All News articles – Page 1361
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Intellectual property
Trademark - Infringement W Spear & Sons Ltd and other companies v Zynga Inc: (ChD) (Mr Justice Henderson): 4 May 2012 The claimant companies were members of a group of ...
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In-house: no more an overhead
Budget restrictions and financial pressures will cause many councils to place increasing demand on their legal teams to deliver efficiencies, while maintaining high professional standards. Most struggle to do this in the traditional way - by reducing overheads, removing staff or cutting service levels. So at Kent, we tried to ...
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Immigration
Detention - Unlawful detention - False imprisonment - Damages BA and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Bail for Immigration Detainees intervening): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Sir Anthony May P, Lady Justice Black and Lord ...
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Human rights
Right to respect for private and family life - Military R (on the application of Harrow Community Support Unit) v Secretary of State for Defence: QBD (Admin) (Mr Justice Haddon-Cave (judgment delivered em<extempore</em)): 10 July 2012 ...
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Hidden Stratford
For readers who, despite it all, have yet to visit Stratford, east London, let Obiter paint a picture. On one side of the main through-road is Olympic Park, Europe’s biggest urban shopping mall and an international railway line (which from Stratford goes all the way ...
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Marriage maid in hell
Obiter’s reminiscences about ‘hired help’ in arranging divorces of yesteryear (8 June 2012) struck a chord with solicitor-advocate Joanna Orlebar-Reid, of John Collis Solicitors. ‘It reminded me of a tale I was told about a man who, to facilitate a divorce based on his adultery, booked himself into a Brighton ...
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Grammar push
I very much agree with Lucinda Moule’s article. I am from a working class background and my school did not push me in the same way that my brother (who went to a boys’ grammar school) and my mother who went to an ‘old style’ grammar school after passing her ...
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In-house: the Government Legal Service
I feel fortunate to have found my way into the Government Legal Service (GLS), which three-and-a-half decades on continues to deliver on its original promise as a career.
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Freezing order
Right to respect for private and family life - Military JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov and others: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Christopher Clarke): 4 July 2012 In August 2009, a ...
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Firm pays tribute to kind solicitor
The funeral will be held next week of solicitor and father-of-three James Ward, who died last month after being shot in his office. The 58-year-old, who helped to found Wiltshire firm Morris Goddard & Ward more than 20 years ago, was described by colleagues as a ...
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‘Monstrous’ NGO prosecutions in Fiji
Contempt proceedings have been brought by the government of Fiji against a non-governmental organisation for quoting from a Law Society Charity report on the country. The Citizens Constitutional Forum, which supports community education and advocacy in relation to Fiji's Constitution, democracy, human rights and multiculturalism, ...
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I look forward to working to ensure the profession thrives
I know that many Law Society members are having a difficult time right now, and it certainly is not the first time in my career that the death of the high street has been predicted. It is also true that current practising and economic conditions are exceptionally testing for many ...
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Immigration red tape deters investors
A stream of ‘excessive and onerous’ restrictions on immigration risks making the UK an unattractive destination for overseas investors, lawyers have warned.
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In-house: delivering the goods
When an in-house lawyer looks at the risks facing their new employer, they should see that the greatest business risks are not about being perfectly right. Often the greater risks to the business would be an inability to act or make decisions. A role as an in-house lawyer is very ...
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Panel cull
I have today (24 July) received an email advising me that I have been removed from Santander’s conveyancing panel with immediate effect due to very few instructions. However, on 1 February 2012, I paid £118.80 to Santander as the fee for its annual panel membership review. ...
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LSC to face judicial review over report costs
The Law Society is to challenge by judicial review a Legal Services Commission decision to meet just one-third of the costs of an expert witness report ordered by a county court on behalf of a child. The LSC declined to pay the full costs of the ...
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Community designs and the design corpus
In a recent case in the ongoing battle between Apple and Samsung, the High Court has provided fresh guidance on assessing the infringement of community designs, and in particular the subject of the ‘existing design corpus’ (or ‘prior art’), and several passing comments which will be of interest to any ...
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Quotas and targets will help change mindset
I write in response to Lucinda Moule’s comment entitled ‘Wrong targets’. I agree that there needs to be more opportunities given to children attending comprehensive schools. However, I do not believe creating more selective schools is the answer. This may be the answer for law firms, but not for the ...