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EU takes UK to court over environmental law 'failings'
The European Commission has referred the UK government to the European Court of Justice (pictured) over its failure to provide an affordable procedure for mounting legal challenges to development plans that might damage the environment. The ECJ has the power to impose fines of up to ...
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Court stenographers to be replaced with digital recording
The quiet tapping of the court stenographer will be silenced by next year to be replaced with a high-tech recording system.
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Decision to support SRA structures regulation shows leadership
As announced in the Gazette, the Law Society has voted to support the Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) application to the Legal Services Board for approval as a licensor of alternative business structures. In doing so the Law Society demonstrated an element of the leadership that ...
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Lawyers at the heart of the EU’s single market
We already know that there are many different forms of English – Microsoft allows for 18 of them – and I suggest that Euro-English now join the group as the 19th. I am reminded of this because the European Commission wants to boost the single ...
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Law Society will intervene over LPP extension
The Law Society will seek to intervene to prevent legal professional privilege (LPP) being extended to accountants if the matter comes before the Supreme Court, Chancery Lane said last week. Financial services company Prudential was granted leave to appeal a previous Court of Appeal decision ...
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Legal flicks
Killing time on Twitter last week, Obiter was amused by a thread of tweets under the hash tag ‘solicitormovies’. Twits, twitterers, the legal twitteratti, or whatever the appropriate term is, have posted film titles incorporating the names of law firms. ...
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Team GB: world police?
It is said that it is far better to give than to receive. That may be so, but under the Bribery Act 2010 both may be an offence, so ‘receiving’ may now have the edge. After a false start or two, the act will finally come ...
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Local government
Human rights - Social welfare - Child protection - Disclosure (1) H (2) L v A City Council: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Pill, Hooper, Munby): 14 April 2011 The ...
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Wish you were here?
It’s not quite Prague or Venice, but local firm Powell Forster has produced this postcard to celebrate its home town of, er, Brixton, sadly still most famous for the 1981 riots. ‘Beautiful’ might be pushing it a bit, but Obiter applauds the sentiment.
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Human rights
Freezing orders - Lists - Right to a fair trial - Terrorists Secretary of State for the Foreign Office and Commonwealth Affairs v (1) E Maftah (2) A Khaled: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Judge LCJ, Lord Justice Sedley, Lady ...
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Human rights LinkedIn launch
The Gazette has launched a human rights LinkedIn group for solicitors interested in civil liberties and human rights issues in the UK and internationally. The group, launched jointly with the Law Society’s international human rights team, will become a leading discussion forum for topics ranging ...
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Immigration
Penology and criminology - Absconding - Category D prisoners - Classification R (on the application of Gregory Omoregbee) (Claimant) v (1) Secretary of State for Justice (2) Governor of Hewell Prison (Defendants) and UK Border Agency (Interested Party): CA ...
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Personal injury
Health and safety at work - Codes of practice - Employers’ liability - Noise Stephanie Baker (Respondent) v (1) Quantum Clothing Group (2) Pretty Polly Ltd (3) Meridian Ltd (Appellants): SC (Justices of the Supreme Court: Lords Mance, Kerr, ...
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Out of la mêlée
Just in, this match report from a gruelling international rugby encounter between the Cardiff Lawyers XV and their Parisian counterparts, Rugby Club du Palais de Justice de Paris. Mark Rostron, partner at Hunt & Morgan, informs Obiter that it was a physical encounter with hard hits going in from both ...
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From law suits to ties
Obiter had to check the calendar last week on receiving an email announcing the launch of a ‘revolutionary’ new product created by Scottish solicitor Chris Gibson: the ‘SuperTie’. The ‘guaranteed perfect necktie’ combines ‘the innovation of a zipper mechanism’ with ‘Scottish values of high quality’. ...
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How to manage staff after the removal of the default retirement age
Until 6 April this year, 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. ...
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Law Society condemns Iraqi military attack
The Law Society's human rights committee has condemned an attack by the Iraqi military on Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, during which 34 civilians died and 300 were wounded. Film footage of the 8 April attack shows Iraqi security ...
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Pannone launches ‘white label’ legal services
A Manchester firm has launched a new division to tap into the customer base of major retail, insurance and financial services companies. Pannone is negotiating with several potential partners to join its ‘white label’ legal services division, known as Affinity Solutions, with one unnamed business already ...
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Figures reveal rise in age discrimination claims
Age discrimination claims rose 164% in 2010, despite an overall fall in the number of employment claims, according to figures obtained by London firm EMW. Data from employment tribunals shows that they issued 1,100 age discrimination claims in the last quarter of 2009, and 2,900 in ...
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Lawyers call for mobility scooter insurance changes
Personal injury lawyers have called for a comprehensive review of the Road Traffic Act to ensure mobility scooter riders have to take out insurance cover. Simon O’Loughlin, a partner at Hodges, Jones & Allen, said a sharp rise in scooter riders is inevitable with an ageing ...