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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...