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LCS frustrated by Raleys delay
The Legal Complaints Service has offered to continue investigating complaints against Yorkshire law firm Raleys concerning compensation payments to miners, after previously rejecting the advice of its watchdog and refusing to do so. However, the LCS, which suspended investigations in March, stressed that it ...
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Pay gap points to discrimination
Women solicitors earn 29% less than their male colleagues, the Gazette can reveal this week. The Law Society’s latest salary survey showed only a slight narrowing of the pay gap between the sexes compared with the previous year’s figure of 32%. ...
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Questioning the gender divide
So women solicitors are still earning nearly a third less than men, according to Law Society research. Shocking, yes. Surprising, no – we know there is a long way to go. After all, women tend to be newer entrants to the profession with fewer years’ ...
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‘US in stronger position than UK’ to weather downturn
Top US law firms are better placed to weather the downturn than the biggest UK firms, and will be in a better position when the demand for legal services picks up, the head of the world’s biggest firm claimed this week. Eric Friedman (pictured), executive partner ...
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Gazette goes on Facebook
Following our recent extension into the professional social network, LinkedIn and the news snippet service Twitter, the Gazette has now also set up a Facebook page to better connect with the younger profession.
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Consent orders – Foreseeability – Share valuation Martin Robert Walkden v Kim Hazel Walkden: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Thorpe, Wall, Elias): 25 June 2009 The appellant ...
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Whitehall fee regulation ‘political’
Government plans to crack down on the use of contingency fees in employment and other tribunals are politically motivated, it has been alleged. The Ministry of Justice last week published a consultation paper on regulating contingency fees, having inserted a provision in the Coroners and Justice ...
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PC fee increase ‘looks likely’
Solicitors could face an increase in the practising certificate (PC) fee, which is to be discussed later this month, the Gazette understands. Following inquiries from the Gazette, the Law Society confirmed that an increase ‘looks likely’. However, chief executive Des Hudson stressed that any increase ...
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Join the Gazette on Twitter
This week the Gazette launches two new online services on the professional social networking site LinkedIn and news-snippet service Twitter. All the Gazette’s latest news, blogs and In Business content can now be followed on Twitter under the handle @lawsocgazette. Twitter is ...
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Whistleblowing plans to safeguard public interest issues
Government proposals on whistleblowing will ensure that public interest issues are not lost in drawn-out employment tribunal cases, a leading charity said today. Under plans set out by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, information about claims made under whistleblowing legislation which comes to light ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, 12 July 1989 Project 1992 – doing nothing could prove costlySolicitors are getting the message that 1992 [the year the single European market becomes ...
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Stockholm on my mind
The Queen has been reigning since before I was born (I know it doesn’t look like that from my photo), but here in Brussels we chant ‘the president is dead! Long live the president!’ every six months. We have just seen the end of the unmourned Czech presidency of the ...
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Mobile prone
It’s fair to say that lawyers are not known for their love of technology. While most (but possibly not all) have moved on from quill and parchment, some may say they are still several decades behind the more trendy sectors when it comes to technological advances. The humble mobile phone ...
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Real property
Excavation – Nuisance – Party walls – Surveyors Christine Reeves v Beatrice Blake: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Moses, Etherton): 24 June 2009 The appellant (R) appealed against ...
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No way to treat a client – especially if you are the client
Can you imagine this scenario in your firm? Client: Please could you change the way in which you write letters of claim on my behalf? You send them to me for approval and I have to keep changing the ...
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SRA takes on new powers to issue £2,000 fine for low-level misconduct
Solicitors could face a fine of up to £2,000 and a published rebuke for low-level professional misconduct under new rules which will come into force in August. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has adopted powers to issue written rebukes and impose a fine where it considers there ...
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Ashurst partner pay falls below £1m
Partner pay at City firm Ashurst has plunged below the £1m mark, after the firm today reported a 35% fall in profits. Profits per equity partner fell from £1.04m in 2007/08 to £673,000 in the year to 30 April 2009. Revenues fell 7%, from £323m to ...