Last 3 months headlines – Page 1700
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Release partners for pro bono bench placements, says LCJ
Major law firms should allow junior partners to seek part-time judicial appointments as part of their pro bono activities, the lord chief justice said last week. ‘We must find a way of tapping into the talents of the brightest and best solicitors,’ Lord Judge told ...
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MoJ chiefs face MPs over Crown Court failings
Senior officials at the Ministry of Justice this week denied MPs’ charges of ‘complacency’ and running a ‘dysfunctional organisation’ following an auditors’ report criticising the administration of Crown Courts. At a hearing of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on Monday, chairman Edward Leigh ...
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Court actions soar over bad debts
Top corporate firms are increasingly resorting to court action to secure unpaid legal fees, the Gazette has learned. In the past six months, the number of cases filed in the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court between top-50 firms and clients has more than doubled, ...
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Mission to open the legal services market in Ukraine
City law firms and British government officials will travel to Ukraine next month to try to boost the presence of English firms in Europe’s largest country. The mission, scheduled for the end of April, will include delegates from 10 City firms and officials from UK ...
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Balance sheets, waste technology and Formula 1
On the button: City firm Taylor Wessing advised Ross Brawn, former boss of the Honda GP Formula 1 motorsport team, on buying the Honda team to create Brawn GP F1. The new team has taken on Honda’s drivers from last year, Britain’s Jenson ...
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NSPCC – legal aid cuts ‘risk miscarriages of justice’
Children’s charity the NSPCC has warned that government proposals to cut legal aid for vulnerable children and families would ‘risk miscarriages of family justice’. NSPCC lawyer Barbara Esam said: ‘The proposed, repeated cuts in legal support in family law cases comes at the worst possible time, ...
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Get involved, get posting
Now you can have your say on the Gazette website, as Gazette online now includes blogs and the facility for visitors to add their comments to news stories and blog entries. We are making space for more of your letters, as well as a News blog, ...
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New Business Court is too important to wait for
I tip my hat to Frances Gibb at the Times this week for referencing our story revealing that the Business Court, due to replace the various commercial courts in the new Rolls Building, is slipping back into 2011.
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Random justice?
Julian Young is entitled to feel mightily pleased with himself this morning (see this week’s Lawyer In The News).
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The French estate of an English client: practical aspects
A case study handling the issue of inheritance between England, Wales and France We are to consider the inheritance of the estate of an Englishman deceased in England and owning property in France. The ...
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Insolvency
Data protection – Serious fraud cases – Transfer of data in the public interest In the matter of Madoff Securities International Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice Lewison): 27 February 2009 ...
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Hello, new world
Starting a new blog is always tense – it’s a bit like jumping off a high board at the swimming pool, in that you know it’ll get easier afterwards, but you also know that if you get it wrong, it will hurt, and probably quite a lot.
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Lawyers won't play ball on audit caps
In promoting the benefits of deregulation and global free trade, this week’s report from the Professional Services Global Competitiveness Group sounds a discordant note.
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Employment law: accrual of annual leave and sickness absence
For the modern solicitor it has become essential to develop the ability not only to be all things to all people, but also to be in many different places at the same time.
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Straw's bogus panaceas hide a failure to invest
Gazette readers have reacted furiously to Jack Straw’s provocative assertions about the future of legal aid, as my postbag attests.
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Consumer law
Bank charges – EC law – Fairness – Unfair contract terms Abbey National Plc & seven ors v Office of Fair Trading: CA (Civ Div) (Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls, Lords Justice Waller (vice-president), Lloyd): 26 February ...
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Landlord/tenant
Contracts – Consent to assignment – Leaseholds – Sale by auction Landlord Protect Ltd v St Anselm Development Co Ltd: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Waller, Wilson, Stanley Burnton): 20 February 2009 ...
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Sports law is now an established practice area
The ties between the solicitors’ profession and sport are long and deep, predating the influx of money that has finally made sport a practice area taken seriously by the largest law firms. It was a solicitor, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, who had the idea to form an ...