All News articles – Page 1490
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More form filling
How gratifying that the Legal Services Board has decided that solicitors have so little to do and such a profitable business model that they should spend money, time and effort in keeping records of the diversity of their workforce. At a time when government is ...
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Employment
Practice and procedure - Jurisdiction - Unfair dismissal Kudjodji v Lidl Ltd: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Langstaff): 25 May 2011 The employee brought a claim against the employer for ...
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London firm offers 'divorce insurance'
London law firm Prolegal is to offer ‘divorce insurance’ to clients, in conjunction with a legal expenses insurer. The policy, which will be offered to clients when they make a pre-nuptial agreement, will cover the costs of challenging the pre-nup or adopting it into a ...
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Report highlights dire plight of Syrian lawyers
Human rights lawyers in Syria suffer surveillance and harassment by security officials, and are banned from holding meetings or travelling abroad, according to a report by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). The report said the international community had ‘great concerns’ over the treatment ...
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Spot the difference
The letter from Timothy Simkins is timely, apt and hopefully will focus minds. As an extension to the debate, can anyone differentiate between the payment of referral fees to motor insurance companies and similar payments to estate agents? Gordon ...
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Criminal evidence
Procedure - Disclosure - Aggravated trespass - Whether conviction unsafe R v Barkshire and Others: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Treacy, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith): 20 July 2011 ...
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Criminal law
Trial - Prosecution - Prosecutorial misconduct - Court of Appeal R v Maxwell: Supreme Court (Justices of the Supreme Court: Lords Rodger, Brown, Mance, Collins, Dyson): 20 July 2011 In ...
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Conflict of laws
Jurisdiction - Challenge to jurisdiction Merchant International Company Ltd v Natsionalna Aktsionerna Kompaniya 'Naftogaz Ukrayiny': Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice David Steel): 14 July 2011 The Queen's Bench ...
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No complaints
I was very pleased to read the comments of Dianne Hayter about client complaints in the article 'Hayter: solicitors "in denial"'. She says that if the person running Sainsbury's was told the customers were complaining they would take it very seriously.She is entirely correct. I ...
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Comforting thought
Thank you for Roger Smith’s report on the International Legal Aid Group’s meeting in Helsinki. It is so comforting to see that those of us in England and Wales who are supportive of legal aid here are not totally misguided. Thanks to Roger also for ...
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Claimant solicitors to pay half of RTA portal costs
Claimant solicitors are to fund half of the cost of the Road Traffic Accident Portal, the Gazette has learned, in a move that claimant lawyers believe will give them more say in how the system operates. The portal, which launched last year as an information exchange ...
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CJC to set up working party on civil costs reforms
A working party is being put together by the Civil Justice Council (CJC) to examine the technicalities of civil litigation reform. Experts will attempt to thrash out practical proposals to follow up on measures planned by the government following the review of litigation costs by Lord ...
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Citizenship
United Kingdom citizenship - Deprivation of citizenship - Claimant becoming naturalised British citizen GI v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London): 19 July 2011 ...
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One in three law centres set to shut down
At least a third of law centres will close if government plans to cut legal aid funding go ahead this autumn, solicitors have predicted. The warning came after the UK’s largest not-for-profit social welfare law firm, Law for All, went into administration, weeks after the Immigration ...
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Human rights breakthrough in Mexico
Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that military personnel accused of human rights violations against lawyers and others should be tried in civilian courts instead of military courts, where violations have historically gone unpunished. The ruling follows the publication in March of a Law Society human rights ...
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E-petitions are dangerous and pointless – so why bother with them?
Winston Churchill once claimed that the best argument against democracy was a five-minute conversation with the average voter. One look at the terrifying e-petition website, and the old boy would doubtless have choked on his brandy in horror. What a Pandora’s box ...
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Diversity boss calls for 'inclusive culture' at legal firms
The incoming global head of diversity and inclusion at City giant Herbert Smith has warned that some law firms still need to do much more to create an ‘inclusive culture’. David Shields, a former director at gay rights organisation Stonewall, said some practices were more concerned ...