Memory lane

Law Society Gazette, 10 June 2013

‘Full-breadth’ review of regulation

The Ministry of Justice has said there will be no limits to a far-reaching review of the regulation of legal services which began last week. Justice minister Helen Grant MP called on regulators and providers of legal services to suggest how the burden of regulation could be reduced.

5 June 2003

Lawyers reluctant to use PCs

Solicitors’ personal reluctance to use computers is holding back universal PC access at small and mid-sized law firms, a major survey has revealed. It also indicated that the potential of email is not yet being exploited.

9 June 1993

Accountants bid for probate rights

Chartered accountants are bidding for authorisation to act as probate practitioners under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. The move comes after the Law Society voiced fears about ‘cowboys’ in the advice industry.

8 June 1983

Postbox: red carpet

I am far from suggesting that English lawyers should not visit the Soviet Union. But those doing so should face the fact that their professional colleagues there are the willing or unwilling participants in a legal system which not only denies justice but denies the right of the citizen to individual legal advice and representation.

Geoffrey Bindman, London NW1

6 June 1973

Industrial Relations Act 1971

In Cory Lighterage v T&GWU, the defendant union had instructed its members employed by Cory as lightermen to withhold their labour because Cory had in its employment a lighterman who was not a union member. The T&GWU is not a union registered under the Industrial Relations Act 1971 and accordingly does not fall within its ‘approved closed shop’ provisions. Its attempt therefore to oust the non-unionist lighterman from employment, prima facie, constituted an unfair industrial practice.