All articles by Michael Cross – Page 88
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NewsFreshfields heads Ireland’s solicitor ‘Brexodus’ table
Law Society of Ireland releases details of ‘tsunami’ of England and Wales solicitors going on its roll.
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NewsTurkish lawyers praised for human rights work
Murdered lawyer among four honoured as European bar association highlights Turkey's crackdown on lawyers.
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OpinionHow the Wizard got to Number 10
It’s 100 years since David Lloyd George became the first solicitor to rise to prime minister. By a well-timed palace coup.
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NewsSlater and Gordon to chase £53m refund on Quindell
Barrister’s opinion buoys Australian firm’s legal claim over 2015 acquisition.
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NewsEversheds reveals transatlantic tieup talks
Merger with Sutherland would create global firm with 2,300 lawyers.
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NewsAutumn statement: ‘unacceptable’ attack on tax lawyers
New reporting burden will be counterproductive, international firm’s head of tax warns.
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NewsAutumn statement: U-turn on Land Registry
For the second time in two years, government abandons plans to sell off Land Registry.
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NewsJudge rules on £55m oil dispute after one-day hearing
Case is first to be decided under the ‘shorter trials scheme’.
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NewsSolicitor appointed as deputy High Court judge
Peter Marquand is head of the clinical law department at healthcare and commercial firm Capsticks.
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Cryogenics case not a precedent
Ruling in Re JS (Disposal of Body) resolves dispute between parents of dying 14-year-old, judge says.
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OpinionAt last: a digital success in justice
Crown court judges have forsaken paper for laptops. That’s worth celebrating, but doesn’t mean IT is all downhill from here.
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NewsSolicitor ‘gave veneer of respectability’ to £2.8m fraud
Leeds practitioner Stephen Pickard jailed for eight years.
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NewsNew manifesto for homebuying reform
Streamlining money laundering rules, leasehold reform and a big push towards electronic conveyancing identified as priorities by the Conveyancing Association.
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News‘Viewing centres’ to preserve open justice in online age
‘Justice must not disappear down an Alice-style rabbit hole,’ says senior presiding judge.
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OpinionIs criticising judges only for the posh prints?
Britons have been denigrating the judiciary at least since Hogarth. Long may it continue.
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NewsGovernment seeks views on press legal costs regime
Culture secretary says time is right to consider ‘incentive’ provisions of Crime and Courts Act.
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NewsLegal privilege safeguard strengthened in snooping bill
Law Society welcomes last-minute amendments to Investigatory Powers Bill.
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OpinionHeathrow runway litigation: brace for impact
Further rounds of legal challenges to airport expansion will bring the law into disrepute.
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Heathrow Airport expansion faces multiple legal challenges
Government hopes for a ‘national policy statement’ fast-track likely to be confounded, planning expert says.
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NewsSociety condemns penalties for 'enablers' of disallowed tax schemes
HMRC proposals could breach three articles of human rights convention, Chancery Lane says.