All News articles – Page 1558
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Christianity is not totalitarianism
I cannot believe that Darren White equates Christianity with totalitarianism. The latter imposes its will on the population. The former tells people what the situation is and leaves them free to decide for themselves. Likewise David Rhodes, with respect, misunderstands what ...
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City law firms urged to rethink strategy
City firms must reinvent themselves to keep pace with the changing corporate sector over the next decade, according to a report published last week. Legal consultancy Jomati, run by Tony Williams, former managing partner of magic circle firm Clifford Chance, said firms will need a new ...
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High Court delays judgment over Sittingbourne court closure
The High Court has reserved judgment in its judicial review of the Ministry of Justice’s decision to close Sittingbourne Magistrates Court. The court will close for business tomorrow, but the legal challenge to that closure, brought by Kent firm Robin Murray & Co, was heard yesterday ...
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Cost judges voiced fears over Jackson reforms, report reveals
Three costs judges from the Senior Court Costs Office broke ranks to object to radical reform of civil litigation, it has emerged. Masters Campbell, Haworth and Leonard said they were ‘unhappily’ unable to agree with the majority view of the costs judges who supported recommendations made ...
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News focus: counsel for Europe
Proposals for an EU-wide approach to collective redress exposed deep divisions among delegates gathered in Luxembourg for last week’s plenary session of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Collective redress, sometimes called group litigation or class action, was the subject of one ...
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Criminal procedure
Compensation - Facts - Fresh evidence - Miscarriage of justice R (on the application of Andrew Keith Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice: In the matter of Eamonn MacDermott: In the matter of Raymond Pius McCartney: SC (Justices ...
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Station of the cross
It wasn’t quite a papal decree that kept David Morgan, consultant at London firm RadcliffesLeBrasseur, away from a meeting of European lawyers in Luxembourg last week. But it came within a cardinal’s whisker of being one. Morgan, a member of ...
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Different ethics
Atheism and Christianity produce different law and ethics. Militant scientific atheism tells us that, biologically, a human is more intelligent but no more special than a chimpanzee or a slug. Our noblest thoughts are just chemical ...
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Disability discrimination
The decision of the House of Lords in London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm [2008] UKHL 43, [2008] 4 All ER 525, made it significantly more difficult for a disabled tenant to argue that his landlord had discriminated against him on the grounds of disability. Mr ...
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Religious privilege exists
In his letter of 19 May (Christianity needs more than just ceremonial support) in response to my letter of 6 May, Ian Newman makes some interesting points. He seems upset that the Queen has done nothing to ‘Defend the Faith’. ...
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Faith is rational
Lord Justice Laws’ statement (quoted by Ian Newman in his letter) that 'religious faith is necessarily subjective, being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence', is of course itself 'necessarily' subjective being the reasoning or opinion of an individual, no matter how eminent or important.
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Family law
Administration of justice - Anonymity - Lump sum orders - Matrimonial property K v L: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Laws, Jacob, Wilson): 13 May 2011 The appellant husband (H) ...
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LSB to further probe value of quality schemes
The Legal Services Board is to seek further evidence to assess the usefulness of quality schemes for indicating whether law firms provide a good service to consumers, it revealed today. The LSB has asked its Legal Services Consumer Panel, the body that advises it on the ...
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Good legal service matters
With regard to ‘Join a brand, warns Holt’ there is a fundamental difference between providing a service and selling a product. Tesco and WHSmith sell products. The legal profession provides legal services. Some may wish ...
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Lord Judge could not have predicted the impact of the internet on the law
Technology is inherently subversive, in that it can undermine established authority. It did so during the Industrial Revolution, by creating the bourgeoisie and heralding the decline of the landed aristocracy. And it is hardly fanciful to suggest that it is ...
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Mynah inconvenience
A newspaper article I read the other day, about an argument over who should keep ownership of a rather handsome labrador, reminded me of a 1959 breach of promise action, writes James Morton. Middle-aged gentleman William Bensfield had jilted a widow a few years younger ...
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When should the ombudsman involve the SRA?
As a new creation and as a lay organisation, rather than one already embedded in the minds of lawyers, LeO has always considered it important to try to break down the barriers between us and the profession. So one of the things we have tried ...
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Land proof needed
Edwin Lee refers in his letter to an increase in property fraud. The cause of it is not so much the open register, but HM Land Registry’s decision to do away with documentary proof of land ownership. A person who rents ...
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Working in the law for less
As a practising barrister with no party-political affiliation, I have, like all lawyers, had to think long and hard recently about what our reaction should be to the savage cuts to legal aid imposed by ministers who have very adequate incomes, and in some cases substantial private wealth. ...
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Pioneers recognised
With women poised to overtake men in the solicitors’ profession over the next few years, it is heartening to see that the four aspiring female lawyers who set the ball rolling back in 1913 were added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography this week. ...