Law Society Gazette 18 May 2015

Human Rights Act in line of fire as Gove gets justice

Dressed in his full ceremonial robes, Michael Gove will visit the law courts this week to take his oath of office as lord chancellor. His trickiest problem is his party’s manifesto promise to ‘scrap the Human Rights Act and introduce a British Bill of Rights’.

24 May 1995

Mackay floats league tables

The lord chancellor this week floated the idea of ‘league tables’ of legal aid solicitors, similar to those for state schools. Lord Mackay also launched a strong attack on the current legal aid system, describing it as a ‘strait-jacket which forces people to use only those services which lawyers currently supply’. 

29 May 1985

Electronic mail – anyone out there?

When the words ‘Telecom Gold’ appeared on our notepaper four months ago some people asked us what it was. Since then there has been a Gazette article about electronic mail and we hear that one local law society has arranged a demonstration. The trouble is, we have no gold-nibbed pen-friends; we feel like the people who had the first telephone installed.

May 1965

The embarrassing question

Even the most experienced and, possibly for that reason, the most hardened divorce practitioner must feel some sense of embarrassment when, in accordance with his duty, he asks his lady client whether she has committed adultery. He must ask the question not merely once, not even twice, but probably on three separate occasions during the progress of the proceedings.

June 1925

The Society’s Centenary Celebrations

Members will meet at the Society’s Hall at 11.30am. The president will deliver an address. In the evening the Council will hold a Reception at the Society’s Hall for members and official guests of the Society, ladies being also invited.

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