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Twenty Twenty-four
It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks, like everything else, were striking. Not that anybody noticed. Hilda Smith, her chin nuzzled into her breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the doors of Oceania Legal Services Plc. She was just in ...
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Review: me and my shadow
Crying all the way to the bank: Liberace v Cassandra & Daily Mirror Revel Barker Revel Barker, £15.99 It was the titanic clash between bluff, folksy 1940s British decency and glitzy, globetrotting 1950s celebrity, played out in the High Court in London. Guess who won. In its way, the 1959 ...
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People’s peers
Anyone for ping-pong? Yes, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill is back in the Lords this week, for the upper house to pick over its wounded amendments following their savaging last week in the Commons. In the end, of course, the Commons will get its way. As ...
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Results season matters more this year
It’s law firm results season – with every day bringing news of financial results, for the top-100 firms in particular.
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TSol set for major recruitment push
Whitehall’s central legal services provider the Treasury Solicitors Department (TSol) is to recruit 40 lawyers after spending nearly £4.6m on temporary staff through outsourcer Capita, the Gazette can reveal. The recruitment campaign is for advisory, commercial, employment and litigation lawyers at civil service grade 7, with salaries between £47,086 and ...
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Maggie Maggie Maggie! In in in!
The last time I was in the same room as Margaret Thatcher, several hundred Japanese businessmen were there, too. It was Tokyo, September 1989, the high noon of Japan's economic power. World leaders were passing through every week to pay homage to the yen, but prime minister Thatcher was different. ...
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My legal life: Roger Terrell
My father was a farmer but I didn’t fancy a career in agriculture. The beauty of a law degree is that it then takes you on a well-defined path. My training contract was with the legal department at Nottinghamshire County Council. I was articled to John Hayes, who had a ...
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My legal life: Sarosh Zaiwalla
My late father was a solicitor. In 1925 he became one of the first, if not the first, Indians to qualify as an English solicitor. I trained at Stocken & Co in Fleet Street. They were maritime lawyers. The hardest challenges I faced as a lawyer came in my early ...
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My legal life: Margaret Owen
At Cambridge I did a lot of acting and seriously thought about a career in the theatre. But I decided to go for the bar, imagining myself a sort of ‘Portia’, fighting for the disadvantaged. My springboard into gender and women’s rights was being appointed head of law and policy ...
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My legal life: Sophie Khan
Before I settled on law I wanted to be a conservationist. I had read Peter Matthiessen’s book The Snow Leopard, in which he diarised his journey through the Himalayas, and wanted to follow in his footsteps. I’ve always been a worker and couldn’t wait to qualify. I can remember in ...
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My legal life: Myles Jackman
I have a masters in film and used to run my own company making low-budget productions, but there was no money in it. A friend’s mother ran a small criminal law firm which back in 2000 dealt with the case of Afghans who hijacked a plane and forced it to ...
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The high rollers
If as a gambling lawyer you are not phenomenally busy at the moment, then there is something wrong, says Julian Harris, partner at niche City gambling and leisure law firm Harris Hagan. Earlier this month, the government sprung a surprise by choosing Manchester as the host of Britain’s ...
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My legal life: Helena Kennedy QC
I had from the beginning an idealistic idea that I could be the kind of lawyer who might change things for ordinary people. I thought law could be used as a protection and as a tool for social change. I set up a legal advice centre with a social worker ...
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Halabja remembered
Under a glass case in the Halabja memorial museum is a brown, three-strand hemp rope, the kind a lorry driver might use for tying down loads. A black label bears the date 25 January 2010. I had a pretty good idea of the significance, but I asked the curator anyway: ...
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My legal life: Geoff Wild
The whole point of lawyers is that we serve others. We make things better for other people. That is what drew me into the public sector in the first place and has kept me there ever since. At the end of the day, a client simply wants to be made ...
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Future-proofing the LeO
Winter is closing in. Here in the Midlands we have been under the threat of deluge for weeks. The only thing more common than flood warnings are the German sausages being enthusiastically chomped down by visitors to Birmingham’s Christmas market. And, as is increasingly the case, many colleagues here at ...