All News articles – Page 1532
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Landlord and tenant
Recovery of possession - Tenant's insolvency Sharples and another v Places for People Homes Ltd: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Mummery, Etherton, Mr Justice Wilson): 15 July 2011 ...
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Miss-taken vocation
The solicitors’ profession could have a glamorous new entrant in a few years, after law student Rissikat Bade (pictured), the current Miss London, revealed that she plans to become a lawyer. Bade just missed out on the Miss England title last month, in what she ...
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Sentencing
Sexual offences - principles of sentencing R v Smith and others: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: 19 July 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, gave consideration to four cases ...
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Trust and trustee
Maintenance - Maintenance of children Green and another v Hon E Alexander and others: Chancery Division: 19 July 2011 The Chancery Division of the High Court decided that the claimant ...
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Ministers are deaf to reason on legal aid
Time and again government ministers say they are listening when it comes to formulating policy in an environment of austerity. At a press conference on the day that the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill was published, the prime minister David Cameron said ...
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Legal aid lawyers band together to lobby government
Lawyers’ groups have come together in an informal coalition to lobby the government over its legal aid and civil costs reforms, which they claim will ‘threaten the entire legal advice network’. Groups including the Law Society, Bar Council, Legal Action Group, the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, ...
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Colombia dubbed ‘the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’
The South American state of Colombia is fast becoming the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’, the Law Society warned this week. Recently released figures reveal that six judges, 12 prosecutors and 334 other lawyers were murdered there between 2003 and 2009.
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Columbia dubbed ‘the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’
The South American state of Colombia is fast becoming the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’, the Law Society warned this week. Recently released figures reveal that six judges, 12 prosecutors and 334 other lawyers were murdered there between 2003 and 2009.
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Columbia dubbed ‘the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’
The South American state of Colombia is fast becoming the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’, the Law Society warned this week. Recently released figures reveal that six judges, 12 prosecutors and 334 other lawyers were murdered there between 2003 and 2009.
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Columbia dubbed ‘the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’
The South American state of Colombia is fast becoming the ‘lawyer murder capital of the world’, the Law Society warned this week. Recently released figures reveal that six judges, 12 prosecutors and 334 other lawyers were murdered there between 2003 and 2009.
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Claimant lawyers warn over health and safety review
Ministers have been warned they risk inviting a raft of claims by loosening health and safety legislation. Consultation closed last week on the Department for Work and Pensions review of workplace rules, with the results to be published in the autumn. Employment ...
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Solicitors fined £20,000 for sending intimidating letters
Two London solicitors have been fined and suspended for three months by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for sending intimidating letters accusing people of illegal filesharing. David Gore, a current partner at Davenport Lyons, and Brian Miller, a former partner at the same firm, were found guilty ...
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A struggle between the European courts and EU governments
A year ago, I wrote about the problems facing the European courts. These have not been resolved, and now there is an increasing dispute between the courts and the member states over whether the number of judges should be increased.
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MoJ clamps down on ‘rogue’ CMCs
The Ministry of Justice shut down nearly 350 rogue claims management companies over the last year, according to statistics released last week. In 2010/11, 349 unauthorised or unscrupulous firms were closed as the ministry clamped down on the exploitation of vulnerable consumers, compared to just 35 ...
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Will solicitors want to disclose their diversity information?
The publication of magic circle firm Linklaters’ diversity statistics last week was made all the more interesting by the fact that the Legal Services Board has just laid down in statutory guidance its expectation that all firms will need to be publishing similar information by 2012. ...
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A graphic picture of human rights abuses at Camp Ashraf
The bullet had torn through the flesh of her leg and shattered the thigh bone. There was blood, of course, but what I remember most vividly was the dazed shock in her eyes and the way her leg looked like something you might see on a ...
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Newspapers warned against prejudicing trials
Newspapers have been warned they risk impeding the course of justice if they vilify a suspect who is under arrest. The Sun and Daily Mirror were today both found to have breached the Contempt of Court Act 1981 through their reporting of the investigation into the ...