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‘Big is not beautiful’ says LSB in report on smaller regulators
An independent report commissioned by the Legal Services Board into the future of the smaller regulators has stressed that they must not be forced into radical changes in response to the Legal Services Act. The report, by former Ministry of Justice official Nick Smedley, predicted there ...
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Defective claims
I read with interest the variousletters pointing out that a claim form is a ‘statement of case’ and must be verified by a statement of truth. The standard claim form, N1, has the following statement of truth at the bottom of the second page: ‘(I believe) ...
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Clients want to see something tangible
I was interested to read Bob Haworth’s comments on bringing back Land Certificates. My experience also indicates that clients want something tangible. Indeed, some years ago I was applying to the Land Registry to make a small adjustment to a client’s Title and she handed ...
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Justice served cold
On 3 April 1759 Eugene Aram (pictured), a schoolmaster from Knaresborough in Yorkshire, was convicted of the murder of local shoemaker Daniel Clark, which had taken place 14 years previously. Three days after that conviction he was hanged and his remains suspended in chains near the scene of the crime ...
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Colombia concerns
While the Colombia Caravana UK Lawyers Group welcomes the commitment to the protection of human rights in Colombia expressed in ambassador Mauricio Rodriguez Munera’s letter, we continue to have grave concerns about the safety of Colombian human rights lawyers.
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The increasing world of regulation and compliance
In a secret location in the UK, there is a warehouse the size of a football pitch that climbs five storeys into the sky. Under its gargantuan roof are more than three million boxes and, in these boxes, are thousands and thousands of files and innumerable documents.
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Conflict of laws
Jurisdiction – Challenge to jurisdiction – Contract between parties AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLC v Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC: CA (Civ Div) Lord Justices Rix, Wilson and Stanley Burnton: 27 May 2011 ...
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New laws on the use of cookies
With accusations of ignorance and fear-mongering coming from both the privacy and the tech-freedom camps, recent new laws surrounding the use of ‘cookies’ have not been without their problems.
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New laws on the use of cookies
With accusations of ignorance and fear-mongering coming from both the privacy and the tech-freedom camps, recent new laws surrounding the use of ‘cookies’ have not been without their problems.
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Not cricket
England’s professionals may be riding high in the cricket world, but the same can’t be said for its solicitors. The Lawyers Cricket World Cup is set to go ahead later this year without the England solicitors team, which is apparently suffering from a shortage of numbers, Obiter hears. Quite what ...
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How mucking in pays dividends
I read with great interest Tony Roe’s article on starting a firm from scratch. It brought a smile to my face as it brought back memories of when I set up Millan Solicitors in 2004. As a small private general practice, we have had to ...
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How mucking in pays dividends
I read with great interest Tony Roe’s article on starting a firm from scratch. It brought a smile to my face as it brought back memories of when I set up Millan Solicitors in 2004. As a small private general practice, we have had to ...
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Fees for independent social work experts must be fair
by Richard J Jack, director of CISWA-UK The Confederation of Independent Social Work Agencies (CISWA-UK) read with concern a recent posting on the children’s panel group website. This indicates that some solicitors are inclined to avoid using experts who charge above the prescribed rates,even where such ...
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UK's top law firms see fee income growth
The UK’s top 100 law firms achieved overall fee income growth of 3.9% in the last financial year - but the gap between top and bottom is continuing to grow. Deloitte’s latest Quarterly Legal Sector Survey shows top firms increased productivity by 1.6% up to the ...
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Food glorious food
Thirty-five years ago, not long after the Gazette became a weekly, I wrote the editorials, writes James Morton. Not all of them of course – since I didn’t know a thing about anything except criminal law (and not much about that) but a fair number. For some reason, the then ...
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Mental health
Persons who lack capacity – Deprivation of liberty – Mental Capacity Act Hillingdon London Borough Council v Neary and others: (Court of Protection) Mr Justice Jackson: 9 June 2011 The ...
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Pedal power
Forget London’s Boris Bikes, one Tottenham firm has taken matters into its own hands to get its staff cycling to work. Conscious of the need to promote green awareness and reduce its carbon footprint, legal aid firm Wilsons has pedalled aboard the government’s cycle to work scheme.
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Clarke rules out raid on client account interest
In a small victory for the Law Society, the government has dropped plans to use the interest from firms’ client accounts to bolster the legal aid budget. In its response to the green paper consultation, published after yesterday’s publication of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment ...
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Djanogly urged to ease legal aid backlog
The president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association has written to justice minister Jonathan Djanogly (pictured) asking him to ‘directly assist’ in tackling the ‘appalling delay’ in legal aid applications and payments. Since the Legal Services Commission (LSC) centralized the administration of legal aid forms ...
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PCS strikers aim to close Supreme Court
The courts will rely on their depleted ranks of senior managers to remain open during industrial action, when Ministry of Justice members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) strike on 30 June in protest at proposed changes to public sector pensions and job cuts. ...