Law Society Gazette, 14 April 2014

MoJ heralds ‘Wi-Fi era’

Criminal cases are to be handled digitally from the moment a crime is committed to the conclusion of the cases in court, the government said last week, revealing the first site to be equipped with IT under the new ‘digital business model’.

16 April 2004

Supreme vision for a new court

The supreme court will be the ultimate guardian of the constitution and the ultimate safeguard against the abuse of executive power by the state. The court does not exist primarily to provide relief to individuals but to consider questions in the collective interest. Therefore it is wholly wrong that the Constitutional Reform Bill should seek to recoup the costs of the court from court fees.

20 April 1994

Fixed fees loom for civil cases

Standard fees in civil cases are to be introduced by 1 January 1995, the Lord Chancellor’s Department has signalled. It has written to the Law Society to mark the formal start of its consultations on a payment scheme which is guaranteed to be deeply unpopular among practitioners.

18 April 1984

Findings and orders of the SDT

Why should not the more important rulings of the tribunal be published either in the Gazette or as a consolidated separate periodical publication? The advantages of publication are many; the first and most salutary would be the decrease of cases taken to the tribunal. It would forewarn solicitors of the pitfalls now faced by them and into which several fall quite innocently.

10 April 1974

Solicitor in Grand National

Mr John Carden, solicitor, of Manchester, rode in this year’s Grand National even though his nose had been shattered in a fall on the same Aintree course two days previously. Mr Carden has spent his legal career entirely with his father’s firm, Thomas Jones, Son and Carden, of Central Street, Manchester. He was articled to them and qualified in 1964.

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