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Lloyds deal opens way to Co-op expansion
The Co-operative Group could sell legal services from almost 1,000 bank branches, giving it an outlet on nearly every high street in the country following a deal to buy 632 Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham & Gloucester branches. The group announced this morning that it had agreed ...
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No costs savings
Since 19 March we have been required to send all CPR Part 7 designated money only claims to the County Court Money Claims Centre at the Salford Business Centre. The goal is to reduce costs and processing time.
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European court in judicial selection crisis
The crisis in Europe’s top court was set to escalate this week, with the 27 EU member states arguing over how to select 12 more judges to help handle a mounting caseload. The president of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which is ...
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Courtroom interpreter 'savings' evaporate
The Ministry of Justice has admitted that £12m of savings predicted for the first year of controversial new arrangements for courtroom interpreting ‘will probably not be achieved’. The announcement, by justice minister Lord McNally, came as the ministry declined to reveal the cost of the ...
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Dabbling in politics
Just what is going on with our leading firms? Last week the Guardian reported that the big cheeses of the accountancy world - KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and Ernst & Young - were almost permanent fixtures in the corridors of power. Electoral Commission figures showed the firms had donated £1.9m in ...
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Disclosure
Confidential information - Intellectual property Phillips v Mulcaire: Supreme Court (Lords Hope DP, Walker, Kerr, Clarke and Dyson SCJJ): 4 July 2012 The Supreme Court dismissed the defendant's appeal in ...
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International regulation of unmanned military drones needed
Let’s hear it for the Methodists. I declare an interest. I am from non-conformist stock on both sides - dour, pledge-signing, earnest folk. No surprise to me and my kind that the established church spent its recent synod counting the number of women bishops that you can get on the ...
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EU
Commission - Decision - Applicant software company found to have abused dominant position in PC operating system market Microsoft Corporation v European Commission: General Court of the European Union (Second Chamber) (Judges Forwood (rapporteur) (president), Dehousse, Schwarcz): 27 June ...
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MoJ ‘hell-bent’ on expanding RTA process
The government this week rejected calls to tear up its timetable for boosting the role of the RTA portal for low-value claims - despite a call by its own expert adviser for a pause. In a long-awaited report published on the day before parliament’s summer recess, ...
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No extra pay for ‘speedy’ justice
Solicitors could end up working seven days a week without extra pay to cover anti-social hours under government plans to extend court sittings. Proposals to introduce early morning and evening sittings and Sunday courts were among measures set out last week in a white paper ...
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PII special: guidance for firms
There is now a great deal of information and guidance available to help legal practices find the right professional indemnity insurance (PII) package for their needs. I hope that legal practices will not go into the renewal process without using this free advice.
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‘Frumpy legal profession’ in need of revolution
The threats and challenges faced by lawyers can be blamed on the ‘egregious failure of a frumpy profession’ to reform itself in line with the rapidly changing legal landscape, a Canadian law professor told the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) Symposium in Manchester last week.
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Intellectual property
Patent - Infringement - Design HTC Europe Co Ltd v Apple Inc: Chancery Division, Patents Court (Mr Justice Floyd): 4 July 2012 The Chancery Division, Patents Court, held that a ...
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Intellectual property
Interlocutory - Damages not appropriate remedy EMI (IP) Ltd v British Sky Broadcasting Group plc: Chancery Division (Mr John Baldwin QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the Chancery Division)): 25 June 2012 ...
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Intellectual property
Infringement - Use of similar trademark - ‘Budweiser’ Budejovicky Budvar Narodni Podnik v Anheuser-Busch Inc: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justice Ward, Mr Justice Warren, Sir Robin Jacob): 3 July 2012 ...