A stroll down Gazette memory lane

Gazette 20 September 2012

Co-op adds family law to cart

The march of supermarket brands into reserved legal activities takes another step today with the launch of Co-operative family law services. Its family law unit is led by Law Society council member for child care Christina Blacklaws.

26 September 2002

Lawyers cry foul as PDS expands

Criminal law specialist practitioners are fuming after the Legal Services Commission made the bombshell decision to open two more controversial public defender service (PDS) offices, and hinted that it is likely to push ahead with wider expansion.

23 September 1992

Lawyers trumpet Ukraine’s potential

British business is lagging behind Germany and the US in showing interest in investing in the newly formed state of the Ukraine, according to a fact-finding trip to the country. Baker & McKenzie’s two-lawyer office in Kiev reports ‘so much business that they are working around the clock’.

22 September 1982

Legal clinics: Can we learn from the USA? by Geoffrey Bindman

Comparisons between British and US provision of legal services for those of limited means can be illuminating. A recent development in the US is the ‘legal clinic’, a private firm of attorneys endeavouring to carry out ‘routine’ legal work at fees which are brought down below traditional levels by standardisation and simplification, aided by advertising to attract new business.

20 September 1972

Court proceedings – for the record

The Lord Chancellor set up a working party whose terms of reference were: ‘To examine the comparative cost and efficiency of tape recording and shorthand as a means of court reporting... and to make proposals for any further implementation of tape recording.’ In the first sentence of its report, the working party drew attention to the ‘elementary but fundamental fact’ that the purpose of making a record of proceedings is to produce a transcript of them when required.

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