All News articles – Page 1813
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Marriage vetting plan criticised
British Muslim lawyers have criticised plans to vet marriages between UK nationals and overseas partners for signs of coercion as misguided and overly intrusive. The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) claimed last week that more than 70% of marriages between UK citizens and nationals from the Asian sub-continent ...
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Criminal law
By Anthony Edwards, TV Edwards, London Guidance on offences taken into consideration ...
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Criminal procedure
Conspiracy to defraud – defects – execution – powers of entry – search and seizure – search warrants – lawfulness of issue and execution – football clubs
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Court napping
I have just seen the most amazing document. It is a Central London County Court order, dated 11 November 1993, following an application dated 10 November 1993. Contrast this with recent experience. In the same court, an application for a consent order was filed ...
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Counselling the council
Local authority legal departments run a tight ship but continue to prosper, argues Suzanne Bond
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Senior judge set to review costs system
The Master of the Rolls is to appoint a senior judge to conduct a root-and-branch review of the costs system, the Gazette has learned.
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LSC trumpets rise in contract take-up
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) last week claimed that an upturn in the number of criminal legal aid contracts is evidence that practitioners still believe publicly funded work is 'profitable'. A total of 1,799 firms across 2,333 offices have been awarded the 18-month criminal contract, an 8% ...
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Concern over 'heavy handed' SRA visits
By Anita Rice The president of the Liverpool Law Society is canvassing 366 member firms on the quality of routine ...
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Legal Complaints Service slams 'unjustified' fine
By Neil Rose The Legal Complaints Service (LCS) has hit back at the decision to fine the Law Society £275,000 ...
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Men's club
I am writing to respond to the lady whose letter 'cheap labour' was published in last week's Gazette (see [2008] Gazette, 29 May, 11). I am sorry she is disillusioned by the legal profession, but amazed at her naivety. Has this evidently intelligent woman not realised that the legal profession ...
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Cheap labour
It was with a sense of irony that I read the article in last week's Gazette regarding the pay gap between ethnic minority, female and male solicitors, and the fact that the Law Society has begun a campaign to end the pay differential (see [2008] Gazette, 22 May, 1).
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Metropolitan Police documentation charges
Charges for the provision by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) of copy documentation in civil proceedings have been reviewed for 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009.
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Family law solicitors 'will gain' from fee changes
The legal aid minister has claimed that family law solicitors will benefit from fee changes that will see barristers' rates cut, in an interview with the Gazette.
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Law firms target diverse supply chain
A number of top law firms are seeking membership of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK), the not-for-profit organisation that links large private sector businesses with ethnic minority businesses, according to its director Mayank Shah. His comments come after national firm Eversheds became the first law firm to ...
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BSB complaints system streamlined
Barristers will be able to opt to have allegations of professional misconduct handled without a formal hearing under a new streamlined complaints system to be introduced by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). The move is just one of the changes to be made to the bar's complaints and ...
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Bridging the divide
Inequality in the workplace is unacceptable, but change cannot happen overnight, says Andrew Holroyd The publication of our salary survey led to many headlines, not least in the Gazette, about the pay gap between black and ethnic minority solicitors, and women solicitors and their white male counterparts. While ...
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Building bridges
Lawyers fear the law commission's drive to step outside the courts in housing disputes will undermine the justice system, reports Grania Langdon-Down Aproposal by the Law Commission that a significant number of housing disputes should be transferred from county courts to tribunals prompted such hostility from ...
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Breeding confidence
I am the solicitor quoted in Peter Williamson's piece 'Doing the right thing' (see [2008] Gazette, 12 June, 15). I welcome the openness of his response, as chairman of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), to the spate of criticisms of the ways in which the SRA sometimes conducts its investigation ...