All News articles – Page 1659
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A spot of bother
Typical. Even a celebrity England football team manage to blow it from the penalty spot. Worse, they lose with the winning penalty taken by a Yank. Captained by crooner Robbie Williams (pictured), this Soccer Aid England team, also comprising boxer Ricky Hatton, X Factor something-or-other Olly Murs and a good ...
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Chancery Lane warning over budget tax hike
The capital gains tax (CGT) increase announced in this week’s budget will mean trustees and personal representatives administering the estates of the deceased could feel the full brunt of the rise, the Law Society has warned, as gains made will be at risk of exposure to the new higher rate. ...
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Human rights test case call for sharia law
A ‘parallel’ system of justice based on Islamic law should face a test case under the Human Rights Act, a group campaigning against religious laws said this week. The One Law for All Campaign called for a case to be initiated to determine whether Muslim arbitration tribunals and sharia councils ...
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Wake-up call
I cannot help but comment on the relative health of the legal profession compared with the medical profession.
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Regime change
The coalition government is scrapping the Financial Services Authority as a result of the latter’s comprehensive failure to provide effective regulation.
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FSA chief warns over enforcement disruption
The scrapping of the Financial Services Authority must not disrupt a pipeline of pending insider dealing and market abuse cases, its enforcement chief warned this week. Margaret Cole (pictured), the FSA’s director of enforcement, said it is ‘vital that the momentum of enforcement activity is ...
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Civil procedure
Automatic striking out – Litigants in person – Non-compliance – Unduly harsh sanction Kinsley v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis: CA (Civ Div): (Lords Justices Ward, Thomas, Pitchford): 9 June 2010 ...
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Smaller firms to collaborate in north-west
An innovative project to help smaller law firms work together to become more competitive has been launched in the north-west. The initiative could involve around 10 Greater Manchester firms setting up a single management company to manage shared support services to help them prosper in the post-Legal Services Act environment. ...
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‘Collapse of representation’ fears over LSC’s mental health tender
The ‘extraordinary’ results of the Legal Services Commission’s mental health tender have left established firms facing bankruptcy and could trigger the ‘collapse of representation’, solicitors have warned. The tender outcomes, which were published to providers last week, have resulted in many experienced providers being given less ...
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Competence powers and school exclusions
‘Under new management’ signs are festooned across the variegated organs of government, from Whitehall to town hall. The new coalition government has not been slow in charting new ground.
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Former Mishcon partner in court
A former partner at City firm Mishcon de Reya last week appeared in court charged with using falsified bank documents to obtain a €22m (£18m) loan. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) alleges that between 1 July 2008 and 22 August 2008, Kevin James Christopher Steele, 50, ...
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Criminal procedure
Admissibility – Confessions – Theft – Trial within a trial R v Bhavna Dhorajiwala: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Aikens, Mr Justice Slade, Judge Wadsworth QC): 9 June 2010 The ...
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Will rising student debt lead to a 'lost generation' of solicitors?
Lawyers unite on 3 July to join the Pride London Parade, celebrating and promoting diversity in the profession. It is just 15 years since the Law Society added sexual orientation to its code of practice in respect of discrimination, which illustrates just how contemporary the diversity debate remains in so ...
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National disgrace
On 16 June Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ), one of the largest legal aid providers in the UK for refugees and migrants, went into administration because of cashflow problems caused by a legal aid contracting regime which prevents us from billing our work in progress until the closure of cases.
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Unethical earnings
The commercial debate about referral fees overlooks one simple fact – a referral fee is the purchase price for a client.
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The law regarding entrapment
The law is unclear as to how much protection is afforded to those entrapped by undercover journalists into committing criminal offences, says David Sleight
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Three Lions on a skive - did you let your staff watch the football?
Apologies for trespassing on this space – not normally my domain. But I am curious. This afternoon saw the latest instalment of what we at the Gazette have dubbed ‘Carry On England’, a quadrennial tale of preening dilettantes and music-hall slapstick that always seems to end with John Bull weeping ...
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Immigration
Asylum – Ethiopia – Persecution – Refugees Secretary of State for the Home Department v St (Eritrea): CA (Civ Div): (Sir Anthony May (president QB), Lords Justices Longmore, Stanley Burnton)9 June 2010 ...
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Memory Lane
Law Society’s Gazette, June 1970 Editorial With Election ’70 in full blast – or should we say full ...