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Four firms secure half of PII market, says SRA
Four insurance firms secured more than half the market share of professional indemnity insurance in 2011, according to figures released by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. More than 18% of law firms took out initial PII with XL Insurance, the leader in the market, for 2011/12. ...
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Is gaining the formal qualification of an MBA time and money well spent?
Ask those with MBA after their name what it was like combining high-level studying with a full-time job and they don’t pull any punches - ‘horrendous’, ‘hellish’, ‘think it will be hard and then multiply that 100 times’. But ask are they glad they did it, and the answer is ...
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Immigration
Asylum seeker - Asylum support - Claimant's asylum application and appeal being refused R (on the application of VC and others) v Newcastle City Council; R (on the application of K) v Newcastle City Council: Queen's Bench Division, Divisional ...
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Welsh separation of legal powers ‘inevitable’
Further separation of legal powers between Wales and England is inevitable, leading Welsh academics have told the Gazette, as the Welsh Assembly prepares to launch a year-long consultation on creating a separate legal jurisdiction. They say the devolution process, accelerated by this year’s referendum vote in ...
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Jurisdiction
Practice - Service out of the jurisdiction - Action or contract governed by English law Saad Investments Company Ltd v Al-Sanea: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Walker): 14 October 2011 ...
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Jurisdiction
Claim form - Service - Service out of the jurisdiction SSL International plc and another v TTK LIG Ltd and others: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Mummery, Arden and Stanley Burnton): 19 October 2011 ...
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Jurisdiction
Conflict of laws - Civil and commercial matters Lornamead Acquisitions Ltd v Kaupthing Bank HF: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Gloster): 18 October 2011 The Commercial Court, Queen's ...
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Jurisdiction
Conflict of laws - Challenge to jurisdiction WMS Gaming Inc v B Plus Giocolegale Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Simon): 13 October 2011 Queen's Bench Division (Commercial ...
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Jurisdiction
Court of Appeal - Appeal from Divisional Court - Whether permission to appeal to be granted R (on the application of Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Neuberger (master ...
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Memory lane
Law Society's Gazette, November 1981 Brian’s brief fails to convince Maybe it was the joyous announcement that the future Duke of Cambridge had been conceived, but the Gazette letters page had a light-hearted edge throughout the month. ...
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Secret police?
I have just attended a fine lecture by Professor Peter Camp on the new SRA Handbook. It was a sobering experience. Some of the book’s new elements should give rise to alarm. As we already know, unqualified employees are subject to disciplinary proceedings before the SRA. None of the employees ...
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Trainee redundancies ‘unlawful’
The Law Society is investigating claims that trainee solicitors whose contracts are terminated are being made redundant unlawfully. David Taylor, a partner at London firm Hanne & Co, said the number of redundant trainees seeking advice has risen this year for the first time since 2008. ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Violent disorder - Defendant involved in student protests over tuition fees R v Gilmour: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Cranston, Mr Justice Hickinbottom): 28 October 2011 ...
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Inheritance tax and expenditure out of normal income
For many, inheritance tax (IHT) planning involves using the annual exemption of £3,000 per annum and making gifts with the hope that they will meet the required seven-year period for exemption to apply.
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Plans to boost London-based firms abroad
New proposals to ‘cut through the regulatory maze’ inhibiting London-based international law firms and help them develop more unified global businesses have been published. The Solicitors Regulation Authority wants to give big cross-border practices more flexibility to operate in any form allowed in other countries, and also to incentivise foreign ...
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Reforms will cut claims against NHS in half
Legal aid cuts and the Jackson reforms will slash the number of claims brought against the NHS by 50%, a senior member of the Civil Justice Council has predicted. Peter Smith, managing director of FirstAssist Legal Expenses Insurance, told Saturday’s Bar Conference that Jackson in particular ...
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Legal aid cuts ‘will undermine pro bono work’
Proposed cuts to legal aid threaten to undermine a decade of pro bono work, the legal profession has warned at the start of the tenth national pro bono week. A Law Society survey in the spring revealed that just under half of solicitors in private practice ...
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Is compliance an opportunity or a threat?
Even before the current outcomes-focused regulations came into force compliance was seen by many as a necessary evil. What firms are going to make of it with the new regulators out in force still remains to be seen. I don’t think that law firms will find ...
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The IBA in Dubai: an unexpected outcome
I was in Dubai last week for the International Bar Association annual conference, where the main topic of conversation was the action of the country’s government in cancelling the conference. The event went ahead after all, following compromises. The resulting discussions could not have been more relevant to the role ...