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NewsMemory lane
'Unprecedented' courts crisis, HIPs call to solicitors and Revenue’s new powers: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsOrder of the barter
How common is it for lawyers to accept alternatives to cash from impecunious clients?
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NewsJudge recalls when lawyers left counting the cost
Conference hears some 'don'ts' for practitioners advising those trying to claim every penny.
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NewsFarewell Bossy Vossy
Sir Geoffrey Vos steps down from the bench to spend more time with his Herefordshire farm.
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NewsA clash of class cultures
I remember just how cruel some members of the bar and judges were to those they considered came from the ‘lower classes’.
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NewsKeeping it in the family
It is perhaps unprecedented for three members of a family to be formally admitted to the Law Society on the same day.
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NewsPeerless humour in the Lords
The Courts and Tribunals Bill’s second reading in the Lords brings out some lordly joshing.
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NewsDo come in, out of the rain
‘Wets’, or ‘One-Nation Conservatives’, have become even more unwelcome as the Tories have tacked further right.
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NewsDoes Weil Gotshal have cash in the attic?
Weil was one of 70 US law firms listed in the International Directory of Corporate Art Collections.
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NewsFrom Ukraine and Turkmenistan to legal London
Teenagers shadowed solicitors, heard from lawyers about their career paths and visited the Law Society and courts.
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Memory lane
Crumbling ICC, bench boost for solicitors, and lawyers' invisibility: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsNew travel bench mark
Judges can look forward to a new perk: interest-free season ticket loans.
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NewsBusy MR is out of this world
Is anyone really expecting Sir Geoffrey Vos suddenly to develop a passion for sitting around doing nothing?
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NewsStarmer gives us a piggyback
Law Society’s Common Room hosts a screening of prize-winning documentary 'Ash and Crayons', about the plight of Ukraine’s children in Russia’s war.
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NewsMoore the merrier
Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association injects humour into the agenda for its annual conference.
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NewsLegal geeks in the ascendant
Brett Dixon has become the 182nd president of the Law Society of England and Wales.
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News'The man they could not hang'
John ‘Babbacombe’ Lee became known in the 1880s as ‘The man they could not hang’.
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NewsTesting the waters
We reckon Karen Mee may be the first UK lawyer to have swum the channel solo.
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Gazette memory lane
'Dumbing down' exam fear, transfer test record, and the Association of Women Solicitors: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.