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Claims firms to become ‘advertising wing of ABSs’
Claims management companies have already agreed pre-contract deals with law firms to become alternative business structures (ABSs), according to their governing body.
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De-lawyering small claims
Amid all the hoo-ha over the headline aspects of the government’s reforms to civil litigation - the end of many of the rules underpinning conditional fee agreements in personal injury, for example - it is easy to overlook a rather quieter change that could have a big impact on commercial ...
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PC renewals update
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has today issued a statement informing solicitors that they will be able to renew their registration, recognition or practising certificate from 21 November. Solicitors are asked to visit the SRA site on 18 November, when the regulator will confirm whether or not ...
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Quality, quantity or both?
With the announcement of another new legal services brand, ‘Simplify the Law’, firms are being presented with an increasing complex choice of partner organisations. Solicitors’ enquiry services can be a useful additional source of business, however firms need to correctly manage these services, choose them carefully and avoid a couple ...
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Focus on new markets to survive house-buying collapse, conveyancers told
Residential conveyancers should focus on landlords and investors to survive the collapse in the traditional market, property lawyers were told this week. Yolande Barnes, director of residential research at estate agents Savills, told a Law Society property conference there is a ‘fundamental structural change’ in the ...
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Court officer is Bribery Act’s first catch
A court officer today pleaded guilty to taking a £500 bribe in the first prosecution under the 2010 Bribery Act. Munir Patel admitted the charge of bribery and misconduct in public office when he appeared at Southwark Crown Court. He will be ...
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Quality assurance scheme to go ahead from April
The architects of a scheme to assure the quality of criminal advocates say it is back on track to start in April 2012. The Joint Advocacy Group (JAG) said that the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates has been tweaked to ensure it ‘protects the public ...
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Construction
Building contract - Adjudication - Award Witney Town Council v Beam Construction (Cheltenham) Limited: Queen's Bench Division, Technology and Construction Court (Mr Justice Akenhead): 12 September 2011 Having concluded that ...
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Employment
Health and safety at work - Organisation of working time - Rest breaks Hughes v Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Sir Anthony May, president, Lords Justice Thomas, Elias): 8 September 2011 ...
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Hargreaves’ IP framework
On 3 August, the government published its response to the independent review of the intellectual property framework carried out by the journalist, academic and public servant, Professor Ian Hargreaves. The review set out to determine whether copyright laws obstruct innovation and economic growth, preventing companies such as Google (that relies ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v H: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Elias, Mr Justice Maddison, Mr Justice Burnett): 27 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, ...
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Sentencing
Custodial sentence - Dangerous offenders - Robbery R v McKenzie: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, Mr Justice Underhill): 29 September 2011 The Court of ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Claimants coming to United Kingdom in 2000 R (on the application of Mine) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (Mr Justice Simon): 9 September ...
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Removing an arbitrator on grounds of bias
One of the fundamental principles upon which arbitration rests is the entitlement of each party to have a fair hearing by an impartial arbitral tribunal. Indeed, this is a principle upheld by article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights. And this is also ...
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Immigration
Leave to enter - Indefinite leave Bah v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights (Garlicki, President, Bratza, Mijovic, Hirvela, Nicolaou, Bianku and De Gaetano): 27 September 2011 The European ...
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Immigration
Leave to enter - Indefinite leave Bah v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights (Garlicki, President, Bratza, Mijovic, Hirvela, Nicolaou, Bianku and De Gaetano): 27 September 2011 The European ...