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NewsThinking with your eyes shut
Barristers used to pile across the road to a restaurant opposite the Old Bailey for a couple of glasses of wine at lunch. And what about judges?
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NewsThird time, er, lucky?
A record of played two, lost two would normally be a cause for some introspection. But not for the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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NewsMemory lane
'Murder by Lord Lucan', barristers' direct access push and a body on the steps of the Law Society: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsBadly executed
Phrase ‘execution of judgments’ has to go, Lord Hermer tells Council of Europe’s summer school in Liverpool.
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NewsFax for the memories
Civil Procedure Rule Committee delivers the coup de grâce for the ‘outdated’ fax machine.
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NewsDashcam evidence sends claim down the toilet
Clyde & Co released details this week about how it had thwarted the £81,000 claim of a driver
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News'I do not need to be told…’ Leveson’s greatest hits
Criminal courts review has an acoustic quality compared with Sir Brian's earlier works.
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NewsThrowing the kitchen sink and missing
Appeal bid lost despite 35 grounds and 150 complaints about judge’s ruling.
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NewsLord chancellor consigns predecessor to the birdcage
Shabana Mahmood keeps her audience laughing as she addresses her second judges' dinner.
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News150 years of bragging (Clarkson) Wrights
Orpington-based Clarkson Wright & Jakes, Solicitors and Notaries can trace its roots back to 1875.
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NewsNot to be sniffed at
‘Smell detector’ devices to detect drugs was one idea pitched to prisons and probation minister to crack Crown court backlog.
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NewsThe singer formerly known as ‘Pres’
Jonathan Smithers is one the Society’s more musical past presidents.
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NewsBeddie-bye byes for Lord Hardwicke
Lord chancellor Philip Yorke did not receive a watch as his retirement gift.
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NewsArmless enough? No-hands cycling barrister divides opinion
Garden Court practitioner observed cycling with his arms stretched out wide and off the handlebars during rush hour, police say.
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Memory lane
Gove’s levy plan, 100,000 practising solicitors and professional married women: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsThanks a million, again
Contributions to the London Legal Walk expected to surpass £1m for the second year running.
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NewsM&S sweet sandwich raises VAT question
Will the limited-edition strawberries and cream sandwich be regarded as a staple food and exempt from VAT, or will the standard rate apply?