Obiter – Page 17

  • Parliament
    News

    SRA ducks and dives before depleted justice committee

    2023-12-06T11:10:00Z

    Only four MPs turned up for the questioning of the Law Society and two regulators. 

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    1 December 2023

    2 December 2013 - Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson has issued a landmark costs ruling which sends a ‘clear message’ that non-compliance with Lord Justice Jackson’s civil costs regime will not be tolerated.

  • Portrait of Lubna Shuja
    News

    Shuja scoops lifetime achievement award

    1 December 2023

    Lubna Shuja, immediate past president of the Law Society, picked up a lifetime achievement award at the Asian Legal Awards at a glittering ceremony in central London last Saturday.

  • Houses of Parliament
    News

    Attack and defence as MP savages CILEX

    1 December 2023

    Obiter braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to head to committee room 15 in the Palace of Westminster, where representatives of the Bar Council, Bar Standards Board, CILEX and CILEx Regulation were grilled by the Commons justice select committee on regulation of the legal professions.

  • Manchester
    News

    Martyn won’t be calling it a Day

    1 December 2023

    Obiter ventured north on the West Coast main line to celebrate the opening of high-profile firm Leigh Day’s human rights department in Manchester.

  • Morton landscape
    News

    From shoplifting to much worse?

    2023-11-30T00:01:00Z

    Not all thieves will move on to worse, but there is sufficient evidence to show that many of them will graduate.

  • Carols for pro bono
    News

    Yule’s out

    2023-11-29T11:52:00Z

    LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group) invites you to its annual Christmas carol concert ‘Carols for Pro Bono’.

  • End of financial year
    News

    SRA conference call

    2023-11-28T11:45:00Z

    Local government lawyers may struggle to attend the regulator's next in-house conference.

  • microphone
    News

    Pod willing

    24 November 2023

    Almost everybody these days has a podcast. But there is always room for one more.

  • Alanis Morissette
    News

    Isn’t it Ironic?

    2023-11-23T12:50:00Z

    Contested application for an eight-month adjournment is listed. For 10 months’ time. 

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2023-11-23T00:01:00Z

    'Failure to embrace' flexible work, a cull on crime firms and dealing with shoplifters: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • A man in a suit holds up a magnifying glass to a graphic of justice scales
    News

    A bluffer’s guide to AI chat (GPT)

    2023-11-22T00:01:00Z

    Obiter’s tips for becoming an instant artificial intelligence guru.

  • Lady Justice Carr DBE official portrait
    News

    Lady chief justice prematurely put out to grass

    2023-11-21T15:27:00Z

    Dame Sue Carr tells of being ordered to return all her departmental IT kit. 

  • Samuel Pepys
    News

    Hidden in plain sight

    2023-11-20T15:12:00Z

    What connects Samuel Pepys’ diary, cosmetics and an elderly lady hiding her pearls?

  • MoJ window quote
    News

    Window dressing

    17 November 2023

    Ministry of Justice’s headquarters in Petty France, London, gains some new decorations.

  • Gwyneth Paltrow lawsuit, Park City, USA
    News

    Hollywood court drama takes the stage

    2023-11-17T11:40:00Z

    Gwyneth Goes Skiing opens next month at the Pleasance theatre, in north London.

  • Morton landscape
    News

    Dinner parties to remember

    2023-11-16T16:12:00Z

    Morton recalls visiting Michael Beckman QC's home for dinner.

  • Woman wearing hat, scarf and gloves, shivers
    News

    Judge’s froideur turns up the heat

    2023-11-15T16:02:00Z

    Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor recalls action she took to get heating and air con fixed at Southwark Crown Court.

  • Japanese knotweed
    News

    Counsel get into the weeds

    2023-11-15T00:01:00Z

    While knotweed itself is no joke, the opening day of Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil – the Japanese knotweed ADR case - had moments of humour.

  • Aaron Ford
    News

    Trainee solicitor is game for job of two halves

    10 November 2023

    Trainee Aaron Ford is now qualified to referee Women’s Championship matches and run the line in Women’s Super League games.