All News articles – Page 1774
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Old World countries must try harder on human rights
Britain should take steps to ban complicity in torture, the most senior elected official at Europe’s largest representative body said in London this week. I don’t suppose the government was too worried. It would be cruel to say that Terry Davis is not a household ...
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International environmental court plan
A new International Court for the Environment, with powers to compensate victims of environmental damage and punish the perpetrators, has been proposed by a coalition of lawyers, politicians, environmentalists and non-governmental organisations. Stephen Hockman QC, who convened a meeting last week to get the project under ...
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Marketing matters: why standing out from the crowd is important
With the recession apparently settling in for the long haul and law firms feeling the pinch, it is unsurprising that many are looking hard at what cuts can be made to outgoings to maximise dwindling profit margins and ensure as many jobs as possible are saved. One might be tempted ...
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Employment
Employment status – Limited liability partnerships - Members M Kovats v (1) TFO Management LLP (2) The Family Group of Companies: EAT (Mr Justice Birtles, T Motture, D Welch): 21 April 2009 ...
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New provider to enter PII market
The single renewal date of 1 October is not the only cause of last year’s problems with professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewals, the chairman of the Law Society’s PII working group stressed this week. Nigel Day, a partner at Manchester firm Hague Lambert, said: ‘It’s ...
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Ethics must be entrenched in a solicitor’s training
When I opened the Law Society’s Leadership Summit in February, I called for a debate on the future of the profession to spring up across the country. I repeated that call a few days later in the Gazette.
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In the Hunt for fresh ideas
Lord Hunt’s preliminary report on legal regulation is almost worth reading for its flamboyant and elegant prose alone. How often in documents of this type does one come across coinages such as ‘omphaloskepsis’ (‘navel-gazing’). We suspect a classical education. More seriously, the Gazette urges every solicitor ...
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Which political party gets your vote on human rights?
All three major political parties have recently showcased their human rights and civil liberties credentials at the British Institute of Human Rights in London. First up was the Tory Nick Herbert MP, who explained the party’s plans to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA) and replace it with a Bill ...
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Lord Hunt outlines vision for regulation
The peer tasked by Chancery Lane with reviewing legal regulation says that only ‘minor’ adjustments to the Law Society’s internal governance may be required to yield ‘enormous benefit’ for the regulation of law firms. Lord Hunt of Wirral wants to see a system of regulation emerge ...
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Staging an Inquest
Death-in-custody group Inquest is hosting Q&A sessions after two performances of the Chickenshed Theatre Company’s As the Mother of a Brown Boy this month. The production, ‘a moving and powerful piece, using dance, physical theatre, live music and multimedia to present an extraordinary story of injustice, identity and love’, was ...
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Memory lane
Possible improvements to the Poor Persons Procedure and a critique on the implementation of technology in office procedures. The Law Society’s Gazette May 1939 ...
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SOCA ‘motoring’ on money laundering prevention
A solicitor figured among 67 criminals charged with money laundering following investigations by the Serious Organised Crime Agency last year, according to the agency’s annual report, published today. Stuart Creggy, former magistrate and senior partner at Mayfair law firm Talbot Creggy, pleaded guilty to a charge ...
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A misunderstanding
One of the pitfalls of editorial control over letters is that sometimes the nub is removed so that the printed remnants are misunderstood. That is what happened to my letter that you printed on 17 April. In the version I sent to you I said, in relation to the letter ...
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Movers and shakers
Staff from the Manchester office of national firm Simpson Millar are setting out once again to prove that big is beautiful – if it not necessarily fast. They are donning sumo suits to wobble along the tarmac in the 10k Bupa Great Manchester Run on 17 May, to raise £2,000 ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment for public protection – Indecent photographs of children – Risk of re-offending R v Robert Lwellyn Hicks: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Blake, Mr Justice Burnett): 21 April 2009 ...
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Human rights lawyers expose violence against their Colombian counterparts
Sara Chandler is director of pro bono services at the College of Law, and is the Law Society Council member for the voluntary sector, and a member of the Law Society’s International Human Rights ...
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New president sets out 10-step plan
The new president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has hit out at insurance solicitors who, he says, fight the conditional fees ‘costs war’ from the ‘comfort zone of risk-free retainers’.
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50% tax rise will raise £150M from City partners alone
Equity partners at the UK’s 10 biggest law firms will each pay on average £100,000 extra a year to help bail the government out of deficit, Gazette research suggests. Chancellor Alistair Darling’s new 50% income tax bracket, which comes in to force in April 2010, will raise £150m from City ...
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Reforms to the Local Transport Act 2008 will create more work for lawyers
The humble bus is about to drive through a number of new avenues for litigation, following enactment of the Local Transport Act 2008. Traffic commissioners, most of whom were originally solicitors, will gain wider powers to fine operators who run unsafe vehicles, to impound the offending ...
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Data page for April 2009
The data page is the financial rates and data compiled for the Law Society Gazette by MoneyFacts Group, the UK's largest supplier of savings and mortgage data. Downloads Download the ...