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Legal aid cuts ‘drive barristers away from family work’
The family bar is ‘close to breaking point’ as repeated legal aid cuts are driving experienced barristers away from their work, leaving vulnerable women and children at risk, according to a study, commissioned by the Bar Council and the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA). The Legal ...
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Estate agency – it's not rocket science
Now is the time for the Law Society and its members to take heed of the advice offered by Peter Morgan in his letter, that ‘we need to embrace property selling’ (see [2009] ...
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Employment tribunal ruling challenges ageism
The first tribunal hearing to deal ‘head on’ with bars to employment based on date of birth has ruled that the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) acted unlawfully in rejecting candidates over 35.
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Eversheds stays top in adviser rankings
National firm Eversheds advises more stock market clients than any other law firm, according to the latest quarterly rankings from investment adviser Hemscott. However, nearly all the firms featured in Hemscott’s rankings saw client numbers fall in the most recent three-month period surveyed. Eversheds topped the ...
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Deaf student launches discrimination action against law school
A deaf would-be law student has begun proceedings against a London law school, alleging disability discrimination on the grounds of ‘unfavourable treatment’ and failure to make ‘reasonable adjustments’.
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SRA considers asking for rethink on voluntary accreditation
The Solicitors Regulation Authority may ask the Law Society Council to reconsider its decision to transfer voluntary accreditation schemes back to Chancery Lane. The Law Society representative body expects to take control of voluntary programmes no later than June after council voted in favour of ...
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Society to host emergency summit on family court media access
The Law Society is to host an emergency summit later this month to air concerns about opening family courts to the media. Under new rules proposed by justice secretary Jack Straw, the media will be able to attend all levels of family courts. Chancery Lane believes admission should only be ...
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White & Case to cut up to 95 in London
US firm White & Case will cut between 80 and 95 fee-earners and support staff in London as part of plans to make 200 associates and 200 support staff redundant worldwide. The firm said today (10 March) that it is also undertaking an ‘evaluation of its ...
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Complaints need careful handling
Practitioners can be forgiven for feeling under the cosh on too many fronts – the recession/depression and the wave of new competition soon to be unleashed by the Legal Services Act are but two urgent challenges. Then, of course, there is the transition to a new system of regulation, which ...
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A tale of two statistics
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – that’s how we read the latest figures on QC awards. Hats off to Baroness Butler-Sloss for putting such a positive spin on the fact that 75% of solicitor applicants were successful – a record high. ...
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Otiose requirements
I am utterly astonished by the content of Ian McLachlan’s letter. Yes, the public do want their homes to be transferred as quickly and cheaply as possible. For that to be achieved they are mainly dependent on money supply, and the needs and wishes of the ...
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New solicitor QC says that more will take silk
Solicitors will increasingly aspire to become Queen’s Counsel, one of three new solicitor silks has predicted. Judith Gill, international arbitration partner at City firm Allen & Overy, who last week became the second female solicitor silk, said: ‘The more solicitors who are successful the more likely it’ll be that others ...
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What’s in a name?
Part of the great pub quiz tradition is thinking up a silly team name. Often in two seconds flat. Usually, it’s safe enough to go for the rude or insulting because no one outside the room will know, and in the room most people are a bit squiffy or being ...
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Memory Lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, February 1939 From the President's address to the Students’ Rooms The law must be ...
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Solicitors network joins forces with Which?
The new high street network QualitySolicitors.com has allied with consumer body Which? in a commercial venture. People logging on to the QualitySolicitors.com website, to go live in April, will see details of the Which? Legal Service telephone advice line. Meanwhile, clients of Which? needing to ...
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Election fever
Never mind Westminster: election fever is already mounting in Chancery Lane, with Monday’s deadline for council members to put themselves forward as candidate to be the Society’s next deputy vice-president. In theory, any council member can put themselves forward by submitting a 250-word ‘statement and disclosure ...
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The ECHR’s ‘realistic’ ruling on unlawful detention
Judgments involving Abu Qatada are a bit like buses: you wait ages for one to turn up and then two come along together. Last Wednesday, the home secretary won her appeal to the House of Lords against a ruling that the radical Muslim cleric could not ...
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'No evidence' for the decline in the quality of justice
Your news item headlined ‘Pushing novice advocates into court "harming justice"’ reported a number of comments made by the chairman of the criminal bar, Peter Lodder QC, in evidence to the Justice Committee (see [2009] Gazette, 12 February, 3).
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Freedom of information - holding data for others
An Ofsted inspection is a worrying time for school staff, students and parents.