty of care – Causation – Foreseeability – Occupational stress Dickins v O2 Plc: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Sedley, Wall, Lady Justice Smith): 16 October 2008 ...

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    Immigration

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Disability living allowance – Immigration policy – Income support – Maintenance – Reliance on third-party support (1) AM (Ethiopia) (2) SA (Somalia) (3) MB (Pakistan) (4) MI (Somalia) & anr v Entry Clearance Officer: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice ...

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    Penology

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Human rights – Disciplinary offences – Impartiality – Independence – Prisoners R (on the application of John Haase) (claimant) v Independent Adjudicator (defendant) and Secretary of State for Justice (interested party): R (on the application of John Haase) ...

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    Home information packs: happy birthday?

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    ‘If ever a government needs a salutary lesson in what happens when you ignore what the stakeholders say, I introduce to you the home information pack,’ reflects Richard Barnett, chairman of the Law Society’s conveyancing and land law committee. There was never going to be much ...

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    How to start 'em young

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    We like to think that the Gazette has a broad appeal, so our thanks to James Nathan, a director of legal recruiters West Associates, for this heart-warming picture of his two-year-old son Ben, which we are assured was not staged. Nathan Jr was so taken with our 25 September issue ...

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    In which we served

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    From where Obiter was sitting, the loudest applause at last week’s Law Society Excellence Awards went not to any of the winners, but to 84-year-old Donald Winton (pictured), highly commended as legal executive of the year. His 70-year career included four wartime years in the RAF.

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    On a big bender

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Driving at 140 miles per hour in a petrol-guzzling dinosaur of a car is personal injury solicitor Andrew Harrison’s idea of fun. It’s not without its risks, however – he once hurt his thumb spinning off at a bend, poor love. Harrison, an assistant ...

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    Loose connection

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    A reader called the other day to propose an idea for a feature in the Gazette. Usually our features editor is a tough nut, but on this occasion he was impressed enough to invite the caller to email the piece in. Except it turned out that the reader, a practising ...

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    An end and a beginning

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Richard Susskind envisages a future in which bespoke legal services will be the exception. For many lawyers, says Richard Susskind, it looks as if the party may soon be over. Clients are demanding more for less. ‘The legal market looks set to be a buyer’s ...

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    Welcome in the valleys

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Firms will profit form the emergence of Wales as a distinct legal jurisdiction.

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    Discharge call

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    I am writing with regard to the article ‘Conveyancing warning’ (see [2008] Gazette, 16 October, 2). Perhaps the Law Society, particularly in view of the current financial climate, should consider approaching the main financial institutions to change what has become common conveyancing practice for undertakings.

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    Arresting issue

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to read the letter you received from District Judge Peter Glover concerning the abolition of powers of arrest in relation to non-molestation orders (see [2008] Gazette, 25 September, 7). I fully agree with the observations made by him that an issue of ...

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    Exhibiting unease

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    The Legal Services Commission (LSC) Crown Court litigator fee scheme was introduced to cut costs by 10% and simplify the billing process. At training sessions, LSC staff were confident there would be few disputes and described the appeal procedure as unlikely to be used.

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    Members deliver their verdicts

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    This was an apposite time to engage more directly with the many different constituencies in the legal services market. It has been a fortnight of mixed fortunes for Chancery Lane. On the upside, the Law Society Excellence Awards were an unqualified success, attracting hundreds to ...

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    The case for sense and sensitivity

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    An increasing diverse legal profession demands a regulatory approach that reflects that diversity. There ought not to be controversy over the Law Society’s decision to set up an independent profession-wide review of whether the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) ‘one size fits all’ approach is appropriate to ...

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    Data page

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    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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    Law Society's excellence awards

    2008-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Saimo Chahal, head of the civil liberties and social welfare team at London firm Bindmans, was last week named solicitor of the year at the Law Society’s second annual Excellence Awards. Chahal (pictured) was cited for her work on behalf of vulnerable and disadvantaged clients in ...