Your Letters – Page 50
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In-house plea
I appreciate that your recent articles on mediation were about family mediation, but they inadvertently appear to cast a gloomy light over commercial mediation, which is actually going from strength to strength. This is due to extraordinary success rates – 90% of all UK commercial cases settle on the day ...
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Ensuring staff wellbeing is a commercial necessity
A health and wellbeing strategy can bring benefits commercially, too.
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Pawns in the migration game
In July the Home Office introduced a seemingly innocuous phrase into the immigration rules and international students will suffer.
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No glory in train robbery
Am I alone in being offended by the tone of the piece by James Morton in the 12 August edition?
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Baffled by SRA enigma
We need a password to fill in an SRA form. The SRA has not provided the password.
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Arbitrate to uphold justice
If parties choose to arbitrate rather than litigate their dispute, route to justice will be improved.
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Wills: bronze rule
We cannot see why it seems to be assumed by the judiciary that a doctor’s ability to judge mental capacity is greater than that of a solicitor.
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‘Golden rule’ of wills
Even experienced solicitors must take instructions with real care to ensure the validity of a will when capacity issues are involved.
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No high-value exceptions
The debate around the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) consultation to extend the mandatory costs budgeting regime to include commercial cases over the value of £2m has largely been one-sided.
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Over-regulation
I fully empathise with A M Robinson’s rant on the minutiae of our profession’s bureaucratic regulation (letters, 29 July).
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No LiP service
I was interested by John Hyde’s article, ‘Law graduate venture aims to help LiPs’ (Gazette, 22 July).
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In-house path
Recently, the Gazette published two pieces about the legal career path from two different angles. The first, a 2 August article entitled ‘Students “pessimistic” about training contracts’, provided an analysis of the oversupply of graduates compared with the number of training contracts. The second, a blog entitled ‘Later start to ...
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Taxing reply
?clearThe amusing letters on getting lost in the High Court’s maze of corridors reminded me of a terse meeting with a taxing master in the late 1970s.
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Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is again in the news following the suicide of a girl hounded by ‘trolls’ on a social networking site. Her parents have demanded action against the site and are asking the government to regulate similar sites. Imposing sanctions against one site may make a small difference, if they are ...
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Poorly prepared judges
I am a commercial litigator of some 44 years’ experience and I work in civil courts all over the country. I have noticed over recent years that, with all the problems facing our civil justice system, the efficiency of our judges is rapidly diminishing in one particular area of courtroom ...
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Credit to Birkenhead court
I am writing to highlight a procedure adopted by our local county court in detailed assessment proceedings. When making an application for detailed assessment, we have to provide an estimated length of hearing which, in view of some of the creative arguments from opponents, has to be at least three ...
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No publicity for ‘show trials’
Michael Mansfield promotes another of his commissions and tribunals, this time in relation to Lewisham Hospital.