All News articles – Page 1842
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Fox on the gun...
Has legal legend Ronnie Fox finally unveiled the secret of his success as a top partnership law and employment lawyer? Talk about shock tactics. Sadly, Obiter cannot reveal that Ronnie – who runs Fox Lawyers in London – attends meetings with the opposition in a Sherman ...
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Grandee of the law wades in
Lord Woolf has witnessed ‘the transformation of almost every aspect of the legal scene’ For many people, the name Lord Woolf will always be synonymous with the revolutionary reform of the civil court code in the late 1990s: the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR). ...
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Human rights
Asylum seekers - Delay - Immigration policy - Leave to remain - Proportionality EB (Kosovo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2008): HL (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Scott of Foscote, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood): 25 ...
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Human traffic warning
Immigration lawyers must become more ‘victim-focused’ if they are to stop giving unwitting help to human traffickers, a top European lawyer has told the Gazette. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, a lawyer and deputy secretary-general of the Council of Europe, said trafficking could go undetected when practitioners endorsed ...
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Immigration issues
As an immigration consultancy based in Sheffield we recently read with great interest an article published in March concerning the quality of advice for Turkish workers (see [2008] Gazette, 6 March, 4). While we agree that the quality of immigration services is high, we do not ...
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Personal injury
Negligence – Damages – Criminal conduct - Ex turpi causa - Post-traumatic stress disorder Kerrie Francis Gray v (1) Thames Trains Ltd (2) Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (formerly Railtrack Plc) (2008): CA (Civ Div) (Sir Anthony Clarke Master of the Rolls, Lords Justice Tuckey, Smith): ...
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Intellectual property
Criminal law – Media and entertainment – Circumvention of copy protection – Computer games – Copyright R v Neil Stanley Higgs (2008): CA (Crim Div) (Lords Justice Jacob, Hughes, Justice Andrew Smith): 24 June 2008 The appellant (H) appealed against ...
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Landlord and tenant
Local government – Mental health – Possession claims – Public sector tenancies – Schizophrenia Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm (2008): HL (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Scott of Foscote, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury): 25 June 2008 ...
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Silver lining?
In the light of recent turmoil on the stockmarket, there would appear to be scope for charities to gain substantially from estates which include shares in companies that have declined dramatically in value (such as banks, builders and property companies). Where there is a taxable estate ...
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Long road from the LSA
Leading figures from the profession recently debated the likely shape of a post-Legal Services Act world. The Gazette was granted exclusive access. It is some consolation for the legal profession that Professor Richard Susskind, the leading commentator, has put a question mark at the end ...
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State of the nation
Just after the poor darlings at Queen Mary College, University of London got their degree marks, the results of something far more important came up – those of the first Field Fisher Waterhouse Essay competition for the QM law students who help out at the university’s London Legal Advice Centre. ...
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Sole practitioners
Yet more news of fast lady lawyers – and Obiter believes the fastest lady lawyer in the land may finally have been chased down.
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Showing the way
Our changes to guidance on the transfer system safeguard the public interest while minimising any adverse consequences An area of our work that has attracted considerable interest is the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) recent decision to improve the arrangements which allow lawyers qualified in a number ...
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Top 100 cautious despite growth
Major firms are forecasting single-digit growth in fee income for the coming year, despite continued double-digit growth up to April, according to business advisory firm Deloitte. The top 100 achieved 12% growth in the quarter ended 30 April compared to the same period in 2007, Deloitte ...
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Messing about in boats
Vintage-boat owner and conveyancing solicitor Chris Malley (inset) emailed Obiter to tell of his acting part in film director Richard Curtis’s latest feature – yes, he of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill fame – apparently titled The Boat that Rocked. Malley, 61-year-old partner at Weymouth firm Simon ...
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Try and tri again
Yet more lawyers pushing themselves to the limit. This time solicitors Paul Arthur, 43, Anna Burns, 25, Julian Evitts, 33, and trainee Helen Rice, 26 – all from Chester firm Oliver & Co – have completed their first triathlon, raising £650 for Macmillan Cancer Support and the British Lung Foundation.
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Quality of legal aid provision 'at risk'
The government is risking lowering standards in legal aid provision if it presses ahead with its reform programme, the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) warned at the launch of a new fundraising campaign – Friends of LAPG – last week. Speaking at the event – which ...
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Massive attack
I am writing to comment on an address given by Shadow Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC to a meeting organised by my criminal defence firm, Hine & Associates. Mr Grieve indicated that should the Conservatives return to power, they would not proceed with the proposed competitive ...
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'Outsource work or risk being cut out of the loop'
Law firms should be looking to cut costs and outsource some legal work to compete effectively once alternative business structures (ABSs) come into being, Kerry Underwood, senior partner at Hertfordshire firm Underwoods, has warned. Speaking at a legal process outsourcing (LPO) event hosted by the South ...
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Judicial candidates selection concern
The Society of Asian Lawyers (SAL) has voiced concern over reports that candidates have been put forward for judicial appointment in competitions they had not entered. SAL chairman Sailesh Mehta said he had been informed that a position was to be given to a candidate who ...