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Green leases
Last year I took part in a debate on sustainable, or ‘green’ leases, at one of the events organised at the Law Society by Pamela Castle OBE, chair of the National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials. It brought together scientists, lawyers and policy makers in public debate. Also ...
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Further reforms to the NCBC
My recent article dealt with the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/3013) which came into force on 19 March 2012. These rules, together with practice direction (PD) changes in update 58, dealt with the necessary procedural changes caused by the establishment of the National Civil Business Centre ...
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Tip of the iceberg
I couldn’t agree more with the letter ‘Passing the buck’ from Howard Shelley. However, what Mr Shelley identifies is only the tip of the iceberg. I am currently researching the accident compensation process for road traffic accidents with a value of £10k, as part of a ...
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Secrets and lies
One might have thought that the proposal for ‘secret trials’ reported in last week’s Law Society Gazette would have prompted something rather stronger than the article which appeared in the 8 March issue.
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Employment
Employment tribunal - Procedure - Hearing - Adjournment O’Cathail v Transport for London: EAT (Judge Richardson, Mr A Harris and Mr J Rivers): 13 January 2012 The employee was employed ...
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Immigration
Appeal - Deportation - Appeal against deportation on national security grounds W (Algeria) and another v Secretary of State for the Home Department; PP (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Z (Algeria) and others v ...
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CPS commits to serving paper files
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has pledged to continue serving paper documents to defence solicitors amid concerns about its plan to go digital from April. However, the Law Society said this week that criminal solicitors will continue to face ‘financial and regulatory risks’ in preparing ...
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Civil court group anger over Salford system
A body whose membership spends around £49m a year in the civil courts has questioned why the new centralised facility to handle money claims in civil cases was launched earlier this week without its long-awaited payment by account (PbA) electronic system. The vice chair of the ...
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Sole practitioners 'unthreatened' by ABSs
Alternative business structures are more of an opportunity than a threat to sole practitioners, whose numbers are back to pre-recession levels, leaders in the sector have told the Gazette. Latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority show there were 3,568 sole practitioners in February - ...
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'One-size' Jackson-style reforms wrong, Scots told
Scottish legislators have been warned not to simply ‘bolt on’ reforms from south of the border in their Jackson-style review of civil litigation. A public consultation closed last Friday on an 18-month review of the Scottish civil litigation system being carried out by Sheriff Principal ...
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HSE postpones cost recovery plan
The Health and Safety Executive has postponed the launch of its new cost recovery scheme for at least six months. The organisation planned to launch the Fee for Intervention scheme next month to recover costs from health and safety offenders. The money was to cover the ...
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Disclosure
Pre-trial or post-judgment relief - Disclosure of documents - Orders being made in phone-hacking case limiting disclosure of court documents Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd and another: ChD (Mr Justice Vos): 27 February 2012 ...
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Revised FIT hit in solar plexus
Government plans to amend the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) scheme were torpedoed again on 25 January, this time by the Court of Appeal. The scheme had already taken a first instance hit before Christmas with the judgment of Mitting J. However, following the Court of Appeal’s judgment, and while former energy ...
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Closing QS member blames Jackson
A two-partner member of the QualitySolicitors network has blamed its closure on the Jackson reforms and the ‘spectre’ of reduced fees for personal injury claims. QualitySolicitors Carters, which carried out personal injury and clinical negligence work, ceased trading at the end of February. The 10-year-old Peterborough ...
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ECHR withdrawal ‘gift to Putin’
Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin’s ‘best present ever’, an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.
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Sports law: rules of the game
The complex web of commercial and regulatory issues that surrounds sport is occupying an ever-increasing amount of lawyers’ time. That was evident at the Law Society’s Sports Law Conference, held at Chancery Lane last week. It may be true that, as Charles Russell partner Simon Johnson told the conference, ‘a ...