All News articles – Page 1833
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Human rights
Conditions – Control orders – Freedom of thought, conscience and religion – Deprivation of liberty Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP: QBD (Admin) (Mr Justice Keith): 12 August 2008 The court was required to determine ...
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Personal injury
Football – Future loss – Loss of chance – Loss of earnings – Sportspersons – Wages Benjamin Collett v (1) Gary Smith (2) Middlesbrough Football and Athletics Company (1986) Ltd: QBD (Manchester) (Mrs Justice Swift): 11 August 2008 ...
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Intellectual property
Contracts – Artistic works – Copyright – Film industry – Foreign copyright protection (1) Lucasfilm Ltd (2) Star Wars Productions Ltd (3) Lucasfilm Entertainment Co Ltd v (1) Andrew Ainsworth (2) Shepperton Design Studios Ltd (2008): Ch D (Mr ...
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Married to the job
Love is most definitely all around at Lancashire firm Scott Rees & Co, where two solicitor couples are about to tie the knot. Lawyers Karla Kingston, 29, and Chris Connor, 25 (left) even got engaged on the same day – Saturday 19 July – as colleagues Lucie Illingworth, 26, and ...
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MoJ widens judicial pool
The government has decided that legal executives will not be entitled to sit as judges on the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT), but can apply for other judicial appointments following a consultation earlier this year. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) accepted representations from CAT, the Lord Chief ...
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Short & sweet ruminations on the law
The Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction series is nearing its 200th volume and Raymond Wacks, emeritus professor of law and legal theory at the University of Hong Kong, has been given the challenging task of adding law to a collection which already includes Kafka, De Sade, feminism and the ...
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Thumbs-up for mediation pilot
Employment lawyers have given the thumbs-up to a judicial mediation pilot and called for it to be available in tribunals across England and Wales. Results of a survey carried out by the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) revealed that the majority (78%) of the 123 respondents who ...
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Training need?
I noted with interest the report of ‘shoddy’ phone advice given to bail defendants (see [2008] Gazette, 31 July, 2). I thought the Gazette might like to hear of a case I had recently. A youth client had been arrested for breach of pre-charge bail conditions, ...
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Sitting pretty in pink
The vexed issue of how judges should be attired remains the subject of a colourful debate. So it’s pink! That’s the colour to be worn in court by High Court masters, Family Division district judges, bankruptcy registrars and costs judges when they don their new robes ...
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Uneasy riders
Spandex-sporting solicitor Paul Mulderrig described it as ‘no mean feat for a borderline-fit guy who won’t be getting back on the saddle any time soon.’ The managing director of north-west firm Mulderrigs was referring to the 140 miles he had just cycled to help raise ...
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Six-week wait
I have been following the Gazette’s coverage of court delays. You may be interested to hear of a letter sent to solicitors on 14 August by Northampton County Court concerning arrears, which are now said to be 31 working days in some areas of work.
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Plan of action
An assessment of Whitehall’s latest attempt to reform planning law, which features a controversial ‘one-stop-shop’ consent regime After several years wrestling with the question of developing a suitable regime to speed up the delivery of major infrastructure, the government has finally brought forward its proposals ...
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Legal action in the world of education
Solicitors play a major role on both sides when it comes to securing places in schools for children with special needs. For a section of the media, litigation against colleges, schools and universities has in recent years become another frontier of the so-called compensation culture. ...
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Legal aid recovery threat
A six-figure claim lodged against a solicitor seven years after he gave up practice has raised the spectre of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) aggressively recouping historic legal aid funding, despite a partial amnesty agreed earlier this year. The commission has launched a High Court ...
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MoJ on alert over unregulated firm
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking help in tracking down a claims-handling company that may have based itself overseas in a bid to avoid regulation, amid warnings that solicitors who take referrals from the company could face sanctions.
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Another coal porter
Obiter hears tell of another former Bevin Boy turned solicitor whose studies were interrupted because he was, like Robert Benjamin (see Obiter, 7 August), conscripted to work in Britain’s coal mines during World War Two. John Hostettler, an 83-year-old ...
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Care applications fall sparks safety fears
Applications for child care and supervision orders have plummeted by 25% since councils were forced to bear the full cost of court fees, prompting fears that vulnerable children are being inappropriately placed with relatives instead, the Gazette can reveal. Just 1,611 applications were made by councils ...
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Cartel case approaches
An innovative model for funding ‘risk-free’ group actions against business cartels could have its first court blooding this autumn, the scheme’s originators said this week. ‘Cartel Key’, launched by collective claimant specialist Cohen Milstein Hausfeld Toll and insurers FirstAssist Legal Protection, will remove a deterrent ...
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Arbitration
Conflict of laws – International law – Attachment orders – Expropriation – Freezing injunctions E.T.I. Euro Telecom International NV v (1) Bolivia (2) Empresa Nacional De Telecomunicaciones Entel SA CA: (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Tuckey, Lawrence Collins, Stanley ...
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AWS to canvass members over pay gap
The Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) is to survey all 17,700 of its members in an attempt to identify why female solicitors are paid less than their male counterparts, the Gazette has learned. The Law Society’s Strategic Research Unit pay survey, published in May, revealed that ...