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Roger Sceats
FeatureConstitutional change and the Civil Procedure Rules
The lack of a codified British constitution means that substantial constitutional changes can occur without anyone noticing at the time.
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Owners registry: not in my name
The Law Society does not speak for me when it criticises proposals for a registry of beneficial owners of companies.
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Hollow laugh with High Court application
There is still amusement in the law. I delivered an application to the High Court today. Royal Mail had lost my previous bundle and I thought it best to hand over a substitute in person (ironically, the case is about a judge who believed in the efficacy of the postal ...
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Support costs
Once upon a time we filled in the form to renew our annual practising certificates by hand and then continued to do proper work.
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Boycott injustice
Congratulations for publishing the comment by Melanie Strickland on the need for lawyers to consider more basic principles of justice than the law presently allows. The letter from David Enright on the ‘justice equation’ in the same edition alerts us to more immediate needs as well.
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Restricting arrests for crimes of universal jurisdiction is more about politics than legal principles
Joshua Rozenberg is ready to support ‘reasons of state’ for restricting the right to ask a magistrate to authorise the first step in the private prosecution of a suspected war criminal.
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Regulatory creep
The new rule in place from 13 October on the requirements to be shown on letterheads reminds one of the various bites at this particular matter the regulators have had.
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Shamed into action
Joshua Rozenberg’s view that there is ‘nothing to be gained by an arrest of someone who is never going to be prosecuted’ may be good legal analysis but it lacks political sense (see [2010] Gazette, 18 March, 8).