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EU announces measures for recovery of cross-border debts
The European Union has announced a new initiative to recover the estimated £48bn of debt that is written off every year because of the difficulty of bringing lawsuits overseas. Some 60% of cross-border debts cannot be recovered because, as the law stands, enforcement measures such as ...
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Reflections on the launch of the European Law Institute
The European Law Institute is ready for launch. I have written before about the struggle to establish it. The Inaugural Congress will now be held in Paris on 1 June. Its aims are to be: ‘an ...
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Rightmove founder enters conveyancing market
The founder of Rightmove has today launched online residential conveyancing service In-deed, intended to shake-up the conveyancing market. Harry Hill, the founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of estate agency Countrywide, said the service would make the home sale process simpler, more transparent and ...
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NHS ‘failing to learn lessons’ of litigation claims
The medical profession is failing to learn lessons from costly litigation claims, according to a leading clinical negligence lawyer. Writing in the latest issue of Clinical Risk, Irwin Mitchell partner Ian Christian says information from legal actions is not filtering back through the NHS. ...
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Conveyancing firms must change to compete, solicitors warned
Residential conveyancing firms must change their business models to withstand the threat posed by new entrants to the legal market place, delegates at the Law Society’s annual property section conference heard last week. The Society’s chief executive Des Hudson said the introduction of alternative business structures, ...
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Neuberger sets out injunctions review
The UK’s leading judges have warned MPs not to abuse their parliamentary privilege to break the privacy achieved by injunctions. Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, appeared before the media this morning to set out a review of injunctions. The report ...
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Why lawyers say yes to work experience students
In common with many firms, there are times in the year where we have work shadowers, or interns if you are really posh. Whatever you call them they write in or email begging for a position. The summer is the same if not more busy. ...
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QualitySolicitors: watch our exclusive interview with Craig Holt
Brands will dominate the legal market when alternative business structures are introduced this October – and firms that have not joined a network such as QualitySolicitors or do not do work for larger brands will find the market ‘very small indeed’. So argues a bullish Craig ...
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Legal executives should be on ‘equal footing’ to solicitors, claims ILEX
Legal executives should be able to provide the full breadth of services ‘on an equal footing’ to solicitors, the president of the Institute of Legal Executives said yesterday. David McGrady said securing further rights for ILEX members remains the goal of the professional body. ...
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Injunction case is reminder that partners have employment rights
A High Court ruling in Clyde & Co v Van Winkelhof, reported on 22 March, has highlighted how, even though a member of an LLP or partner may not be an employee, they can still avail themselves of rights traditionally regarded as employment rights. Most ...
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Bar Standards Board reviews barristers’ CPD requirements
The Bar Standards Board has announced a review of the continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for barristers. The biggest proposed change would see an increase in the number of CPD hours that members of the bar are required to do each year, doubling it from 12 to 24. A more ...
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Legal aid award finalists announced
The Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group has announced the finalists for its Lawyer of the Year 2011. They include Razi Shah, solicitor at Windsor firm Appleby Shaw, who successfully appealed against the custodial sentence given to Munir Hussain. Hussain had been convicted ...
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Telecommunications
Dispute resolution - Jurisdiction - Mobile telephony - Telephone charges British Telecommunications Plc (appellant) v Office of Communications (respondent) & (1) Everything Everywhere Ltd (2) Hutchison 3g UK Ltd (interveners): British Telecommunications Plc (appellant) v Office of Communications (respondent) ...
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That’s religious progress
In her article about ‘Christian persecution’, Andrea Minichiello Williams writes that, for hundreds of years, ‘most of the great advances in public life, in health care, education and social provision, came as a result of Christian conviction that cares for the good of all’. If ...
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Max Mosley, the media and UK privacy laws
What better evening to launch the second edition of Tugendhat and Christie’s The Law of Privacy and the Media than the day on which the European Court of Human Rights handed down its hotly anticipated decision in Mosley v the United Kingdom? On 10 May, ...
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Intellectual Property
Broadcasters - Costs capping orders - Deception - Unfair advantage - Trainee solicitors (1) A&E Television Networks LLC (2) AETN UK v Discovery ...
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Ian Tomlinson inquest proves we have moved forwards
Thirty years ago, I was the researcher for an independent inquiry into the death of Blair Peach. It was run by a bright young secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt. The case of Ian Tomlinson brought ...
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Pointing the finger at ideologies
In ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’ (28 April), Andrea Minichiello Williams makes the statement, ‘law cannot be divorced from Christianity’, while criticising totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism.
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Public sector equality duty
If you want a sombre take on equality then seventeenth-century poet James Shirley is your man. For he reminds us that we all share a certain mortal destiny. And since death will eventually lay ‘his icy hand on kings’ so ‘Sceptre and crown/Must tumble down/And ...