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UK opens route for exceptionally talented migrants
On 20 July the government announced requirements and application procedures for the recently introduced tier 1 (exceptional talent) route under the points-based system. These are part of recent reforms to reduce net migration into the UK and to tackle abuse, while at the same time encouraging the best and the ...
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A pointless exercise in self-justification
Your news item ‘Compulsory diversity data' goes some way to explaining why lawyers have become so disenchanted with the ever increasing regulatory bureaucracy.
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Expert witnesses
In parallel with the current debate about whether the law of privacy should be developed by the courts or by parliament, seven justices of the Supreme Court have been divided on a similar issue relating to the creation of an exception to the general rule that grants immunity from suit ...
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Sun exposure
Every office has one. The dedicated, workaholic employee who is so committed to their duties that they refuse to join their more carefree colleagues in abandoning their desks, boarding a flight to warmer climes and spending two weeks lying on a beach towel with their nose in a crime thriller. ...
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News focus: Fast-track justice and the riots
Lawyers have recounted extraordinary scenes both of chaos and professional dedication over the past 10 days, as defence solicitors, prosecutors, magistrates and court staff worked through the night to deal with the unprecedented number of people arrested in the wake of last week’s riots across England. ...
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Sale of goods
Rejection of goods - Right to reject - Parties using terms and conditions from GAFTA 119 RG Grain Trade LLP (UK) v Feed Factors International Ltd: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Hamblen): 20 July 2011 ...
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Many lawyers remain ignorant of what MEPs do
by Timothy Kirkhope MEP, (Yorkshire and the Humber) There are several areas of importance to solicitors in England and Wales arising out of the work of the European parliament; in particular, upcoming issues from the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, on which I ...
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Immigration
Deportation - Bail - National Security R (on the application of BB) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission: Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court (Sir Anthony May, Mr Justice Maddison): 2 August 2011 ...
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Partnership
Dissolution - Effect - Partnership property - Partnership Act 1890 Boghani v Nathoo: ChD (Sir Andrew Morritt): 2 August 2011 The parties carried on the business of hotel development as ...
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Portal progress
While discussions about the concept of splitting the costs of using the RTA portal are ongoing, the notion that any decision has been made is premature. The key concern is how independence in decision-making in the portal can be ensured and all options in relation ...
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Subrogation
Circumstances in which doctrine applicable - Loan used to pay off existing debt to third party Ibrahim and Barclays Bank plc and another: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Vos): 21 July 2011 ...
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Telecommunications
Mobile telephone networks - Claimants entering into agreements for use of sites by mobile phone network operators Arqiva Ltd and other companies v Everything Everywhere Ltd and other companies: QBD (TCC) (Mr Justice Ramsey): 26 July 2011 ...
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Halliwells’ administration - nice work if you can get it
When I grow up I want to be an insolvency practitioner. That was my rather facetious thought upon reading BDO’s latest administrators’ report on the collapse of Halliwells. Nothing to do with the defunct firm’s travails as such – though since RBS is down over £15m it looks like taxpayers ...
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LeO goes to court to enforce decisions against law firms
The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) has resorted to court action for the first time to enforce a decision against a firm of solicitors. Only after the action was launched did the firm pay out £2,650 in compensation to a client, as the ombudsman had ordered, plus interest. ...
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Advocacy assurance scheme is ‘bar-centric’, solicitor claims
A significant number of solicitor advocates will not qualify for higher rights advocacy under a proposed ‘bar-centric’ Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA), the chair of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA) has claimed. SAHCA chairman Jo Cooper said that advocacy regulator the Joint ...
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Society sends letter of claim to Solicitors from Hell owner
The Law Society sent a letter of claim to the owner of the Solicitors from Hell website last week, as it prepared to launch a class action against him on behalf of the profession. The letter demands that website owner Rick Kordowski must close the site, ...