Last 3 months headlines – Page 756
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NewsLitigation funder backs £100m trucking cartel claim
Collyer Bristow to represent claimants who fell foul of trucking cartel.
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NewsLeigh Day seeking £5m in defence costs over SRA's failed Iraq prosecution
Firm applies for order to make the SRA liable for 60% of costs, accusing the regulator of 'ploughing ahead like a rudderless oil tanker'.
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NewsBarrister has toy car confiscated over 'weapon' fears
Criminal Bar Association chief attacks illogical court lists and ‘insulting’ behaviour of staff.
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NewsRedgrave robbed
The paparazzi were poised, the red carpet had been rolled out and autograph hunters were waiting in anticipation. Actor and campaigner Vanessa Redgrave was billed as star of the show at the annual bar conference held in London on 4 November. OK, so the scene might not have been quite ...
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NewsPorridge - Marmalade's off
A mystery is solved. A year ago we reported that the makers of the next Paddington Bear film were seeking a copy of the Gazette as ‘set dressing’. At the time, we speculated that our ursine friend might find himself needing legal advice on matters of immigration and asylum. We ...
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NewsCard work
Is it too early to start thinking about Christmas? Anthony Wooding, senior and managing partner of Ipswich and Colchester firm Kerseys, has provided the perfect excuse to start feeling festive. Wooding has designed a Christmas card to help raise funds for Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality, which is ...
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NewsBarristers best placed for ‘gig economy’ shift, says young bar chief
Tech-savvy barristers are ideally placed to take advantage of the so-called ‘gig economy’.
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NewsSir Henry Brooke's legal aid rallying cry
Standing ovation as renowned chair hits out at recent cuts.
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NewsMemory lane
The Law Society Gazette, 15 November 2007 SRA issues warning on business models The Solicitors Regulation Authority last week urged solicitors to be ‘particularly cautious’ if approached about taking advantage of new business structures to be allowed under the Legal Services Act. The regulator said there could be conflict issues ...
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NewsNews focus: Don't blow a fuse over online civil court
Wary of previous IT fiascos, Whitehall has adopted an agile approach to building the online civil court envisaged by Lord Justice Briggs as part of a £1bn reform programme
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News‘End anguish over estate benefits’, says solicitor
Unmanageable government requests cause misery for the bereaved.
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NewsEuropean law firms set for Brexit 'sponsorship' to take on English giants?
Indigenous firms will provide specialist services to counter impact of City firms.
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NewsOne in four set to quit as pay lags inflation
Pay is failing to keep up with inflation in almost every sector of the profession and a quarter of legal professionals plan to quit, according to an annual market bellwether.
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NewsSolicitor jailed for 10 years for eco-investment tax scam
Rodney Whiston-Dew ’simply motivated by a desire to become extremely rich and to evade tax’.
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Law Society set to intervene in key privilege case
Chancery Lane says ruling could have ’perverse effect of discouraging firms from self-reporting’.
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NewsUber employment ruling a 'landmark' for gig economy - but taxi app fights on
Taxi company must recognise drivers as workers, Employment Appeal Tribunal rules.
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NewsSRA will be 'more responsive' by 2020, vows director
New strategy gives insight into how regulator expects to evolve over coming years.
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NewsFirst swaps mis-selling case heads to Rolls Building
Claim against Barclays for the alleged mis-selling of financial products will be heard in the commercial court on Monday.
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NewsMoJ backtracks on Keen's discount rate dates
Lawyers told to expect legislation a year later than minister had hoped.