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Christianity needs more than just ceremonial support
In his letter of 6 May pertaining to the Comment piece by Andrea Minichiello Williams, ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’, Charlie Klendjian does not appear to have as full a grasp of the facts as he claims. First, the Queen, despite her Coronation Oath, has ...
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Pointing the finger at ideologies
In ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’ (28 April), Andrea Minichiello Williams makes the statement, ‘law cannot be divorced from Christianity’, while criticising totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism.
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The law comes first
I read the ‘Comment’ article by Andrea Minichiello Williams. The bottom line has to be that no one should expect to be able to put their own beliefs before the law without consequences. People are, perhaps, arrested, sacked and so ...
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That’s religious progress
In her article about ‘Christian persecution’, Andrea Minichiello Williams writes that, for hundreds of years, ‘most of the great advances in public life, in health care, education and social provision, came as a result of Christian conviction that cares for the good of all’. If ...
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Pro bono approval
On 12 May Jonathan Rayner reported on the ‘outcry’ that has arisen because in-house lawyers might be prevented from working pro bono. In addressing this issue, two principles should be kept in balance:
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Deaf to Denning
I was amused to read the Obiter piece of 12 May entitled ‘Running in the family', about the Law Society president’s daughter being admitted to the roll. I too was witnessed being admitted as a solicitor, more than 30 years ago, while my father, Sir John ...
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CPS under fire over advocate panels
The Crown Prosecution Service faced pressure from both its own inspectorate and the Bar Council this week over its procurement of external advocates. The Gazette has learned that the Bar Council is seeking advice on a judicial review of the CPS’s new advocate panels. ...
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Law firms in cash call to partners
At least five of the top-20 law firms are planning to make a capital call on partners, the Gazette has learned. Mid-tier firms are also seeking to shore up their balance sheets, with at least 15 of the firms in the 20-50 size bracket seeking to ...
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Harrow Law Centre's community approach is the 'model to follow'
The multi-funded community approach adopted by the newly launched Harrow Law Centre is the ‘model to follow’ for the voluntary sector, according to the centre’s chair Pamela Fitzpatrick. Lord Justice Mummery opened the centre, which provides advice on social welfare law, public law, community care, housing, ...
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European Arrest Warrants are 'misused', says FTI
Mismanagement of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) has led to a ‘no questions asked’ extradition regime with severe human and financial costs to those charged with minor offences, according to a report by Fair Trials International (FTI).
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Government seeks views on equal pay audit plans
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is seeking employment lawyers’ views on proposals that would see employers who fail to comply with equal pay laws required to conduct a pay audit of their company. The BIS consultation, published this week, noted that the gender ...
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Court of Appeal in landmark compensation ruling
The Court of Appeal has overturned an Employment Tribunal’s decision to award a dismissed worker career-long compensation. Lord Justice Elias last week ruled that the tribunal had erred in awarding almost £375,000 to banker Michael Wardle in Wardle v Calyon. Wardle ...
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Stress among solicitors remains ‘high'
High numbers of solicitors are seeking help with depression and alcohol addiction problems, according to the latest figures from charity LawCare. The charity’s 2010 annual report, to be published later this year, shows that stress is still by far the biggest problem faced by callers to ...
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Solicitors start road safety campaign
A Cardiff firm has launched a national road safety campaign. Elisabeth Roth and Liz Phipps, solicitors in the personal injury team at Cardiff firm NewLaw, have spearheaded the Improve Roads, Improve Safety (IRIS) initiative in an attempt to reduce deaths on the road. ...
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City lawyer sacked after claiming '£1m' expenses
A City lawyer specialising in fraud cases has been dismissed after ‘wrongly’ claiming more than £1m in expenses from his firm. Christopher Grierson was removed from the partnership at Hogan Lovells after the firm concluded an investigation. Lovells said Grierson, who qualified ...
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Insurers attack high volume of whiplash claims
Insurers have decried the UK as the whiplash capital of Europe with nearly 1,200 claims made every day.
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Immigration lawyers warn of reforms impact
Limits on the number of professional migrants allowed into the UK are ‘politically-driven’ and risk stalling economic recovery and driving business overseas, speakers at an Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers conference in London warned earlier this month. Delegates heard that the UK was ‘bucking the trend’ ...
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Law Society launches Excellence Awards
The Gazette will shortly be seeking a Legal Personality of the Year as one of this year’s Law Society Excellence Awards. For the second year running, we will be inviting readers to nominate lawyers who over the previous 12 months have made an outstanding contribution to ...
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Chancery Lane seeks ‘pause’ to reforms of legal aid
The president of the Law Society has written to justice secretary Ken Clarke calling for a pause in the proposed legal aid reforms. Linda Lee said the proposals ‘amount to a fundamental reshaping of the legal aid scheme’, removing from scope many areas of law that ...
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Clarke mulls privacy law
Ministers, newspaper editors and celebrities will turn their attentions to the Royal Courts of Justice later this week for a landmark development on injunctions. On Friday Lord Neuberger (pictured), master of the rolls, will issue a report on the use of injunctions by a committee of ...