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NewsLegal life on the ocean wave
Solicitors pitted their sailing skills against architects, barristers and MPs in the annual outing of the Law Society Yacht Club. The regatta featured races between classic 26-foot Mermaid-class keelboats operated by the Sea View Yacht Club on the Isle of Wight. The results were: First place – House of Commons ...
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NewsHale, the primary school hero
An access to justice charity wants to publish an illustrated children's book about the Supreme Court president.
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NewsSolicitors and salutations
The letter in the Gazette fulminating about the archaic practice of beginning letters ‘Dear Sir’ is absolutely right (21 May). As we approach the end of the second decade of the 21st century it is catering to a patriarchal society: it is a practice that is outmoded and should be ...
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NewsLaw to Love Island - solicitor Rosie Williams signs up for ITV2 show
The popular show is reported to have signed up an NQ solicitor.
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NewsVery English Scandal: if in doubt, cut the solicitor
Two larger-than-life characters made only passing appearances in the climactic episode of BBC's Thorpe drama.
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NewsRelax with the smooth tones of Leigh Day
Jazz band Permission to Appeal serenaded the London Legal Walk.
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NewsCourts protest attracts the boys in blue
Protest against HMCTS reforms Source: Michael Cross Protest against HMCTS reforms Lawyers say no to ‘quick fit justice’.
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NewsIn New York, concrete jungle where tweets are made of
Twitter users ask the impossible of New York Bar Association.
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NewsFrom defender to fraudster
Edmund O’Connor, an Irish solicitor of 100 years ago, appeared for William Podmore at the 1928 inquest on Vivian Messiter. James Morton His client, alleged to have moved Messiter’s body, was only 5’ 3”, and the deceased a much bigger man. O’Connor persuaded the pathologist to try ...
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NewsHyde in plain sight
In October, HMCTS chief Susan Acland-Hood noted that transparency, and more specifically ‘clear lines of sight and good accountability’, were among her guiding principles. John Hyde This ambition did not seem to extend to her department’s communications manager, who wrote to Gazette deputy news editor John ...
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NewsOf tiffs and tweets
Two of the biggest names in the legal Twitterati appear to have fallen out.