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Extradition
Appeal – Respondent judicial authority requesting appellant's extradition to serve remainder of sentence following various offences Neuman v Circuit Court of Katowice, Poland: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court: 15 February 2013 ...
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Hague’s concern sits ill with Tory agenda
You might have thought that an organisation called the Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice would not have much hope of a grant from a Tory cabinet minister. Too much resonance of Harriet Harman. Too much potential irony in how cuts, like those to legal aid, have been directed not against ...
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Immigration
Rules – Amendment being made – Immigration Rules imposing pre-entry English language test for foreign spouses and partners of British citizens or persons settled in UK R (on the application of Bibi and another v Secretary of State for ...
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‘Clients’ are owed a fiduciary duty of care
It may be a matter of semantics, but to a solicitor there is a distinction of substance between the concepts of ‘customer’ and ‘client’. All clients are by definition also ‘customers’ and deserve a level of service that recognises commercial realities, including increasing competition from the nationals who are better ...
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‘Final and binding’ awards in family law
Dennis Sheridan’s article on family law arbitration sets out the key benefits of the new Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (IFLA) scheme, but risks being dangerously misleading in one respect, namely that ‘awards’ made under the scheme are ‘final and binding’. More worryingly, he makes this claim in relating what ...
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PII prescription from Society?
The 8 April Gazette contains the president’s invitation to submit suggestions as to how the Law Society could help solicitors. Here is mine.
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Figure it out
A dip in interpreter provision. And on whose figures? Even Capita is now hard-pressed to attempt to present a positive picture. I have striven again and again in letters to the Ministry of Justice, from the secretary of state downwards, to secure a straight answer to a simple though basic ...
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City limits
Richard Edwards asks whether it is just him who thinks the government is protecting the interests of the City while destroying concepts such as fairness, access to justice and equality of arms. No Mr Edwards, it is not just you.
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Title lapse
About a week ago we received yet another email from the Solictors Regulation Authority, on this occasion regarding a number of important rule changes in connection with personal injury cases. The letter commenced ‘Dear sirs’. As far as we are aware there are a large number ...
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NewsRoundtable: Wales and devolution
'Jagged-edged' devolution boundaries have placed lawyers in Wales on shaky ground
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‘Overwhelming’ support for action as 400 barristers stay away from court
Crown court hearings across the north were disrupted today as over 400 barristers stayed away from court in the first incident of militant action against the government’s planned reforms to criminal legal aid. The all-day protest meeting followed a ballot of barristers on the northern circuit, ...
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SRA management ‘lacks diversity’
A critical report on the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s workforce diversity policy has finally seen the light – 18 months after its completion. The regulator circulated the review, carried out in October 2011, along with a response last week, following threats by the Law Society’s equality ...
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Stress rising among lawyers – LawCare
Three-quarters of lawyers say they are more stressed now than they were five years ago, according to a survey by legal charity LawCare. Responses from more than 1,000 solicitors, barristers and legal executives blamed overwork, poor management, lack of appreciation, and feeling isolated or unsupported. ...
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Society demands insurer title change
The Law Society is pressing regulators to drop the title of ‘qualifying insurers’ after the failure of a third professional indemnity insurer. The Society wants the Solicitors Regulation Authority to change the designation to ‘participating insurers’ to avoid perpetuating the misconception that insurers are vetted by ...
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Legal director at centre of High Court dispute
The dismissed former director of West Yorkshire Police legal services is at the centre of a dispute that led to the suspension of another force’s temporary chief constable on grounds that the High Court subsequently ruled were ‘perverse and irrational’. Afzal Hussain, dismissed from his legal ...
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‘Right to die’ man breaks his silence
The paralysed man who took over the late Tony Nicklinson’s claims on the right to die with the help of a doctor has abandoned anonymity. Paul Lamb, 58, previously known only as ‘L’, was left paraplegic after a road accident in 1990. In a statement released ...
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New bar nursery open 7 till 7
A decades-old campaign to improve women’s representation at the higher levels of the bar bore fruit last week with the opening of a childcare facility in central London. The Bar Nursery, at West Smithfield, will offer childcare facilities at special rates for all members of the ...
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Means test canvass
The Ministry of Justice is seeking views on a new means test to determine whether people are entitled to a waiver of their civil court or tribunal fees. Proposed changes include a test to identify low earners with substantial savings that would enable them to ...
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Olympic medallist set for London Legal Walk
Swapping water for dry land, Olympic rowing gold medallist Katherine Grainger will set the pace at this year’s London Legal Walk. The postgraduate law student, who won a gold medal in the double sculls event at the London Olympics, will be part of the King’s ...