All News articles – Page 1477
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Dirty laundry
I cannot be the only practising solicitor who finds the various and vastly different money laundering requirements within the financial industry to be utter nonsense. In one particular estate, I am one of three executors. The other two are my senior partner and a long-standing client.
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Doomed to fail
Institutional memory in the Crown Prosecution Service is notoriously short. Many years ago, when I ran a CPS branch, some genius at CPS HQ had the same idea of a paperless office. Two bright young things visited me uttering the dreadful words ‘pilot scheme’. ...
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Employment
Contract of service - Church - Claimant being minister of Methodist church Preston v President of the Methodist Church: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Maurice Kay (vice-president), Longmore and Sir David Keene): 20 December 2011 ...
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Environment
Electricity - Supply - Feed-in tariff R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; R (on the application of Homesun Holdings Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy ...
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Pictures at an exhibition
Obiter likes to dab at a canvas when time allows, and the effect is so much better when one paints from life. From its annual exhibition (showing in the reading room, 113 Chancery Lane to 20 January), it would seem that members of ...
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Young at heart
Obiter was pleased to see that an old friend, Andrew, Lord Phillips of Sudbury to the rest of you, is among the Liberal Democrat peers willing to give the coalition a bloody nose over its legal aid reforms. The former Bates Wells & ...
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Human rights
Prison - Prisoner - Management and treatment of prisoners Grant and another v Ministry of Justice: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Hickinbottom): 19 December 2011 The Queen's Bench Division dismissed ...
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Injunctions
Practice - Pre-trial or post judgment relief - Freezing order Parbulk II AS v PT Humpuss Intermoda Transportasi TBK and other companies: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Gloster): 30 November 2011 ...
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Injunctions
Practice - Appeal - Permission to appeal Hutcheson (formerly known as WER) v Popdog Ltd (formerly known as REW): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lord Justices Etherton and Gross): 19 December 2011 ...
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Injunctions
Practice - Appeal - Permission to appeal Hutcheson (formerly known as WER) v Popdog Ltd (formerly known as REW): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lord Justices Etherton and Gross): 19 December 2011 ...
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In our interests
Franklin Sinclair in the letter ‘Zero Support’ has only himself to blame. There is no purpose in having unprintable feelings or shouting about ‘outrage’ when the solution is in his own hands. The moral is: don’t do work if there is no possibility of payment. You ...
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Does the legal profession need to have minimum trainee rates?
To paraphrase the author John O’Farrell, those in charge of society have always shown imagination in thinking of reasons why relatively poor people should work harder for less. So there is neat symmetry in the SRA’s decision to flag the likely abolition of the minimum trainee salary in the same ...
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Libel and slander
Defamatory words - Words capable of defamatory meaning Dell'Olio v Associated Newspapers Ltd: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Tugendhat): 20 December 2011 The Queen's Bench Division held that the words ...
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Libel and slander
Defamatory words - Words capable of defamatory meaning Rothschild v Associated Newspapers Ltd: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Tugendhat): 21 December 2011 The Queen's Bench Division held that in ...
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Warning over minimum salary move
Junior solicitors have warned of exploitation and reduced access to the profession for the less well-off if regulators decide to ditch the minimum salary for trainees.
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PIN point a solution
I read with interest the letters from Edward Foster and CJA Cope regarding ‘the point’ of mediation. Cope ‘fails to understand how mediation can resolve a dispute which involves interpretation of [an] agreement’.
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Professional service
Geyve Walker claims to inhabit ‘the hard world of commerce’. When I became a solicitor, like Franklin Sinclair, it was into a profession and not a business that I stumbled. A professional person has a number of motivations, two of which are service and compassion. ...
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Right stipes
A London stipe once said to me that, after his appointment, the first five years were learning, the second five were interesting and the remaining 10 were waiting for his pension. Certainly, some of them played with lawyers they knew to keep themselves amused. One said to me when I ...