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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hello, new world
Starting a new blog is always tense – it’s a bit like jumping off a high board at the swimming pool, in that you know it’ll get easier afterwards, but you also know that if you get it wrong, it will hurt, and probably quite a lot.
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Lawyers won't play ball on audit caps
In promoting the benefits of deregulation and global free trade, this week’s report from the Professional Services Global Competitiveness Group sounds a discordant note.
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Employment law: accrual of annual leave and sickness absence
For the modern solicitor it has become essential to develop the ability not only to be all things to all people, but also to be in many different places at the same time.
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Straw's bogus panaceas hide a failure to invest
Gazette readers have reacted furiously to Jack Straw’s provocative assertions about the future of legal aid, as my postbag attests.
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Litigation funder seeks an extra £35 million
The only UK-listed third-party litigation funder is raising a further £35m, in part because it says other funders have fallen away with the downturn. Juridica Investments, in Guernsey, raised £80m when it launched on the Alternative Investment Market in December 2007, but says it requires more ...
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Firms’ network forms alliance with accountants
The prospect of solicitors joining other professionals in one-stop shops for clients with issues that cross disciplinary boundaries has come a step closer with an alliance between law firms and accountants. LawNet, a national network of mid-tier firms set up in 1989, has formed a collaborative ...
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Alarm at Jobcentre Plus advertisement rule
Law firms and other employers sponsoring recruits from outside the European Economic Area have condemned as ‘political’ the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) ruling that all vacancies should be advertised in Jobcentre Plus.
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Fund more free advice, urges Tory MP
Emergency funding for free legal advice must be made available to help people suffering in the downturn, Parliament will hear this week. Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire, said she would use an adjournment debate on Tuesday evening to urge the government to provide ...
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Solicitors see estate agents as allies, says survey
Most solicitors see estate agents as collaborators rather than competitors, according to the latest in a regular half-yearly survey of trends in the conveyancing market. The study, the third carried out by property search company Searchflow, found that estate agents are the main source of referrals for nearly a quarter ...
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Straw’s pay warning to legal aid lawyers
Lawyers and law firms dependent on state funding would be ‘wise to reconsider’ their expectations of earnings, the Lord Chancellor has warned. In a stark vision of the future, underlining the government’s determination to press ahead with controversial legal aid reforms, Jack Straw said last ...
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Government amends secret inquest plans
The government is revising plans for non-jury inquests included in the Coroners and Justice Bill, limiting the circumstances in which such inquests can be held. The revisions will allow for more judicial involvement and discretion, offering more balances and checks, the Ministry of Justice said. ...
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Law firms must take a rigorous approach to IT security
Losing data is a business or government’s worst nightmare. From stolen laptops to files that go missing in the post, recent high-profile cases have made us all well aware of the damaging repercussions this can have. For a law firm, information is critical for everything it does – knowledge, advice ...