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Virtual court ‘puts solicitors at risk’
Defence solicitors taking part in pilots of ‘virtual courts’ could be at risk of injury from their clients, practitioners have warned. The concern has arisen because the video equipment to be used in the pilot requires solicitors to sit alongside their client in a modified ...
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ICC's credibility hangs on Palestinian statehood decision
President Obama’s meeting this week with the Israeli prime minister has focused attention on the universal goal of a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside its Jewish neighbour. But there is increasing concern in legal circles that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court risks making the ...
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Why the world's favourite encyclopedia matters
Our article on the top 50 firms and their patchy use of the online resource Wikipedia was huge fun to research, and a little disturbing too.
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Jackson hints on ending recoverability of success fees
Lord Justice Jackson has given his clearest hint yet that he is minded to end the recoverability of success fees when he makes his final recommendations to reform civil litigation costs. Speaking at the Sweet & Maxwell conditional fee agreement conference last week, Jackson asked ...
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Equal footing
I was pleased to read Tim Lawson-Cruttenden’s response to the ‘solicitor bashing’ faced by solicitor-advocates of late (see [2009] Gazette, 14 May, 10). It is about time someone fought their corner.
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Law Society looks to strengthen legal ties with Indian firms
Opportunities for Indian and UK firms to work together will increase as a result of the Indian elections, the Law Society has said ahead of it UK-India legal practice conference. The event, which takes place from 1-5 June, will link up visiting Indian law ...
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Sleep of the just?
Lord Bonomy, a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has a rather forbidding demeanour that befits his calling. This distinguished Scottish judge and criminal prosecutor was one of the headline speakers at the Law Society of Scotland’s 60th anniversary conference, held in Edinburgh a couple of ...
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Memory lane
The Law Society’s Gazette, 12 May 1999 Press round-upIt is still early days for the almost 800-strong solicitor ...
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Review: a sideways look at the workplace
Getting OutSarah Henley Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London
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Negligence
Barristers – Legal advice – Limitations – Professional negligence – Solicitors Pritchard Joyce & Hinds (a firm) v Batcup & anor: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Sedley, Dyson, Sullivan): 5 May 2009 ...
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Pulling power
Lawyers and law students from across north-east England donned their gym kit to take part in the York College of Law’s fourth annual sports day. More than 30 teams, including Eversheds, Olswang, Forsters and Gordons competed in football, netball and rugby tournaments, but the highlight was the ‘tug of law’ ...
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Succession
Assumption of responsibility – Family provision – Wills Baynes v Hedger & ors: CA (Civ Div) (Sir Andrew Morritt (Chancellor), Lords Justice Longmore, Goldring): 7 May 2009 ...
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Hot under the collar over gender equality
The Fawcett Society’s claim that the criminal justice system is ‘institutionally sexist’ is a shocking soundbite, but for many it will not sound a discordant note.
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Why lunch with the partners is good for marketing
One of the firms I work closely with has a fairly rare management quirk for a firm of its size. It provides the partners (and finance director) with lunch each day.
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Law Society condemns best-value tendering pilot
Des Hudson, the Law Society’s chief executive, has added his voice to criticism of plans by the Legal Services Commission to award contracts for legal aid work in police stations by a process of best-value tendering (BVT). In a speech to the Criminal Law Solicitors ...
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Justice minister steps down pending expenses probe
Justice minister Shahid Malik stepped down today amid the furore over MPs’ expenses. This morning, The Daily Telegraph claimed that Malik paid discounted rent at his main home in Dewsbury – which he pays for himself – of less than £100 per week, while at the ...
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Law Society of Scotland 60th anniversary conference: Susskind fires private equity warning
Private equity firms are stepping up their interest in English legal practices as they search for lucrative investment opportunities in a difficult market, according to Professor Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? However, the legal services futurologist warned that law firm owners hoping to ...
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Brought to account
Obiter, who blushes to reclaim a receipted taxi fare, has watched with awed fascination the Daily Telegraph’s exposure of how MPs have worked parliament’s expenses regime. Justice ministers are among those in the spotlight. Justice secretary Jack Straw, ...
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Bar considers action on ‘threat’ posed by solicitor-advocates
The Bar Council has set up a working group to tackle what it calls unfair competition from solicitor-advocates for Crown Court work.
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France sets out agenda for OLC
Improving consumer confidence in the legal profession will be high on the agenda of the first chair of the Office for Legal Complaints, Elizabeth France, as work starts on how the organisation will be run. ‘Change is needed to improve confidence in the system,’ France ...