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Concessions expected in legal aid bill due next month
The bill to implement the government’s legal aid reforms is to be published next month, and is likely to contain some key concessions, the Gazette has been told. Sources within Parliament have indicated that the rules for funding in private family cases, where there is an ...
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Onside Law advises on Ryder Cup
Sport specialist firm Onside Law has taken a major role in the destination of one of golf’s biggest tournaments. The firm advised on all aspects of the bid process to host the 2018 Ryder Cup, with a decision expected to be announced tomorrow. ...
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Law firms and disreputable private investigators
The legal profession is probably the most prolific source of work for private investigators, or enquiry agents, as they are more commonly known in the profession. But have you ever stopped to ask to ask yourself 'Who really is the enquiry agent that I ...
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Hogan Lovells facilitates deal to save fashion group
City firm Hogan Lovells has helped to facilitate a deal to save fashion chain All Saints and secure hundreds of jobs. The firm has advised Lloyds TSB on its ongoing financing of the company, which was this week bought by private equity investors Lion Capital and ...
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Where is the evidence of a need for employment law changes?
Those nice folk who gave us the ‘bonfire of the quangos’, not to mention swingeing cuts to legal aid, social care and arts funding, are now turning their gimlet eyes to employment law. The coalition government announced on Tuesday that there is to be a ‘review ...
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Families bereaved through crime face £37,000 costs
Families bereaved through serious criminal acts face average costs of £37,000 in the wake of their loss, according to figures released this week. The commissioner for victims and witnesses, Louise Casey, published the results of a survey of 36 families who had been bereaved through murder, ...
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Parent residence orders and relocation
One of the most difficult decisions a family judge can be called on to make is whether to grant permission to a parent with a residence order to relocate outside the jurisdiction of England and Wales. Cheap air travel, emails, mobile phones, Facebook and Skype ...
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SRA urges solicitors to report rivals' malpractice
Solicitors are being urged to ring in and report any rival local firms they suspect of wrongdoing. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said doomed business plans drawn up by rogue firms are taking millions of pounds from the compensation fund, and ruining the reputation of the legal ...
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Targeting the judiciary
I was sorry to read of the recent death of the delightful judge Ann Goddard (pictured), writes ...
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Insolvency
Jurisdiction - Liquidation - Remuneration On the matter of Eurodis Electron Plc (in administration): in the matter of Eurodis Electronics Plc (in administration): in the matter of Eurodis Electronics UK Ltd (in administration): in the matter of Eurodis Electron ...
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Personal injury
Asbestos - Duty of care - Proximity David Brian Chandler v Cape Plc: QBD (Mr Justice Wyn Williams): 14 April 2011 The court was required to determine whether a duty ...
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Hanger Sanger
When Obiter first saw this photograph of Simon Sanger-Anderson, partner at Exeter firm Tozers, he naturally assumed that the firm’s lift must have been running slow and the impatient solicitor had decided not to waste another six-minute billing unit waiting for it. But it turns ...
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No go logo?
Given the rate at which the government has been slashing the legal aid budget, one could be forgiven for thinking that there are no law firms left out there offering a legal aid service. And indeed, that assumption is precisely what the Legal Action Group ...
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If Question Time can give prisoners a voice, should government too?
You can picture the scene inside the BBC’s creative team meeting. ‘How can we boost the figures for Question Time next week?’ asks a producer, as he munches on a humus and taramasalata pitta on a bed of Guardian pullout pages. ‘Nick ...
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Profits rebound as legal firms slash overheads
Law firms are slowly rebuilding profitability and beginning to hire again, according to a respected annual bellwether of the sector’s financial health. Support staff numbers remain under pressure, however, and practices are bearing down heavily on non-salary overheads to boost the bottom line. ...
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Running in the family
Law Society president Linda Lee had the unusual pleasure this week of witnessing her own daughter, Gabrielle Maria Lee, admitted to the solicitors’ roll. While it is not often that a sitting president sees their own offspring admitted, it is not unprecedented, with former president ...
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News focus: sole practitioners face 'perfect storm'
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the sole practitioner appear greatly exaggerated. Despite their near-universal hostility to alternative business structures, delegates at last weekend’s SPG conference in Harrogate were surprisingly upbeat about the ‘perfect storm’ they must weather. ...
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Professional negligence litigation rise down to the unscrupulous few
Economically speaking, the law is generally thought to be a counter-cyclical profession. An increase in litigation is usually a side-effect of recession. Often, this litigation is against professionals, an obvious example being the glut of cases during the 1990s against ...
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Coventry firm launches employment subscription scheme
A law firm has launched a subscription scheme to protect companies against the potentially ‘catastrophic’ costs arising from employment disputes. Coventry firm Band Hatton’s ‘Employment Protection Scheme’ (EPS) charges a set annual fee, which can be paid monthly to provide client businesses of all sizes with ...