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NewsJudges who took their time
For the fourth time this year, a judge has been given formal advice for misconduct over a late judgment. None, however, was in the class of a 19th-century lord chancellor.
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NewsWaiting game
Chronology in last week's Axiom Ince report provides intriguing hints about why it all took much longer than expected.
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NewsMemory lane
'Climate justice' calls, video link appeals, electronic office technology and an all-graduate profession: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsHot ticket in the Rolls
Liability trial begins in mammoth group action involving a tailings dam collapse and Brazilian law.
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NewsAt the lord mayor’s show
When an invitation landed for the City of London lord mayor’s annual judges’ dinner, Obiter accepted with alacrity.
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News'Oldest comedian' headlines fundraiser for solicitor scroll
Ticket sales will go towards funds needed for a Torah Scroll in memory of criminal defence stalwart Julian Young.
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NewsHow our DPPs are remembered
Every DPP’s tenure is judged by one or two cases which they should have prosecuted but didn’t, or shouldn’t have prosecuted but did.
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NewsConsumer panel comes out of hibernation
Survey reveals 'significant difference' - four percentage points - in client satisfaction between England and Wales.
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NewsMcCloud cuts to Krapp at the last
Famous last words are often quoted, but maybe last judgments ought to be a thing too.
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Memory lane
Government help for LiPs, police checks for child law solicitors and the Post Office goes metric: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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News£150k job vacancy: relevant skills optional
The Law Commission is on the hunt for two new commissioners.
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NewsCruel summer: attorney general asked about Taylor Swift
Richard Hermer KC tells journalists he can't say if he advised government on the singer - let alone what that advice might have been.
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NewsCourt stats? 404 error page. Just keep waiting
'Concerns about the quality' of court statistics may be more serious than first admitted.
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NewsShutting the stable door?
Ethics training at the Post Office is commendable, but possibly belated.
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NewsTribunals president is no eejit
President of the tribunals tells Welsh lawyers how he got judges to buy into remote justice.
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NewsJudges behaving badly – again
There must, I suppose, be some sympathy for a judge or magistrate who has a very occasional outburst during a case – provided that they do not do it too often.
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NewsEx-Rosenblatt chief gets back in the game
Nicola Foulston, the former chief executive of City firm RBG, does not seem to have lost her appetite for the legal world.
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Memory lane
A Law Society power shake-up, how to advertise and the Motor Car Act 1903: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.