All News articles – Page 1732
-
News
Family law
Children – Discretion – Residence orders Re R (a child ) sub nom CP v (1) AR (2) CR (a child by his guardian): CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Wall, Wilson): 29 April 2009 ...
-
News
Internet publication and freedom of expression
The long-standing principle of ‘publish and be damned’ is jealously guarded by the media. But when it comes to publications on the internet, a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) shows that those who publish there may find themselves being damned for ever and a day.
-
News
Solving sell-to-rent-back issues with proprietary estoppel
The doctrine of proprietary estoppel may help clients who sold their house in return for tenancy but have since been given notice to quit.
-
News
Straw drops secret inquest plans
Plans to hold secret inquests without juries have been dropped by the government, justice secretary Jack Straw told parliament today. Straw said in a written statement that the move to introduce non-jury inquests on national security issues did not garner enough support among the parties. Clauses ...
-
News
Quick on the draw
Obiter has received two more entries for the coveted title of ‘fastest lawyer in the land’.
-
News
Doctor in profit
Derek Peedell casts light on a substantial issue in the governance of the NHS (see [2009] Gazette, 7 May, 11). GPs are publicly funded to meet the entire cost of the provision of GP services to their NHS patients.
-
News
Direct criticism
John Sirodcar makes reference to my review of certain CDS Direct files (see [2009] Gazette, 7 May, 11). He attributes a quote to me which is not in fact entirely correct.
-
News
Criminal justice system ‘institutionally sexist’
Women suffer widespread discrimination at all levels of the criminal justice system, including in the legal profession and judiciary, according to a report launched at the Law Society today by equality campaigners the Fawcett Society.
-
News
Research shows mentally ill more likely to be victims of crime
Adults with severe mental health problems are almost 25% more likely to be victims of crime than the general population, a report commissioned by the Ministry of Justice has revealed.
-
News
QualitySolicitors demonstrate outside Royal Courts of Justice
QualitySolicitors.com, the legal marketing brand, marked its launch this week with a symbolic demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice against the prospect of supermarkets offering legal services – so called ‘Tesco law’. Participants shouted ‘Say no to Tesco law’ and handed out cans of ...
-
News
Counting the costs
It is hard to know where to start with Lord Justice Jackson’s gargantuan preliminary report on civil litigation costs. If nothing else, it is as comprehensive a review of the current problems as one could hope to have.
-
News
Council replaces legal post with head of corporate governance
A county council is replacing the role of head of legal and democratic services with a head of corporate governance as part of a series of measures to make £1.4m in efficiency savings. The move, by Northamptonshire County Council, is likely to attract widespread interest ...
-
News
Hunt condemns unregulated legal services providers
The peer tasked by Chancery Lane with reviewing legal regulation has hit out at what he described as the ‘great unwashed’ – unregulated advisers who provide services that solicitors ‘are much better qualified to provide’. Lord Hunt of Wirral was speaking in Manchester ...
-
News
Law Society warning over Registry’s early completion plan
Land Registry plans to streamline the completion process will increase solicitors’ costs and make conveyancing less efficient, the Law Society has warned. The new ‘early completion’ practice applies where an application for a discharge of whole has been received along with other applications, but ...
-
News
Jackson proposes Commercial Court cost reforms
Costs rules for high-value complex commercial cases could be amended after the judge in charge of a wide-ranging review of civil litigation costs opened the door for reforms. Despite opposition from the Commercial Court Users Committee (CCUC), which is carrying out its own review of ...
-
News
Collaborative regulation is required for the corporate sector
Regulation in the City of London has hardly been out of the headlines for some months – most notably in relation to financial regulation, but also in relation to the legal sector. One of the SRA’s key tasks over the next few months is to ensure that we have the ...
-
News
Closing the gap
I write in response to the comments made by Desmond Browne QC, the chairman of the Bar Council, about the impact of fees on black and minority ethnic (BME) and female lawyers (see [2009] Gazette, 30 April, 3).
-
News
Radical reforms mooted in Jackson civil justice review
Radical reform of civil justice is on the agenda in the wake of Lord Justice Jackson’s preliminary report on costs. Greater use of fixed costs, an end to recoverability, a conditional legal aid fund (CLAF), a crackdown on referral fees and changes to the cost-shifting rule ...
-
News
Chancery Lane steps in to help run migrant lawyer programmes
The Law Society is to help law firms run internship and secondment programmes that were threatened by new immigration rules by launching a scheme for migrant lawyers under Tier 5 (T5) of the points-based system (PBS). As the overarching body for the scheme, the Society will ...
-
News
SharePoint can provide firms with high-end tech for low-end cash
There is a software company that owns solicitors’ desktops. It has the lion’s share of their company email too, and now it wants the rest of their IT business. Microsoft is a brand that needs little introduction, but it is making inroads into areas of law firm IT which were ...