All News articles – Page 1402
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Why should solicitors pick up the tab?
The article by District Judge Richard Chapman was surely four days too late for the April Fool joke that I assume it was.
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Moot point
Leeds University Law School’s team narrowly beat City University Law School in the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting’s annual mooting competition. In the finals, held at the Law Society, the mooting problem focused on a Court of Appeal case concerning a possible murder charge over a decision to withhold treatment ...
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Reaching a verdict: miscarriages of justice
For lawyers there are few more emotive matters than a miscarriage of justice. Small wonder then that the angst around the failures of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is much more than existential. Defence lawyers and campaigners for reform of the CCRC describe an organisation that is hamstrung by ...
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Jurisdiction
High Court - Inherent jurisdiction - Circumstances in which exercisable A Local Authority and others v DL: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Maurice Kay, McFarlane and Davis): 28 March 2012 ...
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Intellectual property
Equity - Confidence - Breach of confidence Force India Formula One Team Ltd v 1 Malaysia Racing Team SDN BHD and others: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Arnold): 21 March 2012 ...
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The Leveson Inquiry
The government announced plans last month to bring an end to the use of wild animals in travelling circuses in England. Great news for animal lovers concerned by the risk of mistreatment and cruelty to animals. But will it herald the demise of this unique entertainment event? If so, help ...
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Personal injury
Damages - Discount made for future pecuniary loss Simon v Helmot: Privy Council (Lords Hope, Brown, Clarke, Dyson, Lady Hale): 7 March 2012 Privy Council: In dismissing an appeal ...
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Greed is not good
‘New York has nothing to fear from alternative business structures’, says the Law Society president. As a solicitor who retired about 10 years ago, I wish to express my astonishment at that statement. Mr Wotton has a short memory concerning the so-called liberalisation of the ...
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Gap in the market
We are in a period of profound change. Last month saw the culmination of the ambitions of legislators to liberalise the legal market with the approval of the first SRA-licensed alternative business structures. Their introduction heralds a major restructuring of the way in which legal services will be delivered in ...
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Obligations first
Articles entitled ‘Some "rights" have limitations appear when a system of law espouses a doctrine of rights that has no, or at best an attenuated, concept of obligations as the correlative of rights. As Immanuel Kant explained during the Enlightenment and Onora O’Neill outlined more recently in her Reith Lectures ...
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ET or not ET? That is the question
When an employment lawyer dies it must be tempting for those left behind to draw upon the career of the deceased when considering an inscription for the tombstone. Some may aspire to the simple phrase: ‘He lived as he died; scandalous, vexatious and with no reasonable prospect of success.’ For ...
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Dress pass
Even in these casual days, turning up in court inappropriately attired remains the stuff of solicitors’ nightmares. Kevan Lines, of Abertillery firm Lewis & Lines, recalls a ghastly incident a couple of years ago (before the firm gave up publicly funded criminal work). ‘I was phoned by a legal adviser ...
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OFT door still open on HSBC panel investigation
The Law Society has responded robustly to last week’s suggestion that the Office of Fair Trading will not investigate HSBC over the small size of its conveyancing panel. Sole practitioner Elaine McGloin had complained that the lender’s action restricted freedom of consumer choice and was anti-competitive, but the watchdog told ...
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Divorce mediation scheme ‘failing’
Courts are not checking whether divorcing couples have attended meetings to explore mediation and other alternatives before applying to start court proceedings, a survey has found. For the past year, parties have been required to attend mediation assessment and information meetings (MIAMs) to find out ...
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Winner dinner
Chancery Lane commercial partner Hiscox is inviting you to enter its Law Society exclusive prize draw to win a private dinner party. The winning Society member and five guests will be treated to a four-course meal prepared by an expert chef in the winner’s home. To enter you need ...
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Defence firms should make the move to digital working
by Peter Lewis, head of the CJS Efficiency Programme The government has committed to providing a simpler, swifter and more transparent criminal justice service and, as part of this, the core agencies of the criminal justice system (CJS) have committed to ‘going digital’.