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Five-star quality
Obiter has been checking to see how Professor Richard Susskind’s new book, Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future, is faring at online retailer Amazon. Publisher OUP has priced the book at £9.99. At the time of writing, some vendors were already offering it at £6.73. ...
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Pull up your socks, Johnny Foreigner
One of the main themes of David Cameron’s recent speech seemed to be deep regret that the EU was just not good enough for the UK. If only it were, he would be delighted to recommend staying. And so he gave poor Johnny Foreigner an ultimatum to pull up his ...
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Going underground
The worm has turned. Obiter is fed up with solicitors automatically appearing as baddies in popular culture (not to mention government policy). It is time to start celebrating the profession’s historic heroes. Hero number one was inspired by this month’s 150th anniversary of the London Underground (pictured). ...
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Injunction
Conflict of laws – Foreign proceedings – Restraint of foreign proceedings Malhotra v Malhotra and another: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court: 30 October 2012 The claimant sought the continuation of ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, January 1913 Official shorthand writers in courts of justice At the Annual General Meeting of the Society a resolution was passed referring it to the Council to consider and report whether it would be desirable that official shorthand ...
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Lobbying by lawyers – a prickly path
I often avoid writing about sensitive topics, out of cowardice. One of these has been the hyper-sensitive subject of governmental lobbying by lawyers, which is of interest both in the UK and in the EU.
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My legal life: Philip Trott
My mother was a political refugee. The family saw Hitler coming, and took a very circuitous route from Czechoslovakia to Bedford Street, London, and refuge here. Ultimately, hearing and seeing what the family had gone through caused me to practise immigration law.
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Let it snow
How well did your firm or department cope with the snow? (Or how well are you coping? I realise it’s still very much there for some of you.) That’s not just a polite enquiry – though of course I do care – but I actually think ...
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Wall treat
A solicitor’s office in the City. Brewer, the office manager, sees pretty new 19-year-old intern Pat as fair game. Meanwhile, cynical Miss Janus’s romantic life seems to be over as she is jilted by her lover at the desperate age of 35... Sound familiar? That’s the ...
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Law firms make gay-friendly top 100
Eight law firms feature in campaigning charity Stonewall’s list of the top-100 gay-friendly workplaces, published today. City firm Simmons & Simmons (pictured) leads the way, in ninth place. Baker & McKenzie is 19th, followed by Pinsent Masons, Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells, which all have ...
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40 jobs at risk at CMS Cameron McKenna
City firm CMS Cameron McKenna has confirmed it has put 40 roles in the UK at risk of redundancy. The announcement was made today following a review of the domestic business structure. The roles are a mixture of legal, legal support and secretarial, with 26 of ...
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As easy as A-B-S: extra tools in your armoury
It is nearly 10 months since the Solicitors Regulation Authority approved its first alternative business structures and over a year since the regulator was granted permission to do so. How has it been for you? There’s a tendency among some Gazette readers to blame the process ...
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Six more firms win ABS status
Personal injury firms from both the defendant and claimant sectors are among a glut of new alternative business structures announced today. The Solicitors Regulation Authority confirmed the identities of six new licences to take the total it has granted up to 74. Six more are due ...
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Betfair founder backs new ABS Brilliant Law
A team of non-solicitors with financial support from the founder of betting exchange website Betfair has announced its arrival into the legal market. Former Minster Law chief executive Matthew Briggs (pictured) and one-time BSkyB director Jeremy Fenn will be joint managers of Leeds-based Brilliant Law. ...
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Praying for absolution
A two-hour parliamentary committee hearing on banking regulation last week threw up some interestingly different approaches to keeping professionals in line. First up on the topic was Antony Townsend, chief executive of the SRA, who explained that: ‘Those we regulate do look at sanctions and the risk of public identification ...
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Lawyers can access unredacted records
In a groundbreaking Court of Appeal case, a distinguished panel of appeal judges (Lord Justices Kay and Munby) decided that the practice of redacting social care records was not usually necessary where litigation under civil procedure rules was being conducted. The judgment departed from reasoning in both lower courts, in ...
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Decisions affecting litigants in person
Two recent decisions of the Court of Appeal have affirmed that the provisions of Civil Procedure Rule 27.11 and 39.3 should be interpreted rigorously. More interesting, however, is the fact that at a time when the courts are likely to see more and more ‘self-representing parties’, the decisions suggest that ...
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Education and training review delayed again
Publication of the Legal Education and Training Review’s (LETR’s) research report, which is expected to recommend the most fundamental reform of legal education in 30 years, has been delayed for a second time with no revised date for when it is likely to be released.
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Call for criminal sanctions against care home owners
A former health minister today called for legislation to hold corporations criminally accountable for abuse and neglect in care homes. In a 10-minute rule motion, Lib Dem MP Paul Burstow proposed a new offence of corporate neglect where senior management allowed abuse to occur. ...