All News articles – Page 1749
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Journalists in family courts
At a rough guess, of the 150-odd people who packed out Chancery Lane’s reading room last night to discuss the Ministry of Justice’s plans to admit journalists into family courts, 149 think it a bad idea. And the one who is in principle in favour (me) has strong reservations about ...
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China – a dilemma
China admits to having executed 1,718 of its citizens in 2008, according to a report just published by Amnesty International. That’s 72% of the 2,390 executions recorded worldwide.
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Logo bill is a sign of the times
Late last year [2008, Gazette, 20 November, 3], the Lord Chancellor’s Department revealed the logo for the new Supreme Court. Readers with an interest in heraldry will recall its emblematic depiction of the UK’s three jurisdictions embraced by a symbol representing both Libra and omega. Now the Tories’ Dominic Grieve ...
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Professional managers must be accepted into law firms, and fast
Given that the Code of Conduct now requires law firms to have in place a proper management structure, how well is this really being accepted? And how well is this being implemented?
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The state we’re in
So there you have it. MPs have voted in favour of holding some inquests in secret, after a string of heavily spun ‘concessions’ from the government. This is either another nail in the coffin of a free society or a matter of supreme indifference to all but a self-selecting cadre ...
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Show us the proof government can handle our data legally
A study commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform trust has lobbed a legal hand grenade into the government’s stated ambition to look after us better with the help of bigger and more joined up computer databases. According to the report, the Database State, nearly a quarter of the government’s biggest ...
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Does your firm need a viral ad?
I knew the Arctic Monkeys had gone utterly mainstream the morning I heard a package on their success via online word-of-mouth marketing on Radio 4’s Today programme.
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Let Lord Laming have his way
Surely it should be obvious that if you put up the cost of something you put people off buying it? Economists see this as the absolute basis of economics – the use of incentives to deter and encourage. How Whitehall, then, thought making child care cases up to 2,500% more ...
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Calm down dear, it’s only a new world of conversations
It seems that so far our brave new world for the Gazette, of blogging and user commenting, is working a treat – our visitor numbers are up and people are reading for longer and seeing more pages when they turn up.
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Saying the right things
Few lawyers can name the eight official branches of the legal profession – solicitor, barrister, legal executive, licensed conveyancer, trademark attorney, patent agent, notary and costs lawyer/draftsman – but juggling their different demands and needs is one of the many tasks facing the Legal Services Board.
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Manchester is making the most of the recession
Manchester University recently lost to an Oxford college in a hard-fought final of University Challenge, but there was a silver lining; the result was overturned after one of the Oxford ‘students’ was discovered to be a trainee accountant. The city’s legal market is experiencing equally mixed fortunes. Like everywhere else ...
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Mission to open the legal services market in Ukraine
City law firms and British government officials will travel to Ukraine next month to try to boost the presence of English firms in Europe’s largest country. The mission, scheduled for the end of April, will include delegates from 10 City firms and officials from UK ...
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Lawyers' long march triumphs in Pakistan
Pakistan’s lawyer-led long march demanding the reinstatement of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry withstood baton charges, tear gas attacks and mass arrests, a British solicitor told the Gazette from Lahore. Razi Shah, a partner at Berkshire firm Appleby Shaw and a Law Society council member, said ...
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Random justice?
Julian Young is entitled to feel mightily pleased with himself this morning (see this week’s Lawyer In The News).
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Insolvency
Data protection – Serious fraud cases – Transfer of data in the public interest In the matter of Madoff Securities International Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice Lewison): 27 February 2009
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Insolvency
Data protection – Serious fraud cases – Transfer of data in the public interest In the matter of Madoff Securities International Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice Lewison): 27 February 2009 ...
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Get involved, get posting
Now you can have your say on the Gazette website, as Gazette online now includes blogs and the facility for visitors to add their comments to news stories and blog entries. We are making space for more of your letters, as well as a News blog, ...
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Mind games
In these difficult times, at last some good news. A chap called Steven Pearce writes to tell us that redundancy isn’t so much the end of employment but the beginning of the chance to bounce back in life. In fact, Pearce, who describes himself as a business coach, has written ...
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Family law
Care – Children – Committal for contempt – Penal notices Re PB (children) sub nom a local authority v (1) HP (2) MB: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Wall, Moore-Bick): 27 February 2009 ...