Law Society Gazette, 22 February 2016
Super-exam could stymie talent
The Law Society has called for more detail on a new ‘super-examination’ for aspiring solicitors, warning that it could dilute professional standards and adversely affect clients. It was responding to the SRA’s consultation on the SQE.
23 February 2006
E-conveyancing trial launches
The Land Registry announced that the first stage of the process that will see all conveyancing transactions carried out electronically by 2010 – the chain matrix system – will be prototyped from autumn.
28 February 1996
Rough ride for divorce bill
Fireworks were expected in the Lords as the Family Law Bill entered its second day in report. Cross-party efforts to force changes focused on three key amendments: pension splitting, ‘fault’ in divorce and an extension of the cooling-off period.
25 February 1976
Court design
Mervyn Flashbulbe, the Gazette’s roving eye, had a ‘shufti’ at some of the newer London courts. He found the most depressing the Queen’s Building of the Law Courts: ‘Large, drab and impersonal, geared to the biggest case a judge there has to try, almost empty in the course of an ordinary working day.’
February 1966
Law reform indeed
Lord Gardiner raised an important question at the Society of Labour Lawyers regarding the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords: ‘Is a double appeal in the best interests of the litigants?’
March 1926
The Solicitors Acts
The committee ordered that Sidney Bell be suspended for one year. The allegation made was: That the solicitor, having received from or on behalf of a client a sum of £40, wilfully retained and appropriated the same or part thereof for his own use. The committee found that the allegation against the solicitor in respect of the £40 had been substantiated.
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