Law Society Gazette 29 June 2015

Top firms wary of Gove’s levy plan

Suggestions from the lord chancellor that the ‘very richest’ in the legal system should plug the gap in provision created by cuts to legal aid have met with a cool reception among City lawyers. 

30 June 2005

Practising solicitors to break 100,000

The number of practising solicitors is set to smash through the 100,000 mark, official statistics will reveal this week. The growth shows no sign of slowing, with the numbers of undergraduate law students and Legal Practice Course places both surging by 10%.  

28 June 1995

Running with Woolf

Presenting his interim report to the media, Lord Woolf made one thing very clear. Despite all the talk of new technology, advice kiosks and mobile courts, there would be no more resources for our civil courts. Lord Woolf believed they could deliver a better product for the same price. 

26 June 1985

Solicitors advertising: Pamphlet circulated with free newspaper

Last week’s issue of the Gazette included a piece expressing approval of a pamphlet prepared by a firm of solicitors in the Midlands which, it was said, has been delivered to 70,000 homes inside a free newspaper. The council wish to make it clear that the circulation of a pamphlet in a free newspaper is not permissible under the council’s advertising guidance which came into effect on 1 October 1984. 

June 1965

Professional married women

A working party has been set up to study different aspects of the professional life of women, and in particular those aspects which are common to all the professions. The Law Society is represented on the working party by Lady Littlewood. The position of married women in relation to taxation is being considered at the moment and the working party invites enquiries and opinions.

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