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Closing the door
I have never before, in over 30 years in the law, been moved to write to the Gazette. However, the article by Solicitors Regulation Authority board chair Charles Plant so incensed me that I felt the need to put pen to paper.
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Company markets 'first criminal legal insurance policy'
A criminal barrister has formed a company to market what he says is the UK’s first criminal legal insurance policy. For an annual premium of £29.99, the policy provides up to £20,000 worth of cover for a defendant’s means-tested Crown court legal aid contribution or their privately funded legal fees.
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Legal Ombudsman delays complaints publication
Publication of complaints made to the Legal Ombudsman about solicitors has been deferred, the Gazette can reveal. The ombudsman (LeO) had intended to collate all complaints from the first quarter of the 2012/13 financial year to post firm-by-firm details online this month. But the LeO’s office ...
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Redress offered for mis-selling interest rate hedging products is hardly draconian
by Stuart Brothers, a consultant to SRBlegal Business Lawyers. He contributed to the FSA review and briefed a group of MPs on the issue The Financial Services Authority’s review of interest rate hedging products has resulted in an agreement by the four major banks to offer ...
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Equality is overdue
I welcome the Law Society’s support for equal marriage for same-sex couples. This measure is overdue. Civil partnership provides same-sex couples with most, but not all, the rights of married couples. Yet it is a ‘separate-but-equal’ institution simply designed to deny full marriage to lesbians ...
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Stopping extradition
Much has been made of the home secretary’s anger at article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (private and family life), preventing deportations from the UK (see Rights and Wrongs). Article 8 has, however, played little role in extradition cases, at least until the Supreme Court’s important judgment ...
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Extradition
Extradition hearing - European Arrest Warrant - Defendants’ extradition sought by relevant judicial authority pursuant to European Arrest Warrant HH v Deputy Prosecutor of the Italian Republic, Genoa; PH v Deputy Prosecutor of the Italian Republic, Genoa; F-K (FC) ...
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Site falls short
Joshua Rozenberg, in his article on the National Archives searching for volunteers to update the online statute book thought law librarians would be clamouring to volunteer. What we certainly would do is clamour to correct his statement that ‘legislation.gov.uk is a comprehensive website of primary and secondary legislation to 1267’. ...
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Law Society steps up pressure on Fiji
Fiji’s continued refusal to allow foreign scrutiny of its rule of law has come under public criticism from outgoing Law Society president John Wotton. Wotton’s move follows the publication of a highly critical report by the Law Society Charity, first revealed in the Gazette.
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Taking a view on gay marriage
I confess to having been taken aback that a committee of the Law Society has responded to the government’s consultation on ‘gay marriage’ at all, but the more so because its response is prefaced by a reference to the Society representing solicitors in England and Wales, thus giving the impression ...
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IFA rule under scrutiny
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has signalled that it is likely to scrap the requirement for lawyers to refer clients only to wholly independent financial advisers, as opposed to advisers contracted to sell the products of one or more providers.
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Immigration
Leave to enter - Refugee - Asylum SK (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division: 19 June 2012 The Court of Appeal, Civil ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Indefinite leave to remain - Claimants applying for judicial review R (on the application of Gurung and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London) (Mr Justice Eady): ...
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Our work needs to be informed by the views practitioners
This is my last opportunity to write to the profession as president of the Law Society, so I shall use this column to thank all those who have supported me over the past year and to reflect on the issues that seem most important as I hand over to my ...
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Intellectual property
Patent - Infringement - Validity of patent - Novelty Molnlycke Health Care AB v Brightwake Ltd (trading as Advancis Medical): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Ward, Etherton and Lewison): 24 April 2012 ...
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Intellectual property
Petition for revocation - Obviousness - Defendant company holding patent Smith & Nephew plc v Convatec Technologies Inc: Chancery Division, Patents Court (Judge Birss QC (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court)): 13 June 2012 ...
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Jurisdiction
Conflict of laws - Whether proceedings should be stayed Joint Stock Company Aeroflot Russian Airlines v Berezovsky and others: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Floyd): 18 June 2012 The Commercial Court ...
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Party line
Last week’s Law Society Summer Party at the Wallace Collection in Marylebone took place in what can only be described as London’s grandest conservatory. Any number of the great and good turned up, including Ken Clarke, whose cheerful insouciance amid a throng not universally well disposed to his policies can ...
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Right message
Camden Community Law Centre was pleased to see the Law Society’s support for equality in the item about same-sex marriage. We congratulate the Society on speaking out. We believe that the Society should speak out on issues of equality in the law. ...