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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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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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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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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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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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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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LinkedIn group: membership tops 2,000
Membership of the Gazette’s LinkedIn group broke through the 2,000 mark this week – a rise of 1,000 so far this year. The social networking group, which is open to all solicitors, features topical discussions on issues affecting the profession, as well as regular updates of ...
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Data page August 2010
The data page is the financial rates and data compiled for the Law Society Gazette by MoneyFacts group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. Downloads Download the ...
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The Digital Economy Act 2010 and online copyright infringement
The Digital Economy Act 2010 – legislation to fit Britain for the digital age, or the oppressive tool of capitalist lickspittles? You be the judge. Digital Britain was an impressive white paper published in June 2009 containing a raft ...
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Pro bono panel for 2012 Olympics
The Law Society and Bar Council are to establish a joint pro bono panel of advisers for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Although City firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the official legal adviser to the London Olympics, the games’ organising committee has asked the two representative ...
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SRA pays out over £9m to former clients of Wolstenholmes
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has so far paid out more than £9m to former clients of Cheshire firm Wolstenholmes. The SRA closed down the firm, which had offices in Cheadle and Birmingham, last year, on the grounds of suspected dishonesty and breaches of the solicitors’ accountancy ...
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SRA ‘unlikely’ to relax ABS restrictions
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is unlikely to relax its rules on allowing firms to enter into deals with other businesses in advance of the licensing of alternative business structures, a paper prepared by the regulator has indicated. The paper, which will be discussed by the SRA ...
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Young set to rule out TV ad ban for personal injury
Lord Young will not seek to ban TV advertising for personal injury work in his review of the ‘compensation culture’, but is expected to call for a strengthening of referral fee regulations. Sources close to Lord Young of Graffham’s review, due to report this month, ...
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Crowned advocate
With the traditional image of a solicitor being a little – dare we suggest – staid, it is heartening to know that a touch of glamour will be heading our way in a few years. Jessica Linley, a 21-year-old law student at Nottingham University and the current Miss Nottingham, has ...
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The Law Society will continue to fight over the legal aid tender
‘There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.’ So said US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in 1964. More than 45 years later we are still fighting to ensure access to justice for all. ...
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Firm claims sex discrimination in legal aid tender
A London firm has claimed sex discrimination in judicial review proceedings challenging the Legal Services Commission’s refusal to award it immigration and community care contracts. Hereward & Foster issued proceedings in the Administrative Court on 7 September and has requested an expedited hearing. ...
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Hair on air
Watch out those readers who find the Direct Line telephone really annoying. A new inanimate object with a boisterous personality is about to hit our screens, and its creators have told Obiter they are planning to make it just as ubiquitous as the famous red phone. As lawgazette.co.uk reported last ...
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Altar-native career
Richard Taylor, partner at DLA Piper in Sheffield and the Gazette’s IP guru, has something of a passion for churches. So much so that he is currently on the box presenting a new BBC television series, Churches: How to Read Them, based on his own book of the same name. ...
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Lib Dem peer attacks partners over tax avoidance
Some partners at certain magic circle law firms are still not paying their fair share of tax, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman claimed this week, after first raising the issue back in June. Lord Oakeshott said in the House of Lords then that, according to ‘a ...
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Solicitors under fire from bar over referral fees
The new Criminal Bar Association chair has criticised solicitors for ‘abusing’ the referral fee arrangements for Crown court advocacy, claiming that solicitors are pocketing money for work done by barristers. In his first interview as CBA chair, Christopher Kinch QC told the Gazette: ‘The criminal bar ...