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Middle Eastern promise
Fancy somewhere different for a holiday this year? With sunshine, mountains and a fascinating local culture and history? Obiter suggests Iraqi Kurdistan. The semi-autonomous province is accessible, friendly and the prospect of oil wealth has encouraged a spate of luxury hotel building. Though you’ll want to avoid the seven-star end ...
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Easy Ryder
Nice to see the national press playing to stereotype at the lord chief justice’s annual press conference at the Royal Courts of Justice last week. The Daily Mail asked if capital punishment should return, the Evening Standard wanted to know if the Abu Hamza case had ...
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Focus on value proposition
Law firm marketing is often seen as the department which does the brochures, the website and runs events. It is relatively rare that the marketing team is consulted in areas such as pricing, but all a firm’s effort and expenditure on promotion may amount to nothing if the solicitor receiving ...
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Novel approach
The irresistible combination of culture, charity and immigration law was enough to send Obiter hotfooting it across London last week to hear novelist Marina Lewycka (pictured) reading excerpts from her latest book, Various Pets Alive and Dead. Author of the improbably named bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, ...
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Immigration
Liberty - Detention - Sentence of imprisonment for public protection Secretary of State for the Home Department v FV (Italy): CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Pill, Aikens, Lady Justice Rafferty): 14 September 2012 ...
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Labour conference: Khan he deliver the goods?
The centrepiece of Labour’s conference, as with any party conference, was the leader’s speech. In Manchester Ed Miliband’s hour-long noteless oration went down well with the press on performance, but it was noticeably lacking on the minor detail of policy. I seemed to spend my ...
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Criminal reaccreditation scheme on hold
The Law Society has postponed plans to reaccredit criminal solicitors every five years, following consultation with the profession. The Society consulted in April on a proposal that members of the Criminal Litigation Accreditation Scheme (CLAS) should undergo a regulatory check every five years, confirming that they ...
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Human rights
Liberty - Detention - Sentence of imprisonment for public protection James and others v United Kingdom (app nos 25119/09, 57715/09 and 57877/09): European Court of Human Rights (Judges Lech Garlicki (president), David Thór Björgvinsson, Nicolas Bratza, George Nicolaou, Zdravka ...
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IBA 2012: 'banker to the poor' calls for company law rethink
Nobel Peace laureate and anti-poverty campaigner Professor Muhammad Yunus today called for a fundamental rethink of company law in order to help the world's poor. The Bangladeshi banker and former economics professor wants to see a relaxation of the obligation on public company directors to ...
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Memory lane
Law Society’s Gazette, 11 October 1972 Excerpts from the inaugural address by President of the Law Society Sir Desmond Heap LLM People and Lawyers It is a matter of astonishment for lawyers that they seem to be regarded ...
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Saga targets confused legal consumers
Over-50s holiday specialist Saga said it would target clients ‘bamboozled’ by jargon as it became the second consumer brand name to enter the legal services market. Roger Ramsden, chief executive of Saga Services, said: ‘People want legal advice and products at a price they understand, ...
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Banks agree new protocol for estate administration
New rules for the exchange of information between banks and solicitors administering an estate have been agreed by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), the Law Society and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
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Squatting made a criminal offence
Historically if a property owner or occupier was not able to 'persuade' squatters to leave residential property the property owner or occupier was only able to use one of two legal processes to evict a squatter from residential property: ...
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We’re keeping our options open, says ABS applicant AA
Breakdown recovery and insurance business AA has insisted it is merely ‘keeping its options open’ by applying for an alternative business structure licence. The company today confirmed it has applied to the Solicitors Regulation Authority with a view to providing legal services in the future. It ...
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IBA 2012: inside the bubble
At the risk of appearing graceless to my host, I can't help wondering if the International Bar Association ought to be more important than it is. After all, the world's biggest organisation of international bars and legal practitioners has this week convened what is thought to be the biggest gathering ...
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Khan: we’ll be tough on the causes of reoffending
A women’s justice board and a minister to tackle offenders’ mental health problems would be among a Labour government’s plans to fight crime and open a ‘war on reoffending’, the shadow justice secretary told the Labour party conference today.
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Justice names new chief
Campaign group Justice has appointed human rights lawyer Andrea Coomber (pictured) as its new director. Coomber, currently legal director of the international human rights organisation Interights, replaces Roger Smith. Smith announced his decision to step down in May after 11 years in the post. ...
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No turning back on cuts under Labour, says Khan
A future Labour government will not increase funding for criminal justice, the shadow justice secretary said today, but will look to promote ‘more effective and less expensive’ alternatives to custody and price-competitive tendering for criminal defence services.
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IBA 2012: public opinion 'immune' to torture since 9/11
People in liberal democracies have become 'immune' to the obscenity of torture since the US launched its 'war on terror', one of the world's great human rights champions told the International Bar Association conference today. Juan E Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other ...