The Law Society’s Gazette, March 1929

Poor Persons ProcedureIt remains only for the Council once again to urge every member of the Society to come forward and share in the conduct of poor persons' cases. All may rest assured that the greatest possible care is taken by the Committees to secure that only really deserving applications are assisted, and that if every solicitor would undertake to conduct but one case per annum he would not be called upon actually but once in three or four years.

The Law Society Gazette, March 1999

OSS seeks new power to investigate firmsThe Office for the Supervision of Solicitors (OSS) has called on the government to give it greater powers to investigate all solicitors' firms in the wake of the continuing row over allegedly unscrupulous immigration firms. Meanwhile, an extra £500,000 has been allocated to the OSS so it can retain temporary staff helping to clear a backlog of 9,000 cases.

Thompsons slims down for WoolfThe largest personal injury practice in the country, Thompsons, last week announced that a fifth of its equity partners will leave the firm as part of a radical shake-up to prepare for the civil justice reforms. Partner Tom Jones said that, under the Woolf reforms, lawyers would have to do the same or more work for less money.

Judicial innovatorThe legal profession’s reaction to Lord Denning's death last Friday has been one of universal sadness – regret that a man, variously described as a ‘towering figure’ and a ‘giant of British law making’, has gone from its midst.