All Law Gazette articles in 4 November 2013
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NewsChancery Lane seeks further changes to legal aid reforms
The Law Society has responded to the government’s second legal aid consultation.
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NewsMinistry tries to stave off VHCC boycott
A statutory instrument implementing 30% fee cuts will be laid tomorrow.
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NewsLack of PII puts 153 firms on cessation list
If they fail to secure cover by 29 December they will have to close.
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NewsUnpaid work experience a bar to diversity, say young lawyers
The Young Legal Aid Lawyers group has called for the SRA to reinstate the minimum salary for trainees.
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NewsCo-operative Legal Services announces bar panel
The alternative business structure has increased the size of its bar panel from seven to 20.
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NewsNo date yet for company ownership register
Business secretary reveals more details of the planned beneficial ownership register.
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ProfileElkan Abrahamson
The Gazette’s Legal Personality of the Year reflects on a career spent holding the authorities to account.
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NewsAccess to justice: ‘all is not lost’
The introduction of fixed fees and pay-as-you go could help people on low incomes access family law services, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff said.
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NewsHigh achievers
Solicitors from national law firm Kennedys scaled the summit of Mount Toubkal, raising more than £40,000.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Legal Project Management, Pricing, and Alternative Fee Arrangements
This book looks at how to be attractive and therefore competitive to win and keep clients.
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NewsApocalypse now
One innovator showed what can be done simply by hitting the return key of a well-wired computer.
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Asian women lawyers’ mentoring scheme
The Association of Asian Women Lawyers launched a mentoring scheme for law students and junior lawyers at a Law Society event last week.
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NewsSome mothers do ’ave ’em
What do a 15-year-old Liverpool boy and celebrity ex-criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read have in common?
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NewsTowers of Babel?
In an attempt to emerge from its long, sorry history of computer projects, the MoJ has begun breaking up its procurements into so-called ‘towers’.
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Beneficial register criticised by Law Society
David Cameron announced the creation of a central register of company beneficial ownership last week.
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ProfileBig Brother winner settles copyright case
Lucy Middleton acted for Brian Belo, who claimed that ITV and Lime Pictures copied programme idea to create TOWIE.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Blunders of our Governments
These respected authors confirm what Westminster watchers have suspected for a while – that recent UK governments have been particularly prone to policy blunders.
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Opinion
Boris led the way in China
Based on the London mayor’s rapturous reception in China, a future trip involving lawyers led by him might be most effective.
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OpinionWatching briefs
The master of the rolls believes all court proceedings will eventually be televised.
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FeatureBringing a case to Strasbourg
Practical guidance on submitting applications to the European Court of Human Rights.