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Law Society launches Excellence Awards
The Gazette will shortly be seeking a Legal Personality of the Year as one of this year’s Law Society Excellence Awards. For the second year running, we will be inviting readers to nominate lawyers who over the previous 12 months have made an outstanding contribution to ...
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Is government living up to the military covenant?
The notion of the military covenant, that members of the military and their family are owed fair treatment and proper support, in return for risking their lives at the discretion of policy-makers, is sound and accepted. Feelings run understandably high when anyone claims that the ...
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Chancery Lane seeks ‘pause’ to reforms of legal aid
The president of the Law Society has written to justice secretary Ken Clarke calling for a pause in the proposed legal aid reforms. Linda Lee said the proposals ‘amount to a fundamental reshaping of the legal aid scheme’, removing from scope many areas of law that ...
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Could Mary Portas help your law firm?
Imagine if your law firm was put to the test by a secret shopper – someone like TV celebrity guru Mary Portas, otherwise known as Mary Queen of Shops. How would it fare? After a high powered career in retailing, Portas forged ...
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Welcome to the family
History is certainly not bunk as far as traditionalist Obiter is concerned. So we offer our apologies to Peter Williamson for muddling our dates when we wrote last week that he was sitting Law Society president when his daughter Catherine was admitted in 2005. ...
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Clarke mulls privacy law
Ministers, newspaper editors and celebrities will turn their attentions to the Royal Courts of Justice later this week for a landmark development on injunctions. On Friday Lord Neuberger (pictured), master of the rolls, will issue a report on the use of injunctions by a committee of ...
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Sack Clarke? Be careful what you wish for Ed…
Dark clouds fill the sky over the Ministry of Justice, with Ken Clarke getting rained on from a great height. And to a large extent, he fully deserves his soaking. Even appearing to distinguish between ‘date rape’ and ‘serious rape’ (he ...
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No win no fee agreements are blamed for rise in medical negligence claims
No win no fee agreements have been blamed for a sharp rise in the number of medical negligence claims. The Medical Defence Union says claims increased by almost 20% in 2010 after several years of stable figures. More than half of the ...
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BLG announces profits boost
City firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has this week announced significant end-of-year profits. The firm recorded a 17% increase in turnover for 2010/11, and saw profits rise by 35% across the board. That figure took into account performance in both the ...
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MoJ publishes action plan to strengthen UK’s legal services position
Plans to strengthen the UK’s reputation as a global leader in legal services were unveiled by the government yesterday. The new action plan sets out how the Ministry of Justice and UK Trade & Industry aim to promote the UK as a centre of legal excellence, ...
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Legal Walk raises £500,000 for advice centres
Legal workers came out in force across the country yesterday for this year’s Legal Walk. More than 5,000 people joined in the event on Monday evening to raise £500,000 for free legal advice centres in London. The Gazette acted as media ...
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One more step towards a European contract law
Depending on the time of day at which you are reading this, you will need to take care not to spill either your cornflakes or cocktail. I am dealing with one of the topics which raises the blood pressure of any true patriot: European contract ...
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Court upholds right to bring judicial reviews ‘in the public interest’
A civil liberties campaigner has won a judicial review of the government’s attempt to remove legal aid for cases brought ‘in the public interest’. Maya Evans, represented by Birmingham firm Public Interest Lawyers, challenged amendments made to the Legal Services Commission’s funding code that meant ...
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Better several months too soon for tax returns
It’s never too early to start thinking about the 2010/11 tax year and the 31 January deadline for tax returns that seems to creep up on us faster and faster each year. Last month the government extended the penalty regime for late filing of ...
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Concessions expected in legal aid bill due next month
The bill to implement the government’s legal aid reforms is to be published next month, and is likely to contain some key concessions, the Gazette has been told. Sources within Parliament have indicated that the rules for funding in private family cases, where there is an ...
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Sky News launches live Supreme Court coverage
Sky News has today launched live coverage of proceedings in the UK’s Supreme Court. The court’s hearings and judgments can now be ...
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Onside Law advises on Ryder Cup
Sport specialist firm Onside Law has taken a major role in the destination of one of golf’s biggest tournaments. The firm advised on all aspects of the bid process to host the 2018 Ryder Cup, with a decision expected to be announced tomorrow. ...
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Hogan Lovells facilitates deal to save fashion group
City firm Hogan Lovells has helped to facilitate a deal to save fashion chain All Saints and secure hundreds of jobs. The firm has advised Lloyds TSB on its ongoing financing of the company, which was this week bought by private equity investors Lion Capital and ...
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Where is the evidence of a need for employment law changes?
Those nice folk who gave us the ‘bonfire of the quangos’, not to mention swingeing cuts to legal aid, social care and arts funding, are now turning their gimlet eyes to employment law. The coalition government announced on Tuesday that there is to be a ‘review ...