Law Society Gazette 26 October 2015

City firms to meet MoJ

City firm representatives will meet the Ministry of Justice today to discuss controversial plans to plug the justice funding gap. The meeting follows lord chancellor Michael Gove’s suggestion in June that more could be done by ‘the most successful in the legal profession to help protect justice for all’. 

27 October 2005

Mixed reaction to single court plan

The government is to press ahead with plans to create a single civil court and single family court, it revealed last week. But City lawyers warned that a single civil court could dilute quality in specialist areas. 

25 October 1995

EU could lift ban on lawyer adverts

EU officials are to decide whether to adopt a directive which would allow solicitors and other professionals to engage in comparative advertising. Currently, the Law Society has direct responsibility for regulating advertising within the solicitors’ profession. The publicity code bars the use of comparative advertising. 

24 October 1985

Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985

This act, which received Royal Assent on 16 July and comes into force on 1 April 1986, is intended ‘to provide for greater public access to local authority meetings, reports and documents subject to specified confidentiality provisions; to give local authorities duties to publish certain information; and for related purposes’. For the private practitioner, concerned at the thought of meeting yet another bureaucratic stone wall, this will provide a welcome relief. 

29 October 1975

Legal Aid – the 25-year celebration

The allegation that lawyers were abusing the legal aid system was firmly rejected by Lord Denning at the Law Society reception to mark the 25th anniversary of the introduction of legal aid. It had been alleged at the Police Superintendents’ annual conference that some lawyers received remuneration from three separate sources and there was no adequate provision in law to audit the fees.

 

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