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NewsRussells changes its tune
London entertainment firm Russells has moved into the original home of BBC Music.
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NewsIn the middle of a chain reaction
A Dutch legal software company has announced a blockchain-enabled smart contract.
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NewsHis Honour scoops up the donkey work
How common is donkey-ownership among our judiciary? Obiter is prompted to ask after a trip to Birmingham.
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NewsTractor Boys and Adnams: getting to know the new lord chancellor
What we know about new lord chancellor, David Gauke.
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NewsScoop of the year
The Law Society Art Group exhibition can be viewed from 9-19 January on Chancery Lane.
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NewsGong but not forgotten
For most readers, the New Year begins with a sore head, a paracetamol and a lie in. But spare a thought for Obiter and our newsdesk colleagues, who take time out to navigate the 125-page New Year honours list to see which lawyers made the grade.
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NewsHow lit funders fought rail giant
Litigation funding is nothing new. At one time it was known as maintenance and champerty, and was a felony designed to stop robber barons hijacking litigation for their own ends. But 130 years ago the public rallied to help fight the barons in the form of the railway – and ...
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NewsSRA sleeper comes in from the cold
Obiter can reveal that cracks may be showing in the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s board over its policy of excluding journalists from regular meetings.
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NewsWhat Ho, Raab!
Obiter presents a short story, featuring entirely fictional characters, by G.P. Doghouse
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NewsHarry and Meghan's justice jaunt
Newly engaged couple's first official stop is the National Justice Museum.
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NewsHungry years at Chancery Lane
New Zealand food parcels arrived at the Law Society more than once
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NewsMemory lane
The Law Society Gazette, 13 December 2007 Solicitor-advocates can don wigs from New Year Solicitor-advocates will be able to wear wigs in court from the New Year, the lord chief justice has announced. A practice direction will permit solicitors and other advocates to wear wigs in circumstances where they are ...
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NewsBundle of joy in Court 19
An unexpectedly weighty matter was being heard in the Administrative Court last Friday - 6lbs, 8oz-worth.
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NewsSlice of history
The government does not seem on course to ‘have its cake and eat it’, certainly over Brexit. Perhaps it could learn from the in-house lawyers at trade union Unison, who have had more success in this regard. Last week Obiter joined the great, good and peckish to ...
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NewsJury out on no-show excuses
I forget who it was who asked, ‘Who would want to be tried by 12 people who were so stupid they could not get off a jury?’. They have a point. There again – forget all that rubbish about civic duty – who would want to be tried by 12 ...