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Guildford lawyer launches conveyancing tool
A Guildford solicitor has helped develop a new online tool to streamline conveyancing, enabling the mortgage lenders’ compliance process to be completed in ‘five minutes’. Julian Sampson, a partner at Wright & Wright, created the ‘Jet’ programme with Alan Dring, the former director of online conveyancing ...
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Code of conduct for litigation funders moves closer
The Civil Justice Council is expected to agree a new code of conduct for third-party funders of litigation by the end of the year, to be combined with the launch of a new association of litigation funders. Compliance with the new voluntary code will be monitored ...
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Developments on the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights
This story does not have Rebekah Brooks in it, nor details of high-wire acts to save the dollar and the euro. There are no wars or celebrities in sight. In other words, it is perfect summer reading.
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ITV clarifies Holden’s comments on QS
ITV’s This Morning has today clarified comments which were made by Amanda Holden in relation to QualitySolicitors. Following representations from the Law Society, QualitySolicitors agreed to ask the show to correct some comments made by the television presenter when she appeared as a guest of the ...
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Mystery shopping should be used as a carrot not a stick
I was not surprised to read that the results of the Legal Services Consumer Panel’s mystery-shopping investigation into wills indicating varying quality among qualified and unqualified providers. Sadly, it seems the good-quality samples do not generate the same media coverage as those below standard – as is best practice in ...
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SPs eligible to become Judicial Appointments Commissioners
Sole practitioners are eligible to apply for a position as a Judicial Appointments Commissioner, the recruitment agency acting for the Ministry of Justice has confirmed, despite confusion over the wording of the job specification. The specification for the role states that candidates seeking to become a ...
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Quality solicitors for all
Having followed the QualitySolicitors debate in the Gazette you may feel we have been in a type of ‘phoney war’ for the past couple of years. Now the battle for the domestic and SME legal services sectors has started with the launch of QS’s Legal Access Points in WHSmiths around ...
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Wotton stresses ‘opportunity’ presented by ABSs
Law Society president John Wotton will today spell out his belief that alternative business structures can present a significant opportunity for the legal sector.
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Trust and trustee
Maintenance - Maintenance of children Green and another v Hon E Alexander and others: Chancery Division: 19 July 2011 The Chancery Division of the High Court decided that the claimant ...
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Sentencing
Sexual offences - principles of sentencing R v Smith and others: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: 19 July 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, gave consideration to four cases ...
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Miss-taken vocation
The solicitors’ profession could have a glamorous new entrant in a few years, after law student Rissikat Bade (pictured), the current Miss London, revealed that she plans to become a lawyer. Bade just missed out on the Miss England title last month, in what she ...
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Landlord and tenant
Recovery of possession - Tenant's insolvency Sharples and another v Places for People Homes Ltd: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Mummery, Etherton, Mr Justice Wilson): 15 July 2011 ...
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Insolvency
Administration order - Administrator - Appointment of administrator Stanley International Betting Ltd v Stanleybet UK Investments Ltd and Others: Chancery Division: 12 July 2011Stanley International Betting Ltd v Stanleybet UK Investments Ltd and Others: Chancery Division (Stuart Isaacs QC ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal Rahman v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division: 15 July 2011 The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that ...
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Phone idle
Legal aid lawyers stuck in the Legal Services Commission’s payments system will be delighted to learn that, to free up staff time to deal with the backlog, the quango is reducing the hours it will operate the helpline that deals with queries. Solicitors owed money ...
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Sentencing guidelines
The first series of new-style guidelines has taken effect for all sentences imposed on or after 13 June 2011, whatever the date of the offence. The guidelines apply to offences under: ...