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LSB’s £20m is a drop in the ocean, says Kenny
The £20m set-up costs of the Legal Services Board and Office for Legal Complaints to be paid for by the sector ‘is a not a real issue’, according to LSB chief executive Chris Kenny. Speaking to the Gazette, Kenny (pictured) said that, against the ...
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Top 100 hit by downturn, says Deloitte survey
Fee income at the UK’s top 100 law firms decreased by 4.3% in the quarter ending 30 April 2009) compared with the same period last year, according to business advisory firm Deloitte’s Quarterly Legal Sector Survey. The report, published today, predicts that the quarter’s fall ...
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SRA proposes recovering costs of investigations
Solicitors found guilty of breaking rules could be further hit in the pocket with the cost of investigations doubling under plans put forward by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Changes could be implemented in two phases as the Solicitors Regulation Authority moves towards full cost ...
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Intellectual property
Brand names – Electronic commerce – Infringement – Trademarks (1) L’Oréal SA (2) Lancôme Parfums Et Beauté & Cie (3) Laboratoire Garnier & Cie (4) L’Oréal (UK) Ltd v Ebay International AG & nine ors: (Ch) Ch D ...
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Restraint orders
In an article that appeared in the In Practice section of the Gazette (see [2009] Gazette, 30 April, 16), John Masters questions whether the Crown Prosecution Service has locus standi to apply for a restraint order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002) while a case is still ...
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Personal injury
Court rules – Judgments and orders – Revocation – Settlement Greg Anthony Roult (by his mother and litigation friend Angela Holt) v North West Strategic Health Authority: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Carnwath, Hughes, Lady Justice Smith): 20 ...
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Human rights
Photographs – Police powers and duties – Interface with right to private life Wood v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Laws, Dyson, Lord Collins): 21 May 2009 ...
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High street firms need to proclaim their virtues to survive
Now that I am in the last two months of my presidency, I have started to look forward to returning to my own firm in Surrey and to resume the life that I put on hold three years ago – that of a regular high street solicitor.
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Lunch is for wimps – and law firms?
I’m entering a new phase of life this month – no, I’m not getting a tattoo or joining the Royal Marines, I’m getting married (equally permanent, and just as dangerous).
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Fact is not stranger than fiction
I cannot leave uncorrected certain remarks made by Sir Geoffrey Bindman, solicitor for Amnesty International in the Pinochet case (see [2009] Gazette, 21 May, 9). As is well known, my firm acted for Senator Pinochet.
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Lawyer executives
In last week’s news item ‘Licensed conveyancer made partner’ (see [2009] Gazette, 28 May, 1), there was a reference to ‘legal executives [making] up the other 16 non-lawyer partners’.
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Equity partners’ earnings plummet
Equity partners at top law firms will earn £110,000 less on average this year, early figures have suggested at the outset of the City’s reporting season. To date, the three major firms that have released a figure for profit per equity partner (PEP) have seen a combined average fall of ...
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Eagle promoted at Ministry of Justice
Junior minister Maria Eagle MP, a former solicitor, was today promoted by under-fire prime minister Gordon Brown. Eagle, a parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice since June 2007, was today appointed minister of state at the MoJ, one of several new ministerial ...
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Phil Shiner: top human rights lawyer shows no sign of slowing down
‘We have the most powerful democracy in the world because our state will use public money through legal aid to pay me to take these cases,’ says Phil Shiner, the human rights lawyer as much abused by some in the media as he is revered by his peers.
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Defence solicitors shun pilots of virtual court
Pilots of a ‘virtual court’ enabling defendants to make their first appearance before magistrates by video link have been snubbed by solicitors. Of the 21 firms in Westminster that are eligible to take part in the first 12-month pilot, only 11 have agreed to ...
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Law lords ruling on control orders ‘turning point’ on secret evidence
The House of Lords today ruled that three terror suspects have been denied a ‘fair’ trial because they have not been told about, or allowed to challenge, the secret intelligence evidence against them. The suspects, who cannot be named, have been subject to control orders for ...
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Road works, IT contracts and property rights
Road works: Magic circle firm Linklaters advised 16 commercial banks, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and 15 investment banks on a £6.2bn contract for the M25 motorway. Connect Plus, a consortium of Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Egis Projects and Atkins, will widen the M25 ...
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Sole practitioners condemn SRA risk-assessment plans
Sole practitioners have condemned as ‘outrageous’ and ‘totally intrusive’ plans by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to require commercially sensitive information to carry out risk assessments. SRA head of policy Bronwen Still told the annual general meeting of the Sole Practitioners Group (SPG) that firms ...
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Hot under the collar
After a half a decade studying sexism in the criminal justice system, those doughty campaigners at the Fawcett Society say they have found ‘clear examples of attempts to make female workers fit the male mould’. Quite literally, in the case of some police forces, which have been caught trying to ...