A stroll down Gazette memory lane

Law Society Gazette, 26 January 2012

Jackson wary of setting limits

Lord Justice Jackson has urged caution over setting limits on the percentage of damages that lawyers will be able to take in commercial cases under his reforms to civil litigation.

17 January 2002

Woolf rails against lack of mediation

Lord Woolf has made an impassioned plea for lawyers to mediate more and litigate less, and indicated that the remit of mediation in public law cases should be widened. Giving judgment in Cowl v Plymouth City Council, the lord chief justice said: Insufficient attention is paid to the paramount importance of avoiding litigation wherever possible.’

21 January 1992

Society rejects ‘derisory’ 3%

The lord chancellor’s improved offer of 3% for legal aid has been dismissed by Law Society officials as ‘derisory and nowhere near acceptable’. Officials are also lukewarm about the lord chancellor’s proposals to ease solicitors’ cash-flow difficulties.

20 January 1982

Is religious discrimination illegal?

In the UK it is only in Northern Ireland that religious discrimination is, in certain contexts, expressly forbidden by statute. Elsewhere, a person claiming to have suffered such discrimination has only limited and indirect possibilities of obtaining legal redress. 

January 1962

The Ladies Annexe

Dear Sir

I am charmed to see your notice on this subject. It is a far cry from my first introduction to the Society’s hall in November, 1920, when I sat for the Preliminary Exam and was the only woman candidate. I then looked in vain for a notice that there was a ‘Ladies’ provided; I was too shy to enquire of the attendant at the Hall door. 

Yours faithfully

Winifred Lewis (admitted 1924)

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