Gazette, 16 June 1999

We are not the enemy, lawyers sayLegal aid solicitors last week called on the government to stop treating them like the enemy and enter into a ‘constructive dialogue’ with the profession. Speaking at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group’s annual conference, outgoing chairman Richard Miller said its members did not expect to be ‘vilified and abused’ for pointing out ‘real concerns’ about government proposals to reform legal aid under the Access to Justice Bill.

Gazette, 6 June 1979

An Electronic Law Library Over recent years substantial advances have been made in the development of data transmission networks, and in the United Kingdom the Post Office ‘Viewdata’ service, known as Prestel, is about to enter public use. Transmissions are likely to be at a standard charge rate regardless of distance within the United Kingdom. These and other developments have improved the prospects of successfully establishing a system of linked libraries, or databases, maintained on comparatively inexpensive separate computers.

Gazette, June 1939

Military Training Act 1939The Council have received numerous enquiries from articled clerks and their principals as to the position of articled clerks under this Act. The Council recommend that where it is inevitable that military training should take place during the clerk’s articles, he should endeavour to arrange matters so that he performs his military training immediately after taking the Intermediate Examination.