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Sound Off campaigners deliver Downing Street letter
Supporters of the Law Society's Sound off for Justice campaign delivered a letter to Downing Street yesterday urging Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene and withdraw the planned £350m cut to legal aid. The letter was delivered by members of the Law Society and Rheagan Hendry, ...
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Instituting change
If you thought the Women’s Institute was all about making jam and cakes, think again. Members of the WI took part in protests against legal aid cuts last week, demonstrating the extent to which the campaign has now moved beyond just lawyers. ...
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Lawyers charging consumers for complaints - research
Lawyers are failing to advise consumers how to go about making complaints and in some cases are charging people for complaining, research by the Legal Services Board (LSB) has found. A survey of dissatisfied legal customers by YouGov revealed more than half were never told about ...
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Tighten rules to protect young witnesses, say charities
Children’s charities have called for ground rules to be enforced in court to prevent the exploitation of young witnesses. A report released this week by the NSPCC and Nuffield Foundation found that inadequate procedures and a lack of training for legal professionals were having detrimental effects ...
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Civil procedure
Conflict of laws - Jurisdiction - Stay of proceedings Striborg Ltd v (1) FKI Engineering Ltd (2) FKI Ltd: CA (Civ Div): (Lord Justices Mummery, Rix, Wilson): 25 May 2011 ...
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Patient data leaked to personal injury claims worker
A claims company employee has been fined after using his former girlfriend to obtain patients’ confidential records. Martin Campbell (pictured) was supplied with the personal data of 29 people by his then partner Dawn Makin, who worked as a nurse at walk-in health centres in Bury. ...
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Nine non-solicitors to join and vote on Scottish law society council
The Law Society of Scotland has appointed nine new non-solicitor members to its council, to comply with new legislation. They have full voting rights and will replace the current three lay observers. The new appointees come from a diverse range of backgrounds ...
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Scottish government to review role of Supreme Court
The Scottish government has set up a panel of experts led by a former solicitor general for Scotland to review the ‘aggressive’ intervention of the Supreme Court in Scotland’s legal affairs. The review was sparked by growing disquiet among Scottish politicians and lawyers at the Supreme ...
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Criminal evidence
Criminal procedure - Criminal appeals - Fresh evidence - Identification R v George Davis: CA (Crim Div): (Lord Justices Hughes (Vice-President), Henriques, Macur): 24 May 2011 The appellant (D) appealed ...
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Criminal procedure
Criminal evidence - Human rights - Scottish devolution issues - Miscarriage of justice Stephanie Baker (Respondent) v (1) Nat Gordon Fraser v HM Advocate: SC (Lords Hope (Deputy President), Rodger, Brown, Kerr, Dyson): 25 May 2011 ...
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Law firms and retirement
Until 6 April, law firms could safely give notice to ‘retire’ employed staff at 65 under the default retirement age (DRA) exemption. Provided they followed the correct statutory retirement process, the retirement would be ‘fair’ with no age-discrimination risk. Indeed, ...
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The funding solution
Sound financial management has become a key issue for law firms as for the first time banks are closely scrutinising lending to these legal companies and implementing new credit policies. It is worth looking at how law firms can effectively demonstrate their financial acumen in ...
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Head for heights
Kingsbury solicitor Manish Patel (pictured) is to embark on a 13-day trek to the Mount Everest base camp in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal next February, in aid of the International Childcare Trust. He will endure some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth. ...
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HMRC may stall lawyers’ taxis
Late-working City lawyers could soon find themselves rubbing shoulders with office cleaners and other shift workers on the night bus if plans to abolish tax relief on late-night taxis are carried through by HM Revenue & Customs. Where employees are required to work significantly later than ...
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Human Rights Institute questions Sri Lanka's judicial independence
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has written to the Sri Lankan government to voice its concerns about the erosion of judicial independence in the country. IBAHRI expressed particular concern about constitutional amendments limiting the chief justice’s term of office to five years, and ...
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Immigration
Anonymity - Asylum seekers - Deportation - Detention Shepherd Masimba Kambadzi v Secretary of State for the Home Department: SC (Lord Hope (Deputy President), Lords Rodger, Brown, Kerr, Lady Hale): 25 May 2011 ...
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Law theory test
I read Jonathan Goldsmith’s recent column with more than a passing interest. The perspective with which I read it was the exact opposite of the German lawyer to whom he alludes, in that I have just moved from private practice into academia. ...
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Unwilling to listen
I read your recent news article highlighting the report from three expert judges who issued a stark warning about current proposals to reform the civil litigation system. It is extraordinary that the government continues to push through its ideas regardless.
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Proportionate orders for sale
In a previous column (see ‘Charging to the front of the queue’), I pointed out that the scope for the court to refuse a creditor a charging order over a debtor’s property was more limited than many debtors would wish. What of the enforcement ...