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Government: local authority mutual insurance companies
Pity really, everyone was having such a wonderful time. It was, as the saying goes, a swell party and one designed to save lots of money. But then, all of a sudden, there was a raid: the front door was kicked in, the music stopped and everyone had to go ...
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Top City firms look to banks to cover further redundancy payouts
Top City firms are preparing for a possible second wave of job cuts by making sure they have secured adequate lines of credit from banks to cover further redundancy payouts, according to one of the sector’s major lenders. Meanwhile, mid-tier law firms are being squeezed ...
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Bar Standards Board opens door to joint practices
Barristers and solicitors will be able to go into practice together as a first step on the post-Clementi road, following a historic meeting of the Bar Standards Board last night. The board met to consider recommendations from its working group on alternative business structures to determine ...
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Whistleblowing proposals could give ‘improper bargaining power’ to claimants
Government proposals on whistleblowing could give ‘improper bargaining power’ to claimants and allow serious allegations to escape investigation, employment lawyers have warned. Under proposals contained in a Department for Business Innovation & Skills consultation, whistleblowing claimants would be able to decide whether the employment tribunal should ...
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Solicitors blamed for delays in conveyancing process
Homebuyers and sellers have blamed solicitors more than estate agents for delays during the conveyancing process, according to research published by the Office of Fair Trading. The consumer watchdog published four reports undertaken as part of its market study into home buying and selling. One showed ...
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Who is really writing this blog?
All the other bloggers are revealing their true identities, so why shouldn’t I? Here goes: I only pretend to be a journalist working on the Gazette. All that stuff I write about employment law and personal injury and mental health and lawyers in local government. It’s not the real me.
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Lawyers praise ‘brave new world’ for mental health
Mental health lawyers have welcomed the publication of a government plan to support people with mental health problems in the criminal justice system. The government published its five-year delivery plan last week for implementing the Bradley Report’s 82 recommendations for improving the way people with mental ...
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Jack Straw urges magistrates to keep cases in own court
Justice secretary Jack Straw has called on magistrates to deal with more cases themselves rather than sending them on to the Crown court. Speaking at the Magistrates’ Association conference in Birmingham, Straw noted that the number of cases in the magistrates’ court fell by 9% in ...
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Criminal procedure
Assumptions – Breath samples – Driving while over the limit – Newton hearings Thomas Goldsmith v Director of Public Prosecutions: DC (Lord Justice Sullivan, Mr Justice Openshaw): 4 November 2009 ...
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Private equity investors focus on legal sector
Private equity investors are becoming much more interested in doing deals with law firms, a report on the Legal Services Act 2007 launched today has revealed. A study by public relations company Byfield Consultancy, in association with law firm Fox Williams, shows that private investors ...
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Legal ethics – past and present
In the first of three articles for lawgazette.co.uk tracing the history of ethics and the legal profession, Mark Humphries describes the origins of legal ethics and how medieval regulation addressed the same issues that arise in modern-day practice
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Silverbeck Rymer faces six-figure repayment to former miners
Liverpool firm Silverbeck Rymer could repay more than £100,000 to former miners after being rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for its handling of their government compensation claims. Partners James and Charles Rymer were reprimanded by the SRA for deducting £117,000 in total from 189 miners’ ...
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Office of Fair Trading probes insolvency lawyers' fees
Fees paid to insolvency lawyers are set to come under scrutiny by the Office of Fair Trading after the competition watchdog launched a probe into corporate insolvency. The City of London Law Society’s insolvency committee was due to convene to discuss the OFT’s market study as ...
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Lend us a hand
After completion some lenders require the mortgage deed to be deposited with the Land Registry (eg The Mortgage Works), while others require the mortgage deeds themselves (eg NatWest).
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Personal injury
Duty of care – Findings of fact – Football Andrew Kerr v GED Willis: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Neuberger (master of the rolls), Mr Justice Smith, Lord Justice Toulson): 4 November 2009 ...
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Kiss and tell
Judges’ speeches are not generally known for their racy content. But an address by Mr Justice Eady to the University of Hertfordshire last week seemed to contain more sex than an average night at one of the university’s halls of residence.
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, November 1959 Mr Barrington Myers wrote to the Gazette in October 1959 asking how to explain the work of a solicitor to ...
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Solicitor laureate?
As if Obiter needed any convincing about the poetic abilities of Solicitors of the Supreme Court, Mike Redpath, a self-employed solicitor in Salisbury has – quite out of the blue – sent us this little topical ditty. ...
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Leaner is meaner
Who could have predicted that a few dodgy collateralised debt obligations would set in motion a train of events that would eventually lead to a shortage of junk food in City law firm offices?
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Movember
Notice any similarities between these lawyers from Gerrards Cross firm BP Collins? Yes, they are all chaps in suits, but look harder. Sharp-eyed observers will note that they are all sporting various degrees of facial hair. A Buckinghamshire fashion trend, you wonder? Nope, along with menfolk across the globe (and ...