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Bhangra beat
By day, he is a serious-minded, sharp-suited commercial litigator, by night he is one of the hottest acts on the Bhangra music scene.
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Birds of a feather
Wicked whisperings at the Sole Practitioners Group's annual shindig in sunny Brighton last weekend. Obiter hears merry delegates had a chortle on discovering that conference speaker Bob Heslett, the Deputy Vice President of the Law Society, had a bird in his room. One wag joked he was feathering his nest ...
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Brand on the run
Brand on the run: there is one thing Obiter likes more than a good rebranding - and that's a bad rebranding. Many a branding consultancy has paid for Caribbean holidays for all its staff thanks to a law firm crossing the threshold.
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CCBE ready to establish rule-of-law foundation
COUNCIL OF BARS AND LAW SOCIETIES OF EUROPE: ASSEMBLY The first Europe-wide foundation dedicated to protecting the rule of law across member states looks set to be established by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), it emerged during last weekend's bi-annual general ...
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Fraud 'sea change'
Two men have been jailed for insurance fraud in a case that personal injury lawyers say highlights a 'sea change hardening' in the courts' attitude towards scammers.
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'Charge terror suspects with minor offences,' says peer
CUSTODY: call for shift to 'normal judicial process' The government should consider charging terror suspects with minor offences and deny ...
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Second city?
There is a lot more to Manchester than united, city and coronation street. This thriving metropolis now claims to host England's biggest legal market outside London.
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Discrimination claim
The senior partner at one of London's most ethnically diverse law firms, Dean & Dean, has accused the Law Society and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) of racial and religious discrimination.
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Deals of the week
Green deal: City firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert advised Dutch banking and insurance services provider SNS REAAL, UK investment and financial services group Alliance Trust Plc and the Universities Superannuation Scheme, which provides pensions to academic staff, on their investment in Climate Change ...
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Terror debate
It is surely not for senior members of the judiciary 'to engage in a serious and considered debate about how best legally to confront terrorism' (see Joshua Rozenberg, [2008] Gazette, 15 May, 14).
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More support needed for disabled students
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) should take a more active role in supporting disabled law students, the new chairman of the Group for Solicitors with Disabilities (GSD), David Merkel, told the Gazette this week.
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Ethical footprint
Law firms may have lagged behind their clients int recognising the importance of corporate social responsibility, but that is changing fast. Philip Hoult reports
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'European lawyer'
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has voted to develop a code of common professional standards to define the role of the 'European lawyer' across all member states. Peter Koves, president of the CCBE, told delegates his 'vision of the European lawyer' was not ...
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Fighting fit
Ken Dickinson of NAS Advocates is not the only fighting-fit solicitor of, shall we say, 'mature years' (see [2008] Gazette, 15 May, 8). Adam Wershof, a 46-year-old litigation lawyer at London firm Wiseman Lee, says he gets his kicks from 'fighting off a five-man attack at ju-jitsu training'. As well ...
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Hard times
Solicitors can stop worrying about client money in banks. But they should still be careful how they invest, reports Lucy Trevelyan
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Naked launch
Did you hear about the new networking referral service 'lunched' this week? It aims, according to the press release, to help smaller firms 'specialing' in particular areas of law. The author whimsically swaps between lower and upper case for the first letter of the client's name, and confuses the reader ...
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Law reports
CONFISCATION ORDERSCriminal procedure - apportionment - benefit from criminal conductR v Raymond George May: HL (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood): 14 May 2008
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Scotland votes for open market
After several years of prevarication, the Law Society of Scotland has voted by a large majority - 801 to 132 - to open up the country's legal services market to competition.