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Green pioneers slash carbon footprints
Almost 40% of law firms in the Legal Sector Alliance (LSA) have cut their carbon footprints in the last year, according to the alliance’s annual report, released today. In 2010, the average amount of carbon generated per LSA member employee varied between 0.48 and 8.94 tonnes, ...
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Chancery Lane to intervene in CFA case
The Law Society has been given permission to intervene in a Court of Appeal case on civil litigation funding which it claims could ensure access to justice for many clients in the wake of the government’s proposed legal aid cuts. The case concerns a challenge by ...
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How the property market is changing as law firms weigh up office space
There is a strong sense that the property market is changing in important ways for law firms of all sizes as occupiers.
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Civil procedure
Discrimination – Equality and Human Rights Commission – Lay assessors S Deman v Commission for Equality and Human Rights and others: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justices Sedley, Moses): 6 November 2010 ...
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Insurers seek to pursue solicitors over whiplash fraud claims
The insurance industry is seeking to pursue solicitors whom it believes are involved in fraudulent whiplash claims, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said. James Dalton, ABI assistant director of motor and liability, told delegates at the Motor Accident Solicitors Society annual conference last ...
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Clients keep legal spending in-house
Commercial firms are competing in a static market as large clients grow their in-house legal teams rather than turn to external firms to deal with an increasing workload, research seen exclusively by the Gazette has indicated. An annual benchmarking survey of 124 heads of legal ...
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Financial crutch
The chaps at Cheltenham personal injury firm Ross Aldridge must really have the gift of the gab. Despite reports that banks have cooled off on lending to law firms, the firm has just secured a whopping £1m funding package from Barclays Corporate, under the Government Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme. What’s ...
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Demo-crazy
Last week’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid, at which justice minister Jonathan Djanogly was available to answer questions, was packed out by lawyers (even though a few legal bigwigs, including Bar Council chair Nick Green QC, had to miss out because they were stuck behind ...
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Immigration
Asylum - Asylum seekers - Persecution (1) RT (Zimbabwe) (2) SM (Zimbabwe) (3) DM (Zimbabwe) (4) AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justices Carnwath, Lloyd, Sullivan): 18 November 2010 ...
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Injunctions and protecting private information
Adakini Ntuli v Howard Donald [2010] EWCA Civ 1276 – ‘Why shud I continue 2 suffer financially 4 the sake of loyalty when selling my story will sort my life out?’
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Intellectual property
Conflict of laws - Information technology - Authorisation (1) Football Dataco Ltd (2) Scottish Premier League Ltd (3) Scottish Football League (4) PA Sport UK LTD v (1) Sportradar GMBH (a company registered in Germany) (2) Sportradar AG ...
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Legal aid solicitors overpaid by £77m
Legal aid solicitors have been overpaid by almost £77m, according to a report published today by public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office. Qualifying the Legal Services Commission’s accounts for the second year running, the NAO estimated a total of £76.5m had been overpaid to legal ...
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Rise in number of intestacy disputes
The number of people challenging the inheritance left by their relatives or partners has risen by 38% over the past year, according to figures obtained by City firm Wedlake Bell. Data from the High Court shows that the number of cases launched by people, including children, ...
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Time for partners to focus on personal finances
The current climate has led many legal partners to rethink their plans for saving for the future. Now more than ever, with the Christmas break right around the corner and tax returns due in January, many partners will be reflecting on their personal financial plans and approaches to any further ...
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Family courts have lost authority, warns judge
A High Court judge has warned that the family court needs to reassert its authority to tackle the ‘lack of respect’ shown for its orders. Speaking at the Association of Lawyers for Children annual conference at the weekend, Mr Justice Coleridge said that, in placing ...
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Legal executives seek independent conveyancing rights
Legal executives could be granted independent rights to provide conveyancing services from next September, if a forthcoming application to the Legal Services Board is successful. But conveyancing solicitors have questioned the economic logic of encouraging new entrants into an already overcrowded market, where transaction rates have ...
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Why workplace monitoring is critical to an inclusive legal profession
by Stephen Ward, communications director and and diversity champion at the Law Society On 25 October, the Law Society published the first annual report on the progress of its Diversity and Inclusion Charter. Some 180 firms and in-house practices are now signatories to the charter, ...
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Latest news from inter-governmental organisations
It is a strange paradox that as the world becomes more globalised, our attention is drawn more to the local, as if we are incapable of encompassing a span that takes in the whole world. As a result, developments which take place at inter-governmental organisations – in some strange city, ...
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Court of Appeal dismisses US-style class action bid
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt to bring a US-style class action against British Airways for participating in an airfreight price-fixing cartel, just nine days after the European Commission (EC) fined the airline more than €100m (£85m) for its role in the cartel and told claimants that they ...