Law Society Gazette 25 January 2016

Bitcoin technology heralds ‘smart contract’ era

The technology behind the bitcoin digital currency could usher in an era of ‘smart contracts’ and enable the creation of a tamper-proof Land Registry database, legal technology experts said this week.  

26 January 2006

New board sparks protest

City and legal aid lawyers came together this week to warn that plans for the future regulation of legal services do not provide the profession with sufficient independence from government. Echoing concerns expressed last week by the Law Society, the City of London Law Society and the Legal Aid Practitioners Group both criticised plans to set up a legal services board to oversee the profession.  

31 January 1996

Concern at foreign lawyer admissions

Criteria for the admission of foreign lawyers in England and Wales are to be re-examined following fears that the regime is too liberal. The Law Society’s international committee has asked the training committee to study the terms of admission. 

29 January 1986

Fraud trials: a practitioner’s view

First reactions to the report of the Roskill Committee into Fraud Trials indicate that it is regarded as a practical and dynamic blueprint for reform of criminal procedure at grass-roots level. (The committee recommended that a ‘frauds trial tribunal’ replace jury trial in complex fraud cases.)

28 January 1976

Satire and the bar

Our society would be the poorer without its satirists. All the more pity, therefore, that Mr Bernard Levin should be afflicted by an apparently incurable paranoia about the small section of the legal profession which specialises in his own trade of advocacy, the bar of England and Wales. Whenever chance gives him the shred of an opportunity, he takes a wild swing at his pet enemy. 

 

 

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