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Look out for a clampdown on costs
It’s fair to say that most litigators prefer to spend their time on the cut and thrust of litigation rather than compiling detailed calculations of what they expect their final bill to be.
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CFA does not justify departure on interest rate, Neuberger rules
Interest on costs should run from the date of an order rather than the point where costs are agreed, the master of the rolls, Lord Neuberger, has ruled. In a landmark judgment in Simcoe v Jacuzzi Group UK, Neuberger yesterday held that interest on the costs runs from the date ...
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Something stinks
So as far as I can make out we, a solicitor’s firm, must now go cap in hand to a licensed conveyancer firm if we want to appeal to get on to the panel of a high street bank. And that licensed conveyancer firm, which is on the panel of ...
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Practicalities of unification
In March 1995, Judge David Bentley QC sitting in Sheffield Crown Court was forced to make a public apology after stating that a defendant did not need to ‘stoop so low’ as to employ the services of a solicitor-advocate. The idea that a member of the judiciary could publicly state ...
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Poetic licence
One of Australia’s great literary hoaxes was played on the intellectual magazine ...
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Judicial review
Crown Prosecution Service - Decision to prosecute - Judicial review of decision - Claimant being harassed by F - Restraining order being issued against F R (on the application of Waxman) v Crown Prosecution Service: QBD (Admin) (Lord Justice ...
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Immigration
Leave to enter - Indefinite leave - Spouses, children and other dependant relatives - Appellants being refused leave to enter UK UG (Nepal) v Entry Clearance Officer; NT (Nepal) and another v Entry Clearance Officer; YP (Nepal) v Entry ...
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On top form
I am just recovering from my first attempt at completing the criminal legal aid application forms CDS 14 and 15 on behalf of my client. That these convoluted affairs come with a 22-page guide to their completion, to extract virtually the same information as their predecessors, says it all.
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Tuckers offers services to rival firms
Criminal law firm Tuckers is to make its billing, diary management and other back-office operations available to rival firms in an innovative partnering initiative that it hopes will cut operating costs and save lawyers’ jobs.
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Where lords fear to tread
The House of Lords debate on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill has featured a procession of eminent lawyers honing their advocacy skills. All of which has made it a formidable place for those without a legal background. Some noble lords have been ...
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Violent employees and vicarious liability
In recent times a disproportionate number of cases concerning vicarious liability have reached the higher courts. Sadly, a number of these have involved abuse of children by members of the clergy. Violence is a common feature, though financial wrongdoing was the offence in Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v Salaam [2003] ...
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Download limit
The letter from the grandly titled ‘Programme Director, CJS Efficiency Programme’ at the CPS poses more questions than it answers. Downloading every case in a court building on to the computer of each prosecutor at a court building on a particular day places those prosecutors under ...
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Solicitors enter Dragon’s Den
Gimlet-eyed multi-millionaires look on sceptically as you launch into your business pitch. Pulse tripping, you contemplate the excruciating embarrassment of freezing before the cameras and unseen millions gawping at their TV screens. Or maybe you manage to limp through to the end of your presentation only to hear your ambitions ...
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Setting the date
The announcement by the Sentencing Council on 24 January of a reduction of sentences for those who are drug mules, and not organisers, is long overdue but greatly to be welcomed. The new guideline applies to all offenders aged 18 and over who are sentenced on or after 27 February ...
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Where credit is due
While the online renewals process for practising certificates was confusing and highly stressful for many of us, the SRA deserves credit for the way in which some of its staff handled individual complaints and concerns.
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Courting disorder
I read with some amusement the article regarding complaints about Salford. Obviously those on high have been thinking for some time about the future of court work in this country. We have been steered away from the courts via the urging of the parties to mediate. ...
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County Court reforms could cripple system
by Francesca Kaye, vice-president of the London Solicitors Litigation Association The ministerial foreword to the government’s response to the consultation Solving Disputes in the County Courts states: ‘An effective justice system is the cornerstone of a civilised society… upon which ordinary members of the public rely ...