Law Society Gazette, 9 September 2013

Graduates lose out in earning power

According to new research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, recent law graduates earn less than the average salary of their peers. Figures from the class of 2008/09 show that law graduates earned an average of £26,000 in November 2012, £1,500 less than the overall average.

4 September 2003

Hundreds of firms ‘still uninsured’

Hundreds of law firms have yet to secure professional indemnity insurance and from this week are practising uninsured, it has been claimed. Under the indemnity rules, insurers are allowed to backdate insurance for up to one month. If firms fail to secure insurance by the end of September, they will have to be placed in the punitive assigned risks pool.

7 September 1983

Satellite piracy

With the impending arrival of cable TV, and the ever-increasing use of satellites as means of broadcasting and telecommunication, the problem of satellite piracy requires urgent attention. At present, the law forbidding the wrongful interception of satellite signals and their distribution to the public is hopelessly inadequate to protect the commercial interests at stake.

5 September 1973

Battered wives – relief

Following his campaign on behalf of the thalidomide children, Jack Ashley MP has take up the cause of battered wives. In a debate in the Commons, he complained that the inability of women in extreme domestic crises to obtain prompt and effective protection was a shame on, inter alia, lawyers and the legal system.

September 1963

A policy on crime

The recent audacious mail robbery makes one wonder again why the government does not realise the concern there is in the country about the growing crime rate. The police forces are still under strength and if more money is needed to bring them up to strength it should be found.

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