All News articles – Page 1421
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Debt fear factor
I am surprised that the Solicitors Regulation Authority thinks that removal of the minimum salary will improve opportunities for those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
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Law Society declares support for same-sex marriage
The Law Society will today enter the escalating political row over same-sex marriage by declaring its support for legalisation – while defending the ‘religious freedom’ of churches and other faith groups that refuse to perform ceremonies. The Society’s response to a Government Equalities Office consultation, which ...
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Law Society dismisses ‘nonsensical’ third-party redress plans
The Law Society has dismissed as ‘nonsensical’ a suggestion that solicitors should have to provide redress to third parties to whom they owe no professional duty. The Legal Services Consumer Panel’s proposal to create a general right for third parties – those who are not a ...
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Employment
Unfair dismissal - Reason for dismissal Ackroyd & others v Meter U Ltd and another case: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mrs Justice Slade, Mrs M McArthur and Mr A Harris): 28 February 2012 ...
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Equal opportunities
It is essential that the issue of elitism is tackled head on, but there is no simple solution (‘Top firms told to stop cherry-picking from Oxbridge’). The National Admissions Test for Law was established eight years ago to ‘level the educational playing field’ and tests a ...
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Extradition
Extradition hearing – European Arrest Warrant – Appellant being arrested pursuant to European Arrest Warrant Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority: SC (Justices of the Supreme Court, Lords Phillips (president), Walker, Brown, Mance, Kerr, Dyson, Lady Hale): 30 May 2012 ...
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Family proceedings
Disclosure of documents - Third party Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Charman and another: Family Division (Mr Justice Coleridge): 29 May 2012 The Family Division, in dismissing an application ...
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High notes
Old Africa hand Obiter has always had a thing for South African music. Think Soweto Beats, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela. And now also think Cape Town Opera, which came to Oxford for the European premiere of its musical tribute to elder statesman Nelson Mandela earlier this week. ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Claimants appealing Patel and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lady Justice Hallett and Lord Justice Stanley Burnton): 1 June 2012 ...
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Insolvency
Property available for distribution – Pari passu – Anti-deprivation Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Football League Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice David Richards): 25 May 2012 The Chancery Division declined the ...
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Why the SRA scrapped the minimum salary for trainees
Since a minimum salary for trainees was introduced in 1982, there have been numerous debates around the appropriateness of both the SRA and the Law Society intervening in the market for trainee solicitors. Today the SRA is one of the few professional regulators that currently sets a minimum salary for ...
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Modern profession
I have just read Susan Singleton’s response to my earlier letter about the trainee minimum wage. Her letter is indicative of the current state of mind of the profession.
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Tough questions
Mission creep was always a danger for Obiter’s friend Lord Justice Leveson (pictured). It was maybe there from the very moment the prime minister decided that a little local trouble with endemic phone hacking at News of the World merited a wide-ranging look at the relationship between media, politicians and ...
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Social security
Services for sick and disabled persons - Assessment of needs of sick and disabled persons - Direct payments R (on the application of KM) (by his mother and litigation friend) v Cambridgeshire County Council: Supreme Court (Lords Phillips, Walker, ...
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Street wise
Hackney Community Law Centre, as you would expect, is hip and down with the people. This week sees the launch of its Community Law Shop service, where it is taking legal advice to the streets. In step with one of the latest marketing wheezes, it has styled its new initiative ...
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Private equity firm takes stake in ABS
Former Dragon’s Den investor James Caan (pictured) has announced that his private equity company is to invest in a regional commercial firm. Caan’s company Hamilton Bradshaw will invest an undisclosed sum in Staffordshire-based Knights as it applies to become an alternative business structure. ...