Last 3 months headlines – Page 1370
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Surveyors need solicitors to be up-to-date on dilapidations cases
Advances in construction techniques and material science have allowed for the design of more colourful and exciting buildings over the last twenty years. As well as new buildings, old buildings can be given a new lease of life by re-cladding the exterior, using these new ...
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Public backs compulsory mediation assessments
Two-thirds of the public support the new enforced mediation assessments being introduced for divorcing and separating couples tomorrow, according to research published by City firm Charles Russell. Under the rules, which come into force on 6 April, couples seeking to take private law family cases to ...
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The lessons from cases about Italian lawyers’ fees
Silvio Berlusconi thinks he is the most sued man in history. There is another Italian institution which has had its fair share of litigation recently in the EU’s Court of Justice, and that is the Italian legal profession. There was ...
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Personal injury solicitors will cut use of CFAs, poll finds
Personal injury lawyers will cut the number of conditional fee agreements they offer to clients as a direct result of the civil justice funding reforms announced by the government last week, according to research seen exclusively by the Gazette. A survey of 100 claimant personal injury ...
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CML predicts quality scheme will become ‘prerequisite’ for conveyancers
The Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) is expected to become a 'pre-requisite' for membership of lenders' panels once it becomes established, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said today. More than 700 firms have applied to join the quality assurance scheme since it launched in ...
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Clifford Chance opens in Istanbul
Magic circle firm Clifford Chance today opened an office in Istanbul, to work alongside affiliate Turkish firm Yegin Legal Consultancy. Banking and finance partner Simon Williams will head the office, which will focus on infrastructure, energy, finance, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets work. ...
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Extend social care to prisoners, report suggests
There is overwhelming support to extend adult social care services to prisoners and the mentally ill, but concerns remain about the resource implications for local authorities, responses to a Law Commission consultation have shown. The Law Commission yesterday published a report analysing the 231 responses it ...
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Criminal defence teams in Merseyside merger
Two well-known Liverpool firms have merged to create one of the largest criminal defence teams on Merseyside. Criminal law firm RM Broudie and the criminal law team at Jackson & Canter have joined forces to become RM Broudie Jackson & Canter – The Justice Partnership. ...
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APIL launches court action over compensation discount rate
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has alleged that a failure by the justice secretary to review the damages discount rate has led to some claimants being under-compensated by ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’. Launching a judicial review on the issue yesterday, APIL said that ...
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The current child maintenance system does not work
by Maria Miller MP, minister for work and pensions Thursday 7 April sees the end of our three month consultation period on our green paper reforms ‘Strengthening families, promoting parental responsibility: the future of child maintenance’.
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Solicitors from Hell ‘abusing court process’, judge finds
The owner of Solicitors from Hell, the website that blacklists law firms and solicitors, has been accused by a High Court judge of abusing the process of the court. In his judgment in the latest decided case against Rick Kordowski, published today, Mr Justice Tugendhat said ...
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Insurers are delighted by civil justice reforms
Our online report on the government’s decision to implement Lord Justice Jackson’s headline civil costs recommendations has nourished a little resentment in our readers – mainly aimed at our old friends in the insurance industry. ‘The premise that a "compensation culture" exists has been exposed as ...
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International document management
In a globalised environment where legal and regulatory matters can involve corporate subsidiaries spanning multiple jurisdictions, moving data from one country to another in order to respond to these matters can lead to significant legal, political and social challenges. The need to collect, review and produce ...
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Report shows drop in training contract places
The number of training contracts offered by law firms fell by 18% last year, Law Society figures have shown. The Society’s annual statistical report reveals that only 4,784 training contract places were offered in 2010, compared to 5,809 in 2009. The ...
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At the end of the line: is the solicitors' profession full?
Since 1960, when 19,069 solicitors held practising certificates (PCs), the number of solicitors with PCs rose by 2,000 a year on average to 117,862 by the end of July 2010. This number increased every year for 50 years except for 1971 and 1983. ...
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Complaints clinic: Legal Ombudsman
Effective communication and regular updates are key to managing clients’ expectations When I came into post a couple of years ago now, one thing was immediately clear to me. ...
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Social security
EU nationals - Habitual residence - Indirect discrimination - Justification Galina Patmalniece v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: SC (Lord Hope (deputy president), Justices of the Supreme Court Lord Rodger, Lord Walker, Lady Hale, Lord Brown): 16 ...
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Civil Procedure
Extradition - Appeal notice - European Arrest Warrants - Time limits Kane v Spain: QBD (Admin) (Mr Justice Collins) 17 March 2011 The appellant (K) appealed against a decision of ...
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Civil Procedure
Charities - Conditional permission - Permission to appeal - Protective costs orders R (on the application of Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR, Lords Justices Hooper, Rimer): ...
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Family Procedure Rules
The new Family Procedure Rules come into effect on 6 April. They are a welcome step in consolidating the existing disparate set of rules. They provide a single set of rules for family proceedings whether in the High Court, county courts or magistrates’ courts. No ...