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Why lawyers say yes to work experience students
In common with many firms, there are times in the year where we have work shadowers, or interns if you are really posh. Whatever you call them they write in or email begging for a position. The summer is the same if not more busy. ...
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Neuberger sets out injunctions review
The UK’s leading judges have warned MPs not to abuse their parliamentary privilege to break the privacy achieved by injunctions. Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, appeared before the media this morning to set out a review of injunctions. The report ...
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Sterling efforts at legal walks raised more than £500,000
One must grudgingly admire legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly’s chutzpah in turning up to this week’s record-breaking London Legal sponsored walk. For its spectacular success will hopefully go some small way to compensating for the deep cuts to funding for social welfare law that his ...
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City lawyer sacked after claiming '£1m' expenses
A City lawyer specialising in fraud cases has been dismissed after ‘wrongly’ claiming more than £1m in expenses from his firm. Christopher Grierson was removed from the partnership at Hogan Lovells after the firm concluded an investigation. Lovells said Grierson, who qualified ...
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CPS under fire over advocate panels
The Crown Prosecution Service faced pressure from both its own inspectorate and the Bar Council this week over its procurement of external advocates. The Gazette has learned that the Bar Council is seeking advice on a judicial review of the CPS’s new advocate panels. ...
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Stress among solicitors remains ‘high'
High numbers of solicitors are seeking help with depression and alcohol addiction problems, according to the latest figures from charity LawCare. The charity’s 2010 annual report, to be published later this year, shows that stress is still by far the biggest problem faced by callers to ...
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Court of Appeal in landmark compensation ruling
The Court of Appeal has overturned an Employment Tribunal’s decision to award a dismissed worker career-long compensation. Lord Justice Elias last week ruled that the tribunal had erred in awarding almost £375,000 to banker Michael Wardle in Wardle v Calyon. Wardle ...
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Harrow Law Centre's community approach is the 'model to follow'
The multi-funded community approach adopted by the newly launched Harrow Law Centre is the ‘model to follow’ for the voluntary sector, according to the centre’s chair Pamela Fitzpatrick. Lord Justice Mummery opened the centre, which provides advice on social welfare law, public law, community care, housing, ...
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Pro bono approval
On 12 May Jonathan Rayner reported on the ‘outcry’ that has arisen because in-house lawyers might be prevented from working pro bono. In addressing this issue, two principles should be kept in balance:
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European Arrest Warrants are 'misused', says FTI
Mismanagement of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) has led to a ‘no questions asked’ extradition regime with severe human and financial costs to those charged with minor offences, according to a report by Fair Trials International (FTI).
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Insurers attack high volume of whiplash claims
Insurers have decried the UK as the whiplash capital of Europe with nearly 1,200 claims made every day.
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Government seeks views on equal pay audit plans
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is seeking employment lawyers’ views on proposals that would see employers who fail to comply with equal pay laws required to conduct a pay audit of their company. The BIS consultation, published this week, noted that the gender ...
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Dodging the bullets
In the wake of James Morton’s column about attacks on judges, Obiter has received correspondence from James S Vickers taking issue with the assertion that the late Ann Goddard was the only judge in living memory to have been attacked in a British court. Vickers ...
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Law firms in cash call to partners
At least five of the top-20 law firms are planning to make a capital call on partners, the Gazette has learned. Mid-tier firms are also seeking to shore up their balance sheets, with at least 15 of the firms in the 20-50 size bracket seeking to ...
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Solicitors start road safety campaign
A Cardiff firm has launched a national road safety campaign. Elisabeth Roth and Liz Phipps, solicitors in the personal injury team at Cardiff firm NewLaw, have spearheaded the Improve Roads, Improve Safety (IRIS) initiative in an attempt to reduce deaths on the road. ...
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Christianity needs more than just ceremonial support
In his letter of 6 May pertaining to the Comment piece by Andrea Minichiello Williams, ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’, Charlie Klendjian does not appear to have as full a grasp of the facts as he claims. First, the Queen, despite her Coronation Oath, has ...
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Foul-mouthed and charitable
Solicitors are often able to make a few bob by swearing oaths. But East Sussex firm Housing Law Services has been raising cash through an altogether different type of swearing. The firm introduced a ‘swear box’ over Lent, and raised ...
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The legal context of FIFA corruption claims
Is FIFA a law unto itself? Jeremy Summers considers the legal context of Lord Triesman’s allegations that FIFA executive members sought bribes in return for backing England’s 2018 World Cup bid Although football will ...
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The law comes first
I read the ‘Comment’ article by Andrea Minichiello Williams. The bottom line has to be that no one should expect to be able to put their own beliefs before the law without consequences. People are, perhaps, arrested, sacked and so ...