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NewsWhen smiling is really not welcome
SRA board members debate what message the regulator wants to send out to consumers.
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NewsMoJ pledges mystery
The ministry seems to have forgotten about a series of pledges it made earlier this year.
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NewsFont of inspiration
Obiter applauds any attempt to save taxpayers’ money in these austere times.
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NewsRussian gold
Just as the Great Train Robbers needed a lawyer to help launder the money, so did the First Great Train Robbers, writes James Morton. They removed gold intended to pay soldiers in the Crimea from an apparently secure van on the London to Folkestone train on 15 May 1855. This ...
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NewsIt fell off the back of a lorry, honest
A book believed stolen from St Paul’s Cathedral has resurfaced – in a collection put up for sale by the Law Society.
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NewsPaper pushers
Credit to the Ministry of Justice for cutting its spending on paper by £300,000 this year – but somehow the department still managed to rack up a bill of £2.9m in 2012/13.
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NewsSomething to shout about
There was more than a hint of The Office’s David Brent about Riverview Law’s latest press release, in which it outlines plans to take on more staff.
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NewsWednesday winners
After a new job? Fix the interview for a Wednesday lunchtime is the advice from a recruitment consultant.
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NewsMemory Lane
Roll of honour: Hopgood, John Vere, DFC. Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action in the Ruhr dam operations and buried in Dortmund.
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NewsCafe makeover on the run
A community cafe is brighter and more welcoming thanks to volunteers from a black country firm.
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NewsFig-uratively speaking
The master of the rolls Lord Dyson gave a tear-jerker of a send-off to Lord Judge last month
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NewsAll in a flap over birds
After the over-the-top coverage enjoyed by the ‘barrister hottie’ rankings last month
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Caption competition
Obiter’s request for captions to the picture of justice secretary Chris Grayling receiving an award from commons speaker John Bercow prompted some wicked (and frankly unprintable) suggestions. For some reason, most of you seemed to find something amusing in the disparity in the two legislator’s heights. In a nod to ...
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NewsCharity drivers
At Simpson Millar, they take a direct approach to making sure that aid gets to the right place. Associate Allison Chatto (pictured), and office manager Amanda Davis will be driving a lorry as part of a convoy delivering humanitarian aid to some of Europe’s poorest children, in Bulgaria. Chatto and ...
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NewsThe wages of crime
Overall, participants in the world’s great robberies do not seem to have lived happily on the proceeds.
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By George! Legal PR misses a trick with royal baby
Obiter is a little disappointed by the legal sector’s failure to ride shotgun on the birth of royal baby George.
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OpinionBoundaries of behaviour
My first day as an agent for the Crown Prosecution Service did not begin auspiciously.
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Happy birthday, legal aid
Lawyers are getting rather good at demonstrating noisily against government plans to ‘transform’ legal aid.