All News articles – Page 1597
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National Accident Helpline launches charter for panel firms
National Accident Helpline (NAH) has launched a customer charter for the solicitor firms on its panel, which it said will ‘offer new guarantees of the highest service standards to consumers accessing justice for personal injuries’. NAH, which refers personal injury claims to a panel of 105 ...
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Civil Procedure Rules 2010 – latest amendments
With one exception the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2010, and related amendments to the CPR practice directions (PDs) in the 53rd update, come into force on 1 October 2010. Perhaps the most important changes are those which implement three recommendations in Lord Justice Jackson’s (pictured) report on ...
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Why doesn’t everyone get a will?
Intimations of mortality, to adapt a phrase from William Wordsworth, concentrate the mind wonderfully on the need to prepare a will.
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Competition law and contractual interpretation
One of the more routine tasks of a competition lawyer is to review commercial agreements, or parts of agreements, in order to determine whether they unlawfully restrict competition. The Court of Justice in Commission v Anic Partecipazioni [1999] ECR I-4125 confirmed that the concept of agreements, decisions by associations or ...
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MoJ consults on bribery prevention procedures
The Ministry of Justice has published draft guidance to companies on procedures to prevent bribery. The guidance is published under section 9 of the Bribery Act, which is due to come into force next April. The Bribery Act creates a new corporate offence of failure to ...
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Young legal aid lawyers call for quality
The Young Legal Aid Lawyers group has called on the government to put quality of service at the heart of any new legal aid scheme to safeguard the rule of law. In a briefing paper to the Ministry of Justice, which is carrying out a review ...
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Free publicity for legal services
Marketing legal services can be difficult and expensive, so wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easy way to get some priceless publicity for free?
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Akzo ruling against in-house privilege in competition matters
The European Court of Justice has ruled that legal professional privilege does not apply to legal advice given by in-house lawyers in EU competition law investigations. Ruling in the Akzo Nobel case today, the ECJ said that an in-house lawyer, regardless of their membership of a ...
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Recruitment on the rise for private practice
Corporate and private client firms are stepping up their recruitment, experts said today, as public sector bodies seek to reduce their headcount. Recruiters said large firms have returned to their previous practice of sending lengthy ‘vacancy lists’ to recruiters, in a sign of a strengthening of ...
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Mortgage fraud will cause problems for solicitors
The downturn in the global economy caused, as many believe by a property asset bubble, ended as all do by showing who was swimming naked when the tide went out. On this occasion it was the banks that for years had been fuelling the bubble with ...
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Tributes paid following death of Lord Bingham
Tributes have been paid to Lord Bingham of Cornhill, the former lord chief justice and one of the pre-eminent judges of his generation, following his death on Saturday. He had been suffering from cancer and died at his home in Wales aged 76. ...
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Happy 50th birthday to the CCBE
Fifty years ago last week, some lawyers participating in a conference of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) in Basle, Switzerland, took a boat trip along the Rhine. On that trip, they fell to talking about how best to look after the interests of lawyers in the new Europe that ...
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Downing Street backing for Djanogly over Telegraph claims
Downing Street has expressed ‘full confidence’ in justice minister Jonathan Djanogly, who is in charge of legal aid, following claims in the Telegraphtoday that the minister hired private detectives to find out what his colleagues thought of him. The newspaper reported that Djanogly paid a private ...
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Why government is taking wrong approach to cutting lawyers’ jobs
As the Gazette reported this week, the government’s spending review, to report next month, will lead to substantial cuts in the ranks of the 2,000-strong Government Legal Service.
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Guidance on ABS discussions may be amended
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to review its current guidance on what arrangements firms may enter into with other businesses when alternative business structures come into force in October 2011. However, the SRA board was emphatic that ‘those in control of law firms must be under ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, 5 September 1990 Postbox – the politics of pro bonoHow often is quite exceptional service rendered to a client in return for no more ...
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Immigration
Administrative law – Civil procedure – Education – Admissions R (on the application of A&S Training College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: QBD (Admin) (Judge Birtles): 27 August 2010 ...
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Websites and why HIP replacements are overdue
Is your firm’s web site still offering home information packs? A pat on the back if not. But I see a lot of firms’ websites, and I’m still coming across many that have not been updated since the demise of HIPs several months ago.
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We want your thoughts on the Gazette website
How often do you visit the Gazette website? Do you participate in our social media activities? Are you aware that our online platforms contain a wealth of information that complements your weekly print magazine? It appeared to us timely to ask these questions in the ...
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Football, home fixtures and hotels
Net returns: North-west firm Brabners Chaffe Street advised Liverpool Football Club on appointing Roy Hodgson, formerly of Fulham Football Club and advised by London firm Michael Simkins, as team manager. It also advised Manchester United on acquiring striker Javier Hernández (pictured) from Mexican ...