Last 3 months headlines – Page 1691
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Green recovery will push environmental law mainstream
Robert Lee is Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School and a member of the academic panel at Landmark Chambers’ Centre for Environmental LawLast month’s Budget introduced a range of measures to encourage investment ...
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PPPs will not provide international opportunities for the legal profession
George Rosenberg is a consultant at construction firm Corbett & Co International in TeddingtonI was interested to read the comment by the minister for trade and investment, Lord Davies of Abersoch (see [2009] Gazette, ...
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Fraud claims reach record level, says ABI
Fraudulent insurance claims reached record levels in 2008, with dishonest claims totalling £14m exposed each week, the Association of British Insurers has revealed. ABI figures for 2008 released today (16 April) record 107,200 fraudulent insurance claims – more than 2,000 claims a week. The figures represent ...
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Green shoots
I hate the phrase ‘green shoots’, mainly because it was being used months back by a few economic commentators who only really wanted to be the first to say it. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the dole queue, while the great British pound has fallen towards ...
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Hearsay, bad character and identification evidence
The very wide use of the provisions of section 114(1)(d) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to allow the admission, as evidence of its truth, of hearsay evidence is further confirmed by the decision in R v RL [2008] EWCA Crime 973.
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Civil procedure
Police – Admissibility – Compilations – Disclosure – Football banning orders Newman v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: DC (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Teare): 25 March 2009 ...
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Immigration
Criminal liability – Refugees – Terrorism – Convention relating to the Status of Refugees MH (Syria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: DS (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice ...
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Why legal disciplinary practices are off to a slow start
On the face of it, Nick Hanning, a legal executive from Dorset; Clint Evans, chief executive at City firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert; and John Durcan, practice director at a large legal aid firm in Yorkshire, have little in common apart from their membership of the extended legal family.
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Fool's gold
The solicitors’ profession, punch-drunk and cynical, has learned to expect surprises from a government that does not always give the impression of liking lawyers very much.
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Wisdom of Solomons
Here’s a challenge for the chaps in spotty bow ties: how can we ‘sex up’ board meetings of the Solicitors Regulation Authority? The question actually came up at a board meeting last month – in the context, we hasten to add, of encouraging more members of the public to come ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, 14 April 1999 One of the country’s largest chains of estate agents announced this week that it planned to slash the ...
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Denby takes the biscuits
We were right when we bet that Gazette readers would find a longer-running lawsuit than the 13-year wrangle between Marks & Spencer and HMRC over VAT on biscuits (see [2009] Gazette, 26 February, 35). But we thought that the winner would be a matter of a year or two, or ...
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Smashing time
Sussex firm Griffith Smith Farrington Webb takes pride in offering a full range of legal services. But it draws the line at drive-in personal injury clients. So staff were relieved that nobody was hurt when an elderly lady lost control of her Toyota Yaris and arrived in the Hassocks ...
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Training contracts and the SRA's powers
Judging by the phone calls received by the SRA since the start of the recession, there is anxiety among trainees about their contracts and some employers are unsure about their responsibilities. Let me try to shed some light on the matter and explain the extent of our role.
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Should the AG have power of veto over arrests for war crimes?
After spending nearly 35 years as a public prosecutor, it can’t be very easy to switch from advising on what the law is to thinking about what it ought to be.
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Marking your card
The Home Office this week announced preferred suppliers of the first two big IT systems in its programme to create a national identity card. The contracts, which include a 10-year deal to create the national biometric information system, mark the first step towards making the card an everyday reality by ...
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Public recognition
The true source of Ken Gulati’s grief about public sector pay (see [2009] Gazette, Letters, 26 March, 11) is readily apparent from his own letter.
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Unfair punishment
Following an SRA spot check, the partners of my firm were advised of two minor infractions. More than six months later, and following a delay in the reissue of practising certificates, we were advised over the phone that we were to be reprimanded.
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Press intrusion
I read with horror your article and editorial in relation to the scheme to allow journalists access to family court proceedings.
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Criticism of CPS associate prosecutors is misplaced
Your correspondent Judith Mills (see [2009] Gazette, Letters, 26 March, 11) unfairly and inaccurately attacked the standard of Crown Prosecution Service associate prosecutors. I strongly refute her comments.