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Unnecessary veto
Joshua Rozenberg asks if the attorney general should have a power of veto over arrests for war crimes (see [2009] Gazette, 9 April, 7). Such a veto over judicial arrest warrants is unnecessary, given that there is no evidence that this power has been misused by the judiciary.
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Star trekker
When Obiter called Paola Fudakowska, solicitor at City firm Withers, she admitted feeling a bit ropey. ‘We had a fundraiser last night – wine-tasting at Vivat Bacchus.’ Such are the hardships one must suffer on the way to Everest base camp. Fudakowska (pictured) is one ...
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Speedy recovery
Last week’s Obiter brought you what was almost undoubtedly history’s longest-running lawsuit – Crown v City of London. (James I issued proceedings in 1613 claiming ownership of Smithfield Market. Judgment was given some 379 years later.)
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Memory lane
A request for manors; how a solicitor won the Grand National and the Gay news blasphemous libel case from the Gazette archives this week. The Law Society’s Gazette, April 1929 ...
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Law Society President on solicitors in the judiciary
‘Yes, I could have been a judge but I never had the Latin, never had the Latin for the judging. I just never had sufficient of it to get through the rigorous judging exams.’
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Insolvency
Landlord and tenant - Business tenancies - Companies - Liquidation Gabriella Shaw v Hazel Doleman: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Stanley Burnton, Elias): 1 April 2009 The appellant ...
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Mistaken identity
It does not follow, as argued in your Opinion column last week, that ‘solicitors are going to be early adopters of the ID infrastructure, whether they like it or not’.
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Interception and surveillance powers to be reined in by Home Office
The home secretary has announced plans to stop local authorities employing covert surveillance techniques for trivial purposes. Jacqui Smith launched a 12-week public consultation to review the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). It will look at ...
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Next generation
As if grown-up clients weren’t trouble enough, staff at City firm Nabarro have taken to working with 14-year-olds. As part of a corporate social responsibility drive, seven volunteers spent a day with 25 pupils at Westminster Academy to teach them how the commercial world works. The ‘Project Business’ programme aims ...
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Worm turns on insurance fraud
The first private contempt of court case against a lying third-party personal injury claimant marks a tipping point for the insurance industry.
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Compromise – Lump sum payments – Shares – Valuation Brian Alan Myerson v Ingrid Diane Myerson: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Sullivan, Lady Justice Smith): 1 April 2009 ...
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KBF executives set up new legal lending firm
Executives behind the Iceland-funded legal lender that collapsed amid last autumn’s banking crisis have launched a new venture, offering a similar service based on what they say is a more robust funding model. Key Business Finance (KBF), which supplied nearly 15% of law firms in ...
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KBF executives set up new legal lending firm
Executives behind the Iceland-funded legal lender that collapsed amid last autumn’s banking crisis have launched a new venture, offering a similar service based on what they say is a more robust funding model. Key Business Finance (KBF), which supplied nearly 15% of law firms in ...
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Women solicitors: still not equal
The Association of Women Solicitors’ submission to Lord Hunt’s regulation review tells an all-too-familiar story. It describes how women remain ‘underrepresented at senior levels despite making up the majority of new entrants into the profession and.... underrepresented in certain practice areas, particularly those which are rewarded more highly’.
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Employment
Company law – Determining employment status of shareholders and directors Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform v (1) Richard Neufeld (2) Keith Howe: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Rix, Toulson, Rimer): 2 April 2009 ...
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Why effective representation in police stations is vital
Ed Cape is a solicitor. If you are a criminal practitioner you will know his name – he is an expert on the role of police station duty solicitors. For many years he practised in the Bristol St Paul’s area.
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LDP disadvantage
The article regarding the introduction of legal disciplinary practices concluded that because only 14 LDPs were up and running on the day the new regime came into force, the profession has ‘snubbed’ the whole idea.
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John Wotton wins Law Society deputy vice-presidential election
John Wotton of magic circle firm Allen & Overy is set to become president of the Law Society in 2011 after this week winning the election for deputy vice-president. Wotton, 54, was a partner at Allen & Overy for 23 years and is now a consultant ...
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Personal injury fraudster found guilty of contempt
In a landmark move against fraudulent personal injury claims, the High Court has found a claimant in contempt of court for exaggerating her injuries. She must now pay her own £125,000 legal bill, a £2,500 fine for contempt and half the defendant’s legal costs.
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Family practitioners condemn the government’s flat-fee proposals
Practitioner groups have condemned as ‘disastrous’ and ‘ill-considered’ proposals to change the way family lawyers are paid, claiming they will leave vulnerable families and children without adequate representation. The Family Justice Council said plans to introduce a fixed-fee advocacy scheme for family legal aid cases from ...