All Obiter articles – Page 87
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NewsMemory lane
7 June 2007 Bill changes face reversal The government has pledged to reverse major amendments made to the Legal Services Bill in the House of Lords, accusing peers of losing sight of consumers’ interests. Though the Ministry of Justice has accepted some amendments – notably the addition of protecting the ...
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NewsRecord 12,000 lawyers ready to walk 10km for justice
London Legal Support Trust hopes to exceed last year's £740,000 fundraising total.
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NewsExotic flowers in the jury box
First women to sit on juries faced expected and unexpected challenges.
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NewsJackson fixed on knowledge - even over dinner
Lord Justice's enthusiasm for subject goes well beyond working hours.
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NewsThese lawyers were made for walking
Join the Gazette - and some legal luminaries - on next Monday’s double London legal walk.
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NewsChilli con carnage for novice lawyer
Alison Fitch brings Obiter’s series on first days in the law up to 1988, when she started as an office junior. Her duties were, ahem, varied: ‘Everything was delivered by hand in those days so I’d walk miles, added to that picking Chelsea buns up for the office from the ...
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NewsPerils of purdah leave LSB tight-lipped
Our beloved super-regulator seems a little muddled about its constitutional status.
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NewsEh? Permission to approach the bench...
On the subject of contempt of court, Obiterventures to correct Mrs Justice Lang DBE over a stinging put-down in a judgment pub-lished last week.
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NewsDog's life for articled clerk
A bumper response this week for tales of first days in the law. His Honour Eric Stockdale contributes a story about the late Jim Seeman. ‘Jim was articled to a solicitor in Ruislip and usually spent the week there, returning to his home only at weekends. ‘Not long after he ...
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NewsWindies legend bowls 'em over
I can’t think in my pantheon of sporting lawyers how I came to omit the great West Indian cricketer Sir Learie Constantine. Mea culpa. He played for the Windies from 1923 until 1939, during which time he also played in Lancashire League cricket. Morton landscape Wisden described ...
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