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Mortgagee problem
Surely it is about time the Land Registry devised a scheme to deal with slow or incompetent mortgagees who fail to discharge their registered interest following payment of redemption monies. The Registry is quick enough to refuse to process an application by a transferee and ...
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Rocket Lawyer ready for UK launch
One of the US’s biggest legal brands has confirmed it will enter the UK market from next month. Rocket Lawyer, which offers a do-it-yourself online template as well as referrals to a 25-firm panel, will go live from the end of November after a digital ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, 11 October 1972 Excerpts from the inaugural address by President of the Law Society Sir Desmond Heap LLM People and Lawyers It is a matter of astonishment for lawyers that they seem to be regarded ...
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What kind of society do we want to be?
I read with some disgust the view expressed by Jonathan Davis in this column. If we are to follow his view then it is his position that is the intolerant and discriminatory attitude, and he may well ask ‘what kind of society are we…’ to ...
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Irish rise
Is this year’s International Bar Association conference the biggest global gathering of lawyers ever, anywhere? The organisers certainly seem to think so, and, though vast, the premises of the Royal Dublin Society struggled to cope with a cast of thousands at Sunday’s opening ceremony. About 150 latecomers were locked out ...
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Policing professionals - international regulators
Last week, the Solicitors Regulation Authority held the first conference of its kind for international regulators.
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Appellant being Turkish national KA (Turkey) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Rix, Tomlinson and McFarlane): 12 September 2012 ...
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Immigration
Liberty - Detention - Sentence of imprisonment for public protection Secretary of State for the Home Department v FV (Italy): CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Pill, Aikens, Lady Justice Rafferty): 14 September 2012 ...
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Human rights
Liberty - Detention - Sentence of imprisonment for public protection James and others v United Kingdom (app nos 25119/09, 57715/09 and 57877/09): European Court of Human Rights (Judges Lech Garlicki (president), David Thór Björgvinsson, Nicolas Bratza, George Nicolaou, Zdravka ...
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Focus on value proposition
Law firm marketing is often seen as the department which does the brochures, the website and runs events. It is relatively rare that the marketing team is consulted in areas such as pricing, but all a firm’s effort and expenditure on promotion may amount to nothing if the solicitor receiving ...
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IP violations revealed by EU
EU customs officers detained almost 115 million products suspected of violating intellectual property rights in 2011 compared with 103 million in 2010, the latest European Commission annual report on customs efforts to enforce IPR has revealed. The intercepted goods were valued at £1.04bn compared with £880m ...
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Kurds fight ‘flood’ of English solicitors
Lawyers in the oil-rich Kurdistan region of Iraq are threatening court action against English solicitors who they accuse of practising in the country without a licence. ‘Our members, 9,000 lawyers, have asked us to stop the flood of foreign lawyers,’ Wrya Saadi Ahmed (pictured), president of the Kurdish Bar Association, ...
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Rules of engagement
Normally, solicitors get the luxury of attending the opening of the legal year at Westminster Abbey, digesting all that flows from that and then heading off a few weeks later to the International Bar Association (IBA). Not this year. Having attended the opening of the legal year, lots of solicitors ...
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Easy Ryder
Nice to see the national press playing to stereotype at the lord chief justice’s annual press conference at the Royal Courts of Justice last week. The Daily Mail asked if capital punishment should return, the Evening Standard wanted to know if the Abu Hamza case had ...
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Middle Eastern promise
Fancy somewhere different for a holiday this year? With sunshine, mountains and a fascinating local culture and history? Obiter suggests Iraqi Kurdistan. The semi-autonomous province is accessible, friendly and the prospect of oil wealth has encouraged a spate of luxury hotel building. Though you’ll want to avoid the seven-star end ...
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Society demands insurance reform
Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson has called for immediate reform of the insurance industry after a damning report by the Office of Fair Trading. The consumer watchdog last week reported the industry to the Competition Commission after finding that motorists are being charged too much after an accident. ...
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Criminal reaccreditation scheme on hold
The Law Society has postponed plans to reaccredit criminal solicitors every five years, following consultation with the profession. The Society consulted in April on a proposal that members of the Criminal Litigation Accreditation Scheme (CLAS) should undergo a regulatory check every five years, confirming that they ...
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Fewer firms without PII cover set to enter pool
Almost 30 firms had applied to enter the assigned risks pool (ARP) within two days of the professional indemnity insurance deadline passing, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said on Tuesday. The regulator’s figures show 28 firms had failed to secure cover on the open market as ...