Last 3 months headlines – Page 1354
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Rightmove founder enters conveyancing market
The founder of Rightmove has today launched online residential conveyancing service In-deed, intended to shake-up the conveyancing market. Harry Hill, the founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of estate agency Countrywide, said the service would make the home sale process simpler, more transparent and ...
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QualitySolicitors: watch our exclusive interview with Craig Holt
Brands will dominate the legal market when alternative business structures are introduced this October – and firms that have not joined a network such as QualitySolicitors or do not do work for larger brands will find the market ‘very small indeed’. So argues a bullish Craig ...
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Legal aid award finalists announced
The Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group has announced the finalists for its Lawyer of the Year 2011. They include Razi Shah, solicitor at Windsor firm Appleby Shaw, who successfully appealed against the custodial sentence given to Munir Hussain. Hussain had been convicted ...
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Why lawyers say yes to work experience students
In common with many firms, there are times in the year where we have work shadowers, or interns if you are really posh. Whatever you call them they write in or email begging for a position. The summer is the same if not more busy. ...
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Neuberger sets out injunctions review
The UK’s leading judges have warned MPs not to abuse their parliamentary privilege to break the privacy achieved by injunctions. Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, appeared before the media this morning to set out a review of injunctions. The report ...
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Legal executives should be on ‘equal footing’ to solicitors, claims ILEX
Legal executives should be able to provide the full breadth of services ‘on an equal footing’ to solicitors, the president of the Institute of Legal Executives said yesterday. David McGrady said securing further rights for ILEX members remains the goal of the professional body. ...
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Injunction case is reminder that partners have employment rights
A High Court ruling in Clyde & Co v Van Winkelhof, reported on 22 March, has highlighted how, even though a member of an LLP or partner may not be an employee, they can still avail themselves of rights traditionally regarded as employment rights. Most ...
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Bar Standards Board reviews barristers’ CPD requirements
The Bar Standards Board has announced a review of the continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for barristers. The biggest proposed change would see an increase in the number of CPD hours that members of the bar are required to do each year, doubling it from 12 to 24. A more ...
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Ian Tomlinson inquest proves we have moved forwards
Thirty years ago, I was the researcher for an independent inquiry into the death of Blair Peach. It was run by a bright young secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt. The case of Ian Tomlinson brought ...
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Telecommunications
Dispute resolution - Jurisdiction - Mobile telephony - Telephone charges British Telecommunications Plc (appellant) v Office of Communications (respondent) & (1) Everything Everywhere Ltd (2) Hutchison 3g UK Ltd (interveners): British Telecommunications Plc (appellant) v Office of Communications (respondent) ...
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Intellectual Property
Broadcasters - Costs capping orders - Deception - Unfair advantage - Trainee solicitors (1) A&E Television Networks LLC (2) AETN UK v Discovery ...
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Public sector equality duty
If you want a sombre take on equality then seventeenth-century poet James Shirley is your man. For he reminds us that we all share a certain mortal destiny. And since death will eventually lay ‘his icy hand on kings’ so ‘Sceptre and crown/Must tumble down/And ...
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Criminal procedure
Adjournment - Disclosure - Due diligence - Adjournment of trial date R (on the application of Arshad) (claimant) v Southwark Crown Court (defendant) & Mohammed Butt (interested party): DC (Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Kenneth Parker): 5 May 2011 ...
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Christianity needs more than just ceremonial support
In his letter of 6 May pertaining to the Comment piece by Andrea Minichiello Williams, ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’, Charlie Klendjian does not appear to have as full a grasp of the facts as he claims. First, the Queen, despite her Coronation Oath, has ...
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Pointing the finger at ideologies
In ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’ (28 April), Andrea Minichiello Williams makes the statement, ‘law cannot be divorced from Christianity’, while criticising totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism.
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The law comes first
I read the ‘Comment’ article by Andrea Minichiello Williams. The bottom line has to be that no one should expect to be able to put their own beliefs before the law without consequences. People are, perhaps, arrested, sacked and so ...
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That’s religious progress
In her article about ‘Christian persecution’, Andrea Minichiello Williams writes that, for hundreds of years, ‘most of the great advances in public life, in health care, education and social provision, came as a result of Christian conviction that cares for the good of all’. If ...
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Pro bono approval
On 12 May Jonathan Rayner reported on the ‘outcry’ that has arisen because in-house lawyers might be prevented from working pro bono. In addressing this issue, two principles should be kept in balance: