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Social security
Housing benefit - Entitlement - Sheltered accommodation - Claimant in receipt of housing benefit Basey (by his litigation friend) v Oxford City Council: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Mummery, Sullivan): 15 February 2012 ...
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10% damages uplift ‘still fair’ says Jackson
The architect of the government’s civil litigation reforms today rejected calls for a bigger uplift in damages payouts. Lord Justice Jackson said his original proposal of a 10% uplift on all settlements is still fair, despite claimants having to spend up to 25% of their ...
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How is social media affecting law?
When I worked as a private tutor for two years (to ease the financial burden of law school) I used to explain to parents that whilst children must spend lots of time reading, talking, and thinking, they must spend as much time again on the computer.
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Society seeks civil litigation compromise
The Law Society has joined forces with two claimant lawyer groups to offer a compromise on civil litigation reforms. The Society, which has campaigned against the government’s changes, has agreed new proposals with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Motor Accident Solicitors Association ...
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Law Society warns on skilled migration curbs
Further restrictions on businesses bringing non-EU skilled migrant workers into the UK could stall recovery when economic conditions improve, the Law Society has warned. Law firms need maximum flexibility to be able to recruit quickly when the need arises, it said. The Society said it agreed ...
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Time for the silk cut?
Since the Queen's Counsel selection panel replaced the more secretive machinations of the Lord Chancellor for the appointment of silks, only 11 of the 714 who have received the accolade have been solicitors.
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Lost in translation
Perhaps Crispin Blunt MP spent the first two weeks of February on holiday on the moon. Maybe the justice minister was too busy perfecting that unnerving stare that gives him the air of a Stalinist henchman who’s been giving the task of breaking bad news to ...
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No solicitors make the silk round
Not a single solicitor was among the 88 new Queen's Counsel appointments announced today. Of the 214 applicants, only two came from solicitor advocates; neither was successful. Since 2008, six solicitors have been made QC. Last year two out of the five who applied ...
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HSBC hits back at panel criticism
Banking giant HSBC has denied that its conveyancing panel is closed to new firms following criticism from lawyers. In a prepared statement, the bank today rebutted the Law Society’s claim it had gone back on a promise to offer an appeals process to firms denied entry ...
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Six firms would make FTSE100, says survey
Six of the top 10 UK law firms are large enough to be included in the FTSE100 index of blue chip companies if they were stock-exchange listed, according to a new study. Corporate advisory firm Europa Partners said value-per-equity partner in the biggest four firms now ...
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Chinese giant to open office in London
Leading Chinese firm Zhong Lun will open its first London office in May, the firm has announced. A team of five solicitors and nine legal professionals will move into the Square Mile after the move was formally approved at a meeting of the firm’s partners last ...
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Sale reports ‘speculation’ says College of Law
The College of Law today dismissed as 'speculation' newspaper reports of its imminent sale to a private equity firm. According to The Sunday Times, the UK’s largest law school has accepted a £200m offer from Montagu Private Equity. News of a sale had been long ...
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A coming struggle on partnership with foreign lawyers
The International Bar Association (IBA) is currently consulting its member organisations around the world on a resolution which recommends a liberal regime for professional rules on partnership - or what it calls association - between local lawyers and foreign lawyers. This topic is always sensitive, because its promotion can look ...
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Hope for rule of law in Malawi
I’d hoped that things might get better in Malawi when its diminutive, top-hat wearing, fly-whisk toting life president left the political stage in 1994. But I was wrong - in the second decade of the 21st century, the central African state still seems set on turning its back on the ...
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SRA sets ‘final deadline’
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has added two extra days to the time allowed for renewing practising certificates - but stated this will be the last extension. The renewals process, due to finish the end of this month, will now close at 5pm on 2 March. The ...
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Interpreter problems ‘unacceptable’ says ministry
The Ministry of Justice has criticised the ‘unacceptable’ number of problems in the first weeks of a controversial new contract to run court interpreting services. It has emerged this week that a trial hearing at Leeds Crown Court had to be called off because no one ...
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Freshfields’ £10k bursary for underprivileged students
A magic circle firm is to offer students from less privileged backgrounds an annual bursary of £10,000 to finance their law degree studies. The scheme, which follows coalition social mobility adviser Alan Milburn’s calls for higher education to take greater account of candidates’ social backgrounds, will ...
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Over 50 law firms join breast implant action
A group action on behalf of the estimated 40,000 UK women who received cosmetic breast implants made by a now-defunct French company has signed up more than 50 law firms, in what could be the final group action of its kind. One of the lawyers ...
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Looking again at the rules
It is embarrassing how far, despite all your efforts to suppress them, your teenage obsessions come back to haunt you. Not a problem if your adolescent self showed any semblance of cool. But nerdy classicist is not exactly the image I want to cultivate.
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Time to get along
Obiter approached the APIL president's lunch with the trepidation of Back to the Future's Doc Brown fearing Marty McFly would meet his future self. Surely the universe would implode if the invited guests - including APIL and its nemeses, FOIL and the ABI ...