All News articles – Page 1483
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Immigration
Leave to enter – Entry clearance – Spouses of British nationals – Claimant foreign nationals married to British nationals R (on the application of Kotecha) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (on the application Das) v ...
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Hive talking
Staff at City firms Olswang and Mishcon de Reya will have noticed a buzz in the air this week, after their central London offices took delivery of beehives and several thousand bees. The firms are taking part in a pilot scheme testing the impact of ...
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High-flying lawyers
This Saturday, a team of 19 daredevil claimant lawyers from north London firms Bolt Burdon Kemp and Bolt Burdon will be jumping out of an aeroplane in a skydive event in aid of charity Headway, which supports those affected by brain injury. To donate visit ...
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Put something in place of Solicitors from Hell
I write in response to your story ‘Society sends letter of claim to Solicitors from Hell owner’.
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Will national franchises be the future for high street firms?
As law firms edge ever closer to the time when they will lose their monopoly on the provision of legal services, they are finally putting their heads above the parapet and revealing their survival strategies. Up to now many have been reluctant to show their hands, ...
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‘Self-employed’ solicitor sues law firm
A solicitor who unlawfully worked full-time for a law firm on a self-employed basis is entitled to the same legal protections as a salaried employee, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled. The ruling overturned an earlier employment tribunal (ET) judgment that, because the contract between ...
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Rioters given tough sentences, MoJ figures show
The Ministry of Justice has today released statistics on the outcomes of suspects involved in the recent riots, showing that a much higher percentage of defendants were remanded in custody than usual. The figures show that 1,566 suspects have had initial hearings at magistrates’ courts. ...
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Employment
Contract of service - Breach of contract - Inducing breach of contract BGC Capital Markets (Switzerland) LLC v Rees and others: Queen's Bench Division (Sir Raymond Jack sitting as a judge of the High Court): 27 July 2011 ...
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Expert witnesses elusive as pay falls
Reduced legal aid fees for expert witnesses are making it ‘almost impossible’ to find experts and in some cases leaving law firms out of pocket by thousands of pounds, a leading family lawyer has warned. Christina Blacklaws, Law Society Council member for child care, said the ...
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TV Edwards reveals two new mergers
London firm TV Edwards has announced mergers with two other London firms, further consolidating its position as one of the capital’s largest legal aid firms. Today the firm completes a merger with Hammersmith firm Mark & Co, which has a reputation for serious criminal law work. ...
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False economy
As a life-long family practitioner, I cannot praise District Judge Glover’s comments highly enough. Politically correct or not, he has hit the nail squarely on the head.
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Law Society to hold superinjunction debate
A Law Society debate will this month consider how superinjunctions can survive in an era of social media. The free discussion, entitled Privacy, Free Press and the Public Interest, will look at how anonymity orders can be enforced when information is so readily available through sites ...
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Irrelevant data
I agree with the comments of Messrs Cohen and Emmerson regarding the Legal Services Board and the Equality Act. The Legal Services Board is straying into politics and its analysis is wrong. The major barrier to becoming a lawyer is financial deprivation rather than sex or ethnicity.
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Foreign currency
Interest - Court ordering award to claimant in US dollars - Judgments Act 1838 Standard Chartered Bank v Ceylon Petroleum Corporation: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Hamblen): 1 August 2011 Pursuant ...
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Dire warning on courts
District Judge Peter Glover’s article should be required reading for Kenneth Clarke, Jonathan Djanogly, David Cameron and indeed all MPs. It should also be copied to every member of the Family Justice Review.