All News articles – Page 1529
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Family law
Contact orders - Enforcement - Parental contact - Residence orders Re H (A Child): CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Thorpe, Tomlinson): 7 April 2011 The appellant mother (M) appealed against ...
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Irwin Mitchell to seek external investment
National firm Irwin Mitchell has become one of the first law firms to give notice that it will seek external investment as it embraces the opportunities presented by the Legal Services Act. The firm, which has nine offices in the UK, will seek external investment ...
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Employment
Discrimination - Compensatory awards - Maternity leave - Polkey reductions Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v J De Belin: EAT (Mr Justice Underhill (president), B Beynon, T Haywood): 6 April 2011 ...
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Witnesses and directed surveillance
In his letter, Jon Mack may have misunderstood Ibrahim Hasan’s article of 10 March on directed surveillance. The focus of the piece was changes in the law now proposed, namely judicial approval, which is already the subject of the Protection of Freedoms Bill and the ...
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Doctors know how to cure oversupply
I write in response to Gemma Bond’s letter. Considering the struggling economy, legal aid cuts (particularly the Legal Services Commission’s training grant scheme), and concerns in relation to alternative business structures and changes to civil costs, the drop in training contracts is no surprise. ...
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Solicitors can help CPS get rape retraction prosecutions right
by Keir Starmer, director of public prosecutions A woman makes a rape allegation against a man, and then later retracts it.
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Royal Courts of Justice were 'incompetent'
I noted with interest the Obiteritem reporting the Family Justice Review Panel’s comment that the family justice system is in fact ‘not a system at all’ (see [2011] Gazette, 7 April, 35). Last week, my husband, two-year-old daughter and I were ordered to attend the Royal ...
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Court hearings should not be private, says Lord Neuberger
Court proceedings should be in public and freely reported, and any restrictions should be kept to the minimum necessary to enable justice to be done, the Court of Appeal said last week. Refusing to allow a case to be heard in private, the master of the ...
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County courts system failure
The complaints of Graeme Hydari regarding the state of the criminal courts in which he practises are reflected in the state of certain county courts, and in particular the Central London County Court.
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News focus: council lawyers face up to government cuts
Local government solicitors at last weekend’s three-day training event in Exeter were in a curiously upbeat mood for a group facing ‘salami-slicing’ cuts of 10% or more to their legal departments’ headcounts.
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Company law
Equitable charges - Pledges - Security - Shareholders Enviroco Ltd v Farstad Supply A/S: SC (Lords Hope (deputy president), Rodger, Mance, Collins, Clarke): 6 April 2011 The appellant Scottish company ...
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SRA publishes strategy for combating conveyancing fraud
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published a draft supervision and enforcement strategy, setting out how it plans to work with conveyancing firms to combat fraud and money laundering. The strategy forms part of a package of measures designed to address problems in this ...
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Government has cocked a deaf ear to the 'claimant lobby'
They did a U-turn on selling off the forests; they called a temporary halt to the root-and-branch restructuring of the National Health Service. Might the coalition be prevailed upon to reappraise its proposals for the reform of civil litigation costs, even at this late stage?
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Civil procedure
Intellectual property - Cross-undertakings - Ex turpi causa - Illegality (1) Les Laboratoires Servier (2) Servier Laboratories Ltd v (1) Apotex Inc (2) Apotex Pharmachem Inc (3) Apotex Europe Ltd (4) Apotex UK Ltd: Ch D (Patents Ct) (Mr ...
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Changing legal specialism
For some it is redundancy. For others the hallowed path towards partnership appears strewn with potholes. It may simply be a question of lifestyle. Whatever the motive, many lawyers are reshaping their careers, either by switching specialism, leaving private practice ...
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Still time to build on splendid idea of setting up solicitors' building society
I saw the letter from Edwin Lee, reminding us of that splendid idea of setting up a solicitors’ building society. It was a good idea in 1984 and it is still a good idea. The loss of so many building societies ...
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City lawyers warn over EU boardroom plans
EU proposals to improve diversity in the boardroom and ensure transparency around a company’s ‘risk appetite’ depart from current UK thinking, City lawyers have warned. A consultation on a framework for EU corporate governance published earlier this month asked whether more non-nationals should be represented on ...
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Basis of ban on courtroom photographs is outdated in modern world
Lord Neuberger is bidding to become the thinking lawyer’s judge, a worthy successor to the late and lamented Lord Bingham. He is proceeding through lectures at a canter: the Robert Alexander memorial lecture this month, the Judicial Studies Board last. ...
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Solicitors Regulation Authority launches review of CPD rules
The Solicitors Regulation Authority will today launch the first review of solicitors’ continuing professional development obligations for more than 25 years, to create a new scheme designed to improve solicitors’ competence and ethical conduct. The review will form part of important changes to education and training ...
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Naked attempt to slash debt
In response to a letter from my MP concerning the proposed legal aid cuts, I received a reply from justice minister Jonathan Djanogly. This stated: ‘The government wants to discourage people from resorting to lawyers whenever they face a problem...’ This ...