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Criminal justice system failing mentally ill
Some 90% of prisoners in England and Wales suffer from mental health problems and upon release are up to 36 times more likely to kill themselves than the general population, a report has revealed. The report says that opportunities to divert the mentally ill away from ...
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‘Irreversible’ cuts
I am disturbed at the relative silence that prevails, when we are facing unprecedented cuts in legal aid and access to lawyers for many vulnerable people. On top of the 10% cut announced for family work from 3 October, we are entering a bid round that will lead to a ...
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Dishonesty, statements of truth, and Jackson
It is a strange world. The perception was, and remains, that legal costs in fast-track road traffic claims are disproportionate to damages. The solution was to ask a senior judge, Lord Justice Jackson, with minimal practical experience of personal injury litigation, to review and report. ...
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Employment
European Union - Employment - Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age Prigge and others v Deutsche Lufthansa AG: Court of Justice of the European Union (Grand Chamber) (Judges Skouris (President), Tizzano, Cunha Rodrigues, Lenaerts, Bonichot, Schiemann, Svaby ...
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Extra land in registered plan
I wonder if anyone has an answer to what seems to be a perverse finding of the Agricultural Land Tribunal (ever heard of it?). I had a classic 'Rylands and Fletcher' situation where adjoining land owned by a farming partnership flooded because of a failed drain. ...
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Mansfield takes a stand on tuition fees
If elected chancellor of Cambridge University next week, human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield QC (pictured, centre) plans to adopt a vigorously interventionist approach to the role. Mansfield told the Gazette that government policy on admission fees ‘disregards our international [convention] obligations’ as well as ...
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Law firm to trade on stock market
A law firm specialising in advising business startups has today announced its intention to list on a stock market. Oxfordshire-based Everyman Legal will apply to become an alternative business structure in early 2012 and seek admission to the market in the final quarter of next year. ...
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Government proposals for openness in healthcare ignore the lessons of the past
I was interested to read Paul Sankey on proposals to introduce a duty of candour as part of the health reforms. There is nothing new in this, as those familiar with the inquiry into the management of care of children receiving complex heart surgery at ...
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Not so grim up north… yet
As legal aid lawyers in England and Wales resign themselves to yet more fee cuts, they will be heartened to learn that their brothers and sisters in law north of the border saw some of their fees actually rise last year. The annual report of the Scottish Legal Aid Board ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Right to respect for private and family life AJ v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Pill, Etherton, Sir Mark Potter): 21 September 2011 ...
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The politics of judicial independence
Did magistrates and judges help bring an end to the riots that ravaged English city centres in August? I suspect the prime minister’s decision to put additional police on the streets made more of an impact, but it seems reasonable to suppose that some unexpectedly tough sentences, reviewed by the ...
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Intellectual property
European Union - Trademarks - Registration Chalk v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM): General Court of the European Union (First Chamber) (Judges Azizi (Rapporteur), President, Cremona and Frimodt Nielsen): 9 September 2011 ...
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Intellectual property
European Union - Trademarks - Registration Deutsche Bahn AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM): General Court of the European Union (First Chamber) (Judges Azizi, President, Cremona, and Frimodt Nielsen (Rapporteur)): 9 ...
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When less is more
I am told that the new SRA Handbook is over 500 pages. To quote from the Solicitors Handbook 2011 (p32): ‘The introduction of OFR will give a simplified rulebook and freedom to practise innovatively.’ My Law Society looseleaf quotes that The Professional Conduct of Solicitors from 1986, including all the ...
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Words lose value
I refer to the letter from Samantha Barrass. How much time and money has been spent coming up with the idea of changing ‘this firm is regulated by…’ to ‘authorised and regulated by…’? I cannot see how all this ‘consultation’ and ‘regulation’ assists solicitors or the ...