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Adviser warns on traffic accident portal fees
Major upheaval of the personal injury sector is happening too quickly and without evidence to support it, according to the government’s own adviser on the subject.
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My legal life: Christopher Murray
Both of my parents were in the medical profession but as a small child I remember listening to my mother talking about the iniquity of capital punishment – prompted by the Reginald Christie trial – and the likelihood that Timothy Evans had been wrongly hanged for a murder Christie had ...
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My legal life: Helena Kennedy QC
I had from the beginning an idealistic idea that I could be the kind of lawyer who might change things for ordinary people. I thought law could be used as a protection and as a tool for social change. I set up a legal advice centre with a social worker ...
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How To: create a shared back-office
Tuckers is a criminal law firm – one of the UK’s largest. We cover practice areas where margins have been severely challenged by changes in public policy and public funding. In February 2012, we announced our intention to make our billing, diary management and other back-office operations available to rival ...
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Twenty Twenty-four
It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks, like everything else, were striking. Not that anybody noticed. Hilda Smith, her chin nuzzled into her breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the doors of Oceania Legal Services Plc. She was just in ...
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Cool reaction to European patent unification
Leading intellectual property lawyers in the UK have reacted coolly to the unitary patent and unified patent court process approved by the European parliament on Tuesday. ‘No one can doubt that having a single system is, in principle, a good idea,’ said Claire Bennett, partner in international firm DLA Piper's ...
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Fiji rule of law report found in contempt
A Methodist minister in Fiji is awaiting sentencing for contempt after he quoted a Law Society Charity report whose contents were first revealed in the Gazette. The organisation headed by the Reverend Akuila Yabaki, the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum, also faces a crippling fine for ‘scandalising the court’ after its newsletter ...
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