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New scheme to target personal injury claims
A new national legal partnership, Loyalty Law, is set to launch next month to generate personal injury leads for high-street firms, the Gazette can reveal. Around 30 firms have already signed up to ...
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Time for a ‘meetings tsar’?
One of the things I don’t miss since leaving partnership is the endless round of meetings. Partners’ meetings, departmental meetings, team meetings, one-to-one meetings, the list goes on. Were they all necessary? Did they always achieve something?
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The law is about quality not nationality
The news grows worse in the eurozone. The tardiness of leaders to come to the rescue of Greece has made a crisis for all of us, and leads me to think about the role of nationality in the EU, with a particular focus on how it plays out in the ...
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Capture conflict
‘It is in everyone's interests to have a low cost system,’ a director of the Association of British Insurers told the annual conference of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Gazette news, 29 April, 4). Like most people, I do want to believe what I am told by people who ...
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Co-op launches new service for insurers
Co-operative Legal Services has today launched a ‘one-call accident management service’ for brokers and insurers in a bid increase its motor claims work. The new service will offer the full range of services – legal and non-legal – needed to resolve claims following a road traffic ...
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Forgotten group disadvantaged by PC fee
I write regarding your opinion piece of 24 April headlined ‘PC fee proposal falls flat’.
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Lawyers sceptical over latest IT rollout by LSC
Criminal law solicitors have expressed concerns over the Legal Services Commission’s track record on IT projects as it began a phased national rollout of its new electronic criminal billing and claim forms this month. The new eForms are part of the LSC’s delivery transformation programme, designed ...
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Public fails to chart financial assets in wills
Nearly three-quarters of the British public do not have a will that clearly charts their financial assets, research has revealed. Some 73% of Britons have not documented financial assets such as pension plans and life insurance policies in their wills, a YouGov survey of 2,384 adults, ...
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Can the middle classes be persuaded to seek more compensation?
There is an awful lot of talk just now about threats to solicitors’ business, particularly in commoditised areas like personal injury.
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FTSE-100 group attacks ECJ ruling on Akzo Nobel appeal
The group that represents in-house counsel at FTSE 100 companies has attacked a preliminary ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on legal privilege rights for in-house lawyers as illogical and ‘flawed’. The GC100 said it was ‘very disappointed’ by advocate general Juliane Kokott’s opinion ...
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Spike in mergers predicted in 2010
The year ahead is likely to see a spike in mergers and team hires among the top 100 law firms, with 20% looking to expand overseas, according to research published this week. Sweet & Maxwell’s annual survey of law firm finance directors reveals that 40% of ...
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APIL urges government to increase access to compensation
The next government must provide injured workers with enhanced access to compensation, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) said as a government consultation, Accessing Compensation, closed today. APIL urged the incoming government to ensure that plans laid down by the Department for Work and Pensions ...
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The bar has ambitious plans for capitalising on changes
The bar has been criticised for being slow to respond to the opportunities presented by the Legal Services Act. Indeed, some solicitors may have been lulled into a false sense of security by its apparent inertia. Barristers have never been greatly renowned for their managerial or ...
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‘Gold-plating’ of anti-bribery legislation threatens competitiveness of UK business
by Jason Mansella barrister at 7 Bedford Row Chambers, London, specialising in white-collar crime and Financial Services Authority litigation No one would argue that before 2010 the UK’s anti-corruption legislation was not archaic and inadequate. Piecemeal attempts to make the old law fit for purpose through ...
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Employment Appeal Tribunal: ‘Job applications must be genuine’
A litigant who brought age discrimination claims against 20 recruitment agencies has lost an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) on the grounds that she had no genuine interest in the vacancies for which she had applied. The EAT said the judgment could serve as ...
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Quinn Group considers selling insurance arm
Quinn Insurance, the Irish insurer currently in administration, looks destined to be sold following a statement from its parent company Quinn Group issued last week. Quinn Group said it had concluded that it ‘should consider selling Quinn Insurance’ in the interests of Quinn Insurance employees and ...
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Ass you like it
‘Quite frankly, I don’t have all that many clients who call me sweetie.’ That was solicitor Frank Presland’s explanation of why he accepted the job as Sir Elton John’s business manager. It’s a sentiment with which Obiter can sympathise. But then there is much in Ronald Irving’s anthology of legal ...
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(Bad) dream team
Sick as a parrot Des. We was robbed! So wailed tearful money laundering supremo (sic) Omar ‘pimp my manager’ Choudhury (below right) coach of the Law Society Academicals, following Chancery Lane’s (close) season-opener against City slickers White & Case.
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Barristers could have right to sue solicitors for unpaid fees
Barristers would be able to sue solicitors for unpaid fees under proposals published by the Bar Council last week to put the relationship between the two professions on a more commercial footing. The consultation proposes the introduction of new legally binding contractual terms to govern the ...
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Law Society seeks to block privilege for non-lawyers
The Law Society has been granted permission to intervene in a Court of Appeal case that could see legal professional privilege (LPP) extended to non-lawyers. In his High Court judgment in Prudential v Special Commissioner of Income Tax and Philip Pandolfo (HM Inspector of Taxes) in ...