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Extradition
Appeal – Respondent judicial authority requesting appellant's extradition to serve remainder of sentence following various offences Neuman v Circuit Court of Katowice, Poland: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court: 15 February 2013 ...
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Figure it out
A dip in interpreter provision. And on whose figures? Even Capita is now hard-pressed to attempt to present a positive picture. I have striven again and again in letters to the Ministry of Justice, from the secretary of state downwards, to secure a straight answer to a simple though basic ...
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Lords fold on health and safety reform
The House of Lords has backed down over government plans to make it more difficult to sue employers for health and safety breaches at work. Peers were forced to vote for a second time last night on the aspect of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill ...
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Showbiz policing – the Met’s got form
I read today that police have arrested three men in ‘dawn raids’ in connection with violence at the FA Cup semi-final match between Millwall and Wigan. One suspect is photographed being dragged into a police van. Why ‘dawn raids’? And why were the media in attendance ...
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Immigration
Rules – Amendment being made – Immigration Rules imposing pre-entry English language test for foreign spouses and partners of British citizens or persons settled in UK R (on the application of Bibi and another v Secretary of State for ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, 28 April 1982The international law background to the Falkland Islands dispute The most obvious current breach of international law relates to Argentina’s actions on Friday 2 April and following. Argentina has little right at international law to object to a British military ...
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Title lapse
About a week ago we received yet another email from the Solictors Regulation Authority, on this occasion regarding a number of important rule changes in connection with personal injury cases. The letter commenced ‘Dear sirs’. As far as we are aware there are a large number ...
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Olympic medallist set for London Legal Walk
Swapping water for dry land, Olympic rowing gold medallist Katherine Grainger will set the pace at this year’s London Legal Walk. The postgraduate law student, who won a gold medal in the double sculls event at the London Olympics, will be part of the King’s ...
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WHSmith tie-up had mixed results, QS pioneer says
A leading figure at high street brand QualitySolicitors has admitted the tie-up with WHSmith has not worked for all signatory firms. John Baden-Daintree, head of legal services at QS, told the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) conference last Friday that some practices had seen few ...
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PCT: reverse psychology
Two questions. Question one: Have you signed the petition protesting about price-competitive tendering? Question two: Do you think it will make the slightest difference? I wonder if we have got it completely wrong in our protesting. The more we protest the less likely the protests ...
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PII prescription from Society?
The 8 April Gazette contains the president’s invitation to submit suggestions as to how the Law Society could help solicitors. Here is mine.
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Solicitor appears on £3.7m fraud charge
A Cheltenham solicitor and coroner has appeared in court charged with fraud and theft of more than £3.7m. Alan Crickmore, who until December 2012 practised from his firm Alan C Crickmore, was charged with 13 counts of theft, seven counts of fraud by abuse of his ...
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ABS delay frustrating for Scottish lawyers
Firms in Scotland are growing increasingly frustrated by delays to the advent of alternative business structures north of the border, according to senior lawyers. The Law Society of Scotland confirmed last week that its plans to be an approved regulator of the new entities are on ...
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EU accession to the ECHR will change Euro legal framework
For as long as I have been a legal journalist, I have tried to explain to people that there are two separate European courts run by two unrelated European bodies. The 47-member Council of Europe administers the European Convention on Human Rights and supports a court in Strasbourg that decides ...
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Human rights accession breakthrough
A ‘decisive’ breakthrough has been made in the 33-month-long negotiations on how the EU is to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights. Negotiators for the EU and for the 47 Council of Europe signatories to the convention finalised a draft accession agreement on ...
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Grayling achieves the impossible
Criminal solicitors and barristers are slowly getting to grips with the enormity of the legal aid changes proposed by the Ministry of Justice in its consultation last week. Most were stunned by the plans, which went much further than even the most pessimistic had expected and seemed to have been ...
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Trust is ‘key to breaking South Africa legal market’
Long-term relationships are all-important when breaking into the South African legal services market, a UK lawyer has advised on the eve of a Law Society-led delegation’s visit to Cape Town. Kerry Underwood, senior partner of Hertfordshire firm Underwoods, who has been lecturing and practising in South ...
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Legal Aid Agency plans for austere year
The Legal Aid Agency has set out its plan for coping with heavy budget cuts in the year ahead. In its first business plan, published today, the agency, which replaced the Legal Services Commission on 1 April, sets out its ambitions for 2013/14. ...
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Criminal legal aid reforms restrict client choice
The government’s consultation paper ‘transforming legal aid’ does affect one transformation. It transforms people into mere economic units by denying them the simple human dignity of choice.