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Publicity order
Claimant submitting defendant failing to comply with publicity notice – Claimant applying for further order Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd v Apple Inc: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Mr Justice Longmore, Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob): 9 November 2012 ...
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Working for nothing
I read the Gazette front page of 8 November, ‘Pro bono hours dip as funding cuts loom’, with interest and, as an old-fashioned professional, a degree of concern. I do some pro bono even in my tiny firm but it did provoke a question. In the modern competitive world where ...
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Overdue merger
The merger of Solicitors in Local Government and the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors is long overdue and enables local government’s top legal talent to come together in one organisation and speak with one voice. This is a positive development many years in the making and bodes well for ...
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Merger threat to Whitehall lawyers
Government lawyers fear cost-cutting consolidation plans will lead to big job losses and attacks on their employment conditions. The merger of legal functions appears set to incorporate cuts deeper than envisaged in the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review. Correspondence seen by the ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, November 1952The service of the law by Sir Hartley Shawcross It was one of those first-class Pullman cars they have on these trains to Eastbourne. It was a crowded carriage as first-class carriages always are in these difficult times. Why is it ...
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What government legal service mergers mean
Should the merger of government legal functions – the so-called ‘shared services’ model – be of concern to the lawyers affected? It isn’t scare-mongering to say that for many it should, even though the immediate effect may be minimal. The shared services programme is separate ...
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Roll up for Stones gig
Not fade away – Obiter is old enough to remember when (pace the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974) talk of the Rolling Stones and the law would involve lurid tales of confectionery bars and butterflies broken upon wheels.
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Plane fury
I sit at my desk reading the latest Gazette with my blood pressure at boiling point due to the article about the former aviation director suggesting the legal profession does more to help self-represented people.
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Pilot fright
So Peter Elliott, former aviation director, was ‘utterly frightened’ when appearing in person in the High Court. We must sympathise. How would a lawyer feel if, on arriving at the airport, he was told that without any training he must fly the aeroplane himself with only ...
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‘Traditional’ law firm numbers plummet
The number of sole practitioners and traditional partnerships has fallen dramatically over the past three years, according to new figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Providing an insight into a profession in the midst of unprecedented change, the figures show that since October 2009, the ...
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Fears LETR may lead to ‘misguided reform’
A forthcoming report on the case for reforming legal education and training may be ‘unbalanced or worse’, the UK’s senior judge said in a lecture last week. According to Lord Neuberger, ‘misguided reform’ initiated by the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) may ‘undermine the rule of law and our ...
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Everybody needs good neighbours
London is a melting pot all right, and no one knows that better than Solicitors Regulation Authority board member Sara Nathan. The one-time editor of Channel 4 News, who is an observant Jew, knows the value of neighbourliness in a city where – as archetypal Londoner and Madness frontman Suggs ...
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European Union
Value added tax – Refund of tax – Latvian tax authority declining to refund Mednis SIA v Valsts ienemumu dienests: Court of Justice of the European Union (Third Chamber) (Judges Lenaerts (Rapporteur acting as President)), Juhasz, Arestis, von Danwitz ...
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Discrimination
Sex discrimination – Discrimination on ground of sexual orientation Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) v Charity Commission for England and Wales: Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber): 2 November 2012 ...
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Existing sanctions sufficient for disclosure failures, judges rule
Senior judges today rejected the creation of additional sanctions for disclosure failures against either the prosecution or defence in criminal cases. A review of sanctions, requested by former lord chancellor Kenneth Clarke and carried out by Lord Justice Gross and Lord Justice Treacy, instead advocates updates ...
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High Court judge to visit law firms
The only solicitor High Court judge is to visit legal firms to find out why the number of solicitors applying for judicial appointment is so ‘disappointingly low’, in a bid to improve diversity. Mr Justice Hickinbottom, who is also joint senior liaison judge for diversity, will ...
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Private contribution
Another article in the Gazette about the reduction in pro bono work by solicitors. It is a sad indictment of the profession that, at a time when legal aid and funding for voluntary sector advice agencies are being slashed, denying access to justice to vast numbers, some firms feel justified ...
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Judges’ pension cut threat to City's dispute resolution status
Reform of the judicial pension scheme will threaten the UK’s position as a centre for high-quality dispute resolution, a City lobby group warned this week. TheCityUK, which promotes London around the world, said including the judiciary in a one-size-fits-all plan for civil service pensions would have ...