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Libel and slander
Publication - Internet posting - Claimant bringing libel action against first and second defendant companies Tamiz v Google Inc and another: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Eady): 2 March 2012 ...
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Conflict of laws
Jurisdiction - Challenge to jurisdiction - Civil and commercial matters Merchant International Co Ltd v Natsionalna Aktsionerna Kompaniia 'Naftogaz Ukrayiny': Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger MR, Lord Justices Hooper and Toulson): 29 February 2012 ...
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Insolvency
Administration - Client funds - Company providing services for clients wishing to invest in securities Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration): Supreme Court (Lords Hope DP, Walker, Clarke, Dyson and Collins): 29 February 2012 ...
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The training contract: which way forward?
In a rapidly changing legal services market, just how fit for purpose is the training contract in ensuring access to the profession is open and diverse and in preparing the next generation of lawyers? The profession-wide Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) is asking tough questions about how and when ...
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Employment
Workplace stress - Employee diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome MacLennan v Hartford Europe Ltd: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Hickinbottom): 24 February 2012 The Queen's Bench Division held that given ...
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Avoiding another costs war
The purpose of this article is to avert Costs War II. If the Ministry of Justice takes no notice of it and a costs war ensues, it will not be able to say that it was not warned.
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Intellectual property
Application - Supplementary protection certificate - Application University of Queensland and another v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks: ChD (Patents) (Mr Justice Arnold): 14 February 2012 The first ...
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Valuation of general damages in mesothelioma claims
Unless one has been in a life-threatening situation, it is impossible to grasp the concept of imminent mortality. When young, human beings are blinded from seeing the horizon of their lives by the light of expectation.
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Accident waiting to happen
Your feature on work experience made interesting reading. Until a few years ago, I always used to take school students (usually fourth or fifth year) for a week or two. They used to come to court with me and sit in with clients (with clients’ consent ...
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Passing the buck
I was consulted by a client who had become completely lost in the claims management process, and even now I am unsure that I have managed to untangle the complex relationships between the various corporate bodies involved.
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Fair game
Although the most obvious response to the letter from David Enright is that the concept of justice cannot be reduced to a mathematical equation, it is nevertheless true that there are objective criteria that can be considered and evaluated in some way. Therefore the concept may have some merit.
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Simple maths
With reference to David Enright's letter, I do not understand why his ‘equation’ for justice: J = FP+EAOFT is not simply expressed J = FP+EA+OFT ie the element ‘OFT’ (objectively fair tribunal) should be an addend not a denominator.
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Banks face £1bn blizzard of funded suits
Venture capital firms are backing litigation worth up to £1bn against major banks over the alleged misselling of interest rate hedging contracts, the Gazette can reveal. A group of cases identified by the company that has secured the backing of funds for the claims, Norton ...
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Law Society survey to probe wellbeing
Solicitors are to be questioned on how rapid changes to the legal landscape are affecting their state of mind. The Law Society will include research on members’ wellbeing as part of its survey of the membership this summer. A membership board report says the Society should ...
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We’ll cope, says Salford claims centre chief
Managers at the new county court money claims centre in Salford are confident that it will be able to cope with going fully operational on Monday (19 March) despite a barrage of complaints about its service so far. Manager Jason Latham told the Gazette that ...
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PM's adoption reform prompts warning
Lawyers have welcomed the prime minister’s proposal for legislation to speed up the adoption process, but warned that changes could lead to increased legal challenges. An action plan due to be launched yesterday will require local authorities to find adoptive parents within three months, or to place children on the ...
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More time for LDPs to mull ABS options
Hundreds of legal disciplinary practices (LDPs) have been given more time to decide how to approach the new era of legal services regulation. Under the terms of the 2007 Legal Services Act, some 250 LDPs in England and Wales with non-lawyer managers must decide whether ...
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Deech confident about QASA roll-out
The controversial accreditation scheme for advocates has the support of judges and will go ahead, the chair of the Bar Standards Board has said amid a continuing dispute with the Solicitors Regulation Authority.