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Regulator considers ‘reflective approach’ on continuing professional development
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to commission research on continuing professional development schemes in other professions and internationally as part of its review of CPD, the Gazette has learned. The regulator said it will examine a range of schemes in use, including the more ‘reflective’ approach ...
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Lib Dems call for legal aid to be retained in benefits appeals
The Liberal Democrats have condemned the cuts to legal aid for welfare benefits appeals. At its autumn conference, the party called on the government to retain legal aid for people appealing welfare benefit decisions, and voted through a motion condemning the government’s welfare reform plans. ...
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Community sentences are no soft option
The prison population has reached a record high of 87,120, according to figures released on Friday by the Ministry of Justice. But does being tough on crime mean offenders have to go to prison, or are community sentences and reparation actually tougher? And are the latter ...
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New solicitor training model could shake up the City
A groundbreaking solicitor training model has launched this week, targeting City law firms and in-house legal departments. The first non-legal service provider to be authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to take on trainees, Acculaw claims it will cut costs and improve efficiency for firms looking ...
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Law Society announces Excellence Awards shortlist
The Law Society has today unveiled the shortlist of lawyers and firms nominated for this year’s Excellence Awards. The 17 awards recognise outstanding achievement by legal professionals at firms of all sizes across England and Wales, in categories ranging from community investment to client service, with ...
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LSC ‘performed strongly’ in 2010/11, says MoJ
The departing chief executive of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) cut the organisation’s running costs by 11% in 2010/11. Carolyn Downs achieved a £15m underspend on the organisation’s £135m administrative budget, through ‘targeted efficiency savings generated in year against staff, estates and costs’. ...
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Decisive actions are needed in changing times
Despite the delay in the regulation to license alternative business structures and the full implementation of the Legal Services Act, it is imperative that law firms decide now what direction their firm is planning to take. We can categorise the profession simply into three areas; the ...
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Insolvency
Company - Voluntary winding up - Liquidator Re Sunwing Vacation Inc and others: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Morgan): 22 June 2011 The Chancery Division of the High Court allowed the ...
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Discrimination
Social security - Services for sick and disabled persons - Assessment of needs of sick and disabled persons JG and MB v Lancashire County Council: Administrative Court (Manchester) (Mr Justice Kenneth Parker): 2 September 2011 ...
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Employment
Employer’s duty to consult - Failure to consult union - Affected employee seeking protective award against employer Independent Insurance Co Ltd (in provisional liquidation) v Aspinall and another: EAT (Judge Serota QC, Mr D Bleiman, Mr J R Rivers): ...
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Unless orders - securing a party’s compliance
Unless orders (otherwise known as Hadkinson orders) were established in Hadkinson v Hadkinson [1952] P 285, CA. Although still relatively uncommon, there has been a series of reported cases where the power has been used by the courts over the last few years. It is an approach to be used ...
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Arbitration
Award - Enforcement - Freezing order - Claimant appealing Mobile Telesystems Finance SA v Nomihold Securities Inc: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Ward, Tomlinson): 1 September 2011 The claimant company, ...
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Immigration
Asylum seeker - Detention - Claimant being detained prior to deportation R (on the application of S) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: QBD (Admin) (David Elvin QC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court): ...
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Environmental considerations are rising up the law firm management agenda
Environmental issues have steadily climbed up law firms’ agendas. As corporates seek to capitalise on both consumers’ growing awareness of the need to save the planet, and government incentives on the environment, solicitors, as part of their clients’ supply chain, are responding by boosting their own green credentials.
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Employment
Determination whether dismissal fair or unfair - Dismissal for misconduct - Employee failing to follow instruction and being dismissed Oudahar v Esporta Group Ltd: EAT (Judge Richardson, Mr D Evans, Mr B Warman): 22 July 2011 ...
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Criminal procedure
Unsafe conviction - Bias - Defendant appearing before Crown court - Recorder criticising defence statement R v Malcolm: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Lord Justice Hooper, Mr Justice Blair): 1 September 2011 ...
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Duty of candour plans 'watered down'
The government proposes to introduce a duty of candour as part of its health reforms, requiring hospitals to tell patients when they have made mistakes - a move that follows a long campaign by Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) and other patient safety bodies. While the plans are welcome and ...
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David Cameron’s comments on human rights were prejudiced
In the modern world, the domestic and the international become entwined. News of David Cameron’s assault on the Human Rights Act in the aftermath of the riots was noted around the globe. The Tehran Times quoted the prime minister as saying that ‘human rights and health and safety can interfere ...
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UK ‘unattractive’ to foreign legal high-flyers
The government’s commitment to reducing net migration to the UK will do long-term damage to the competitiveness of UK law firms and inhibit their ability to develop business internationally, the Law Society’s immigration law committee (ILC) has warned. Law firms have told the ILC that, under ...