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As a profession we are falling for the false perception that solicitors are inaccessible
The letter from Viv Williams of the 360 Legal Group (22 September) repeats the assumption that legal services need to be more accessible and friendly 'and that firms failing to adapt will get left behind'. I run a very small high street firm. We obtain constant ...
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Indemnity insurance renewal ‘less frantic’
Solicitors are reporting a less turbulent renewal round for professional indemnity insurance this year as the deadline approaches, although prices have risen steeply for some mid-sized firms. Hilary Underwood, chairwoman of the Sole Practitioners Group, said there have yet to be any complaints from members ...
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IFA independence
The Financial Services Authority is in the process of adopting a new definition of independent financial advice. It has written to all of the designated professional bodies (DPBs), including the Solicitors Regulation Authority, inviting them to adopt different definitions for their own purposes if they consider this to be appropriate.
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Internet policing is ‘inevitable’
State-imposed control of the internet is ‘inevitable’ if the conflict between the right to privacy and a free press is ever to be resolved, lawyers and journalists suggested last week at a Law Society public debate. They also warned that the current press regulator is toothless ...
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Intellectual Property
Trademarks - Community trademark Meredith Corp v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM): General Court of the European Union (Fourth Chamber) (Judges Pelikanova (President), Jurimae (Rapporteur) and Van der Woude): 7 September 2011 ...
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Intellectual Property
Trademarks - 'Likelihood of confusion' Omnicare Inc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs): General Court of the European Union (First Chamber) (Judges Azizi (President), Cremona and Frimodt Nielsen (Rapporteur)): 9 September 2011 ...
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Judicial review
Availability of remedy - Challenge to validity of public authority's decision R (on the application of B) v Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (Lord Justice Munby and Mr Justice Beatson): 16 September 2011 ...
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Pots and kettles
I read Guy Platt-Higgins' comments about referral fees with interest (see [2011] Gazette, 22 September, 13). I should set out my stall. I am absolutely opposed to referral fees as I consider them incompatible with a profession that holds itself out as adhering to the highest ethical standards.
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, 23 September 1981 Navy Nicknames I do not know how it may be nowadays, but when I was in the Navy there were a certain number of standard nicknames. A particular surname carried a nickname as a matter of ...
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Lawyers must take the lead in reshaping our values
I like to think that, if you examine a section of society, you can deduce problems and solutions which apply more widely. So, in this year of impending financial collapse and of governments which are paralysed or uncertain, I shall look at current developments relating to lawyers across Europe, and ...
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What makes a reliable survey or piece of research?
Research studies and surveys of the legal sector have been a feature of business life for some time now - and any number can be expected in the run-up to, and beyond, the liberalisation of the legal services market. But can you trust the results of the surveys you read? ...
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Rioters and the quality of mercy
The spirit of forgiveness is abroad this September - but will it shine its light on the rioters who are appealing their ‘excessive’ sentences in the Court of Appeal? The spirit has already spun its benign magic on two crooks, letting them out of jail early, even though they had ...
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Running the show
The Olympic Games are racing ever closer and first over the line for the legal profession is former schoolboy sprint hurdles record holder, Paul Trincas. Now a partner at Newbury firm Charles Lucas & Marshall, Trincas is to be one of 200 officials helping ensure ...
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Sentencing
Deferment of sentence - Exercise of power of deferment - Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm Attorney General's Reference (No 62 of 2011); R v Johnson: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mrs Justice ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Robbery Attorney General's Reference (Nos 48 and 49 of 2011); R v Stokes and another The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division held, as unduly ...
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Sentencing
Custodial sentence - Young offenders - Detention and Training order R v T: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: 16 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, held that ...