Last 3 months headlines – Page 1190
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Upon what reserves are all concerned to draw when a real emergency arises?
Criminal justice is an area where policymakers see a problem that is not there – and then set about solving it with gusto. As we report, the latest bogus bete noire is the apparent inflexibility of magistrates courts’ sitting hours.
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Independence day?
Obiter is a big fan of things Welsh, especially Brains bitter and the Super Furry Animals. So we shall be sad if this fine nation decides it can dole out justice better on its own and creates a separate legal jurisdiction (not half as sad as whoever gets the job ...
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Ferrets' battle brief
Spending a little time on the traditional pursuits of the lower orders has a long tradition in City firms. Obiter is just old enough to remember being invited to play darts with Herbert Smith partners and selected members of the press in an East End pub (the scores reflecting the ...
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Swanning about
We thought some readers might be interested in bidding for Up Before the Beak, a 5ft limited edition (unique, actually, come to think of it) swan sculpture. Sponsored by Wells solicitors Harris & Harris, he has been much admired over the summer but goes under ...
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Investment
Dealing in securities – Defendants issuing guaranteed notes – Claimants investing Azevedo and Alvarez v Imcopa Importacao, Exportaacao e Industria de Oleos Ltda and other companies: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court: 30 May 2012 ...
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Intellectual Property
European Union – Patent Eli Lilly and Co v Human Genome Sciences Inc: Chancery Division, Patents Court: 3 August 2012 The Chancery Division, Patents Court, refused the claimant's application for ...
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New public service ABS seeks investors
A niche London legal practice styled as the only UK firm focusing on public service delivery is seeking external investment after becoming an alternative business structure (ABS). TPP Law Limited, based in Bankside, central London, was founded over a decade ago by current managing director Mark ...
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Restrictive preventions
Alasdair Lewis, director of legal services at the Land Registry, is imprecise when he states in his letter from July that 'earlier this year [the Land Registry] launched a restriction aimed at owners who do not live at the registered property which has proved extremely popular with our customers’.
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Title teaser
I rather liked the proposal of Sandie Graff that solicitors should have ‘SSC’ after their names. This would be highly appropriate and would give the profession a bit of a boost as most practitioners one speaks to appear thoroughly fed up. Why ...
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LIP service to justice
‘Jennifer Garcia stood alone before a judge with a stack of legal papers in her hands, answering questions about her personal life.’ So opens an article on NBCNews.com about the increasing number of litigants in person in the US, and the plight of a 23-year-old mother ...
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Mediation deflation?
Is the government really serious about mediation? As one of the largest family law practices in Bristol, we have encouraged the use of mediation and collaborative law wherever possible. One of the unexpected consequences of the abolition of legal aid for family law from April 2013 is that the use ...
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SRA courts BME solicitors and sole practitioners
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has invited black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors to attend a workshop on outcomes-focused regulation (OFR) as part of its programme of ‘constructive engagement’ with stakeholders.
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Shipping
Charterparty – Arbitration Global Maritime Investments Ltd v STX Pan Ocean Co Ltd; Global Maritime Investments Ltd v Navios International Inc; Navios International Inc v Sangamon Transportation Group: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Christopher Clarke): 8 August ...
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Criminal law
Suicide - Liability for complicity in another's suicide R (on the application of Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v Director of Public Prosecutions and others: QBD (Admin) (Lord Justice Toulson, Mr Justice ...
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Magistrates
Jurisdiction - Laying of information Media Protection Services Ltd v Crawford and another: QBD (Admin) (Lord Justice Stanley Burnton and Mr Justice Kenneth Parker): 16 August 2012 The respondents were ...
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Corporate manslaughter
On 3 July 2012 Lion Steel Limited became the third company in the UK to be convicted of the statutory offence of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (the act). The case concerned the death of Stephen Berry on 29 May 2008, who died following ...
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Legal education system ‘not fit for purpose’
Evidence of ‘fundamental gaps’ in lawyers’ skills suggests that the current education system is not fit for purpose, according to a discussion paper published as part of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR).
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No holiday from clients
I am beginning to think that you and I are the only people who are not on holiday. Clients, judges, officers seem to go away. Everything gets slower at this time of year from the point of view of getting decisions and things done. Yet the pace of work in ...
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Money launderers set sights on new targets, Chancery Lane warns
The Law Society has warned litigation practices that money launderers are targeting matrimonial law and debt recovery. Guidance to help firms avoid being the victim of fraudsters has been reissued by Chancery Lane.