All News articles – Page 1570
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County courts system failure
The complaints of Graeme Hydari regarding the state of the criminal courts in which he practises are reflected in the state of certain county courts, and in particular the Central London County Court.
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Court hearings should not be private, says Lord Neuberger
Court proceedings should be in public and freely reported, and any restrictions should be kept to the minimum necessary to enable justice to be done, the Court of Appeal said last week. Refusing to allow a case to be heard in private, the master of the ...
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Royal Courts of Justice were 'incompetent'
I noted with interest the Obiteritem reporting the Family Justice Review Panel’s comment that the family justice system is in fact ‘not a system at all’ (see [2011] Gazette, 7 April, 35). Last week, my husband, two-year-old daughter and I were ordered to attend the Royal ...
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Solicitors can help CPS get rape retraction prosecutions right
by Keir Starmer, director of public prosecutions A woman makes a rape allegation against a man, and then later retracts it.
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Doctors know how to cure oversupply
I write in response to Gemma Bond’s letter. Considering the struggling economy, legal aid cuts (particularly the Legal Services Commission’s training grant scheme), and concerns in relation to alternative business structures and changes to civil costs, the drop in training contracts is no surprise. ...
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Witnesses and directed surveillance
In his letter, Jon Mack may have misunderstood Ibrahim Hasan’s article of 10 March on directed surveillance. The focus of the piece was changes in the law now proposed, namely judicial approval, which is already the subject of the Protection of Freedoms Bill and the ...
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Employment
Discrimination - Compensatory awards - Maternity leave - Polkey reductions Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v J De Belin: EAT (Mr Justice Underhill (president), B Beynon, T Haywood): 6 April 2011 ...
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Irwin Mitchell to seek external investment
National firm Irwin Mitchell has become one of the first law firms to give notice that it will seek external investment as it embraces the opportunities presented by the Legal Services Act. The firm, which has nine offices in the UK, will seek external investment ...
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Family law
Human rights - European Court of Human Rights - International Child Abduction - Rights of custody Re E (Children) sub nom (1) KE (2) TB (Appellants) v SE (Respondent) and (1) Reunite (2) Aire Centre (Interveners): CA (Civ Div) ...
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Family law
Contact orders - Enforcement - Parental contact - Residence orders Re H (A Child): CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Thorpe, Tomlinson): 7 April 2011 The appellant mother (M) appealed against ...
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Law firm launches online fixed-fee service
A London law firm and a barristers’ chambers have collaborated to offer a new online fixed-fee legal advice scheme. EDC Lord & Co and 6 Pump Court Chambers have launched ClickLaw24.com with referral agency Contact Law. The service provides 24/7 access to ...
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Proportionality and housing possession – the sequel
On 23 February the Supreme Court gave judgment in what was effectively episode two of the housing possession proportionality drama (see the conjoined appeal in London Borough of Hounslow v Powell [2011] UKSC 8). Back in November 2010 the Supreme Court had made an important ...
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The problem with injunctions
I know the name of the Premier League footballer who has taken out an injunction to prevent his private life being thrust into public consumption. Or at least, I think I know. I’ve certainly heard his name mentioned over a chat at the bar. ...
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Justice rumbles on
Obiter confesses to being a bit of a grouch when the tummy is rumbling, but it seems he is not the only one. This fascinating graph supplied to Obiter by science journalist Ed Yong reveals an interesting relationship between the grant of parole and the ...
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On your marks for the LSC
The Legal Services Commission is clearly getting into the spirit of 2012. In recent months bills to the LSC have been returned and the travel time claimed has progressively been reduced. Our office is situated just over 1.5 miles from Bristol County Court. Many fee-earners ...
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You say ‘tomato’, I say ‘moneymaker’
In these straitened times for legal aid lawyers, Obiter was impressed to hear of a fresh initiative from David Pickup, eponymous partner at Pickup & Scott. Industry at Pickup’s firm is not in doubt, of course, but he reflects in an email to Obiter that ...
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Solicitors have won the battle over insurance
The legal profession locks horns with the insurance industry on a daily basis, and this animosity is only increased when a regulator or a government decides that the two must change their ways. But in my three years at the Gazette, I can’t remember a ...
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Linklaters tops table of law firm websites
Magic circle firm Linklaters has the best corporate website of the top 10 UK law firms, according to a new benchmarking survey. Linklaters’ site was placed 6th in a survey of 100 corporate websites by digital marketing agency Intendance, with magic circle firm Slaughter and May ...