Last 3 months headlines – Page 1393
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Marching together
Why does Roger Smith assume that ‘most readers will never have been on a demonstration’. I, and most of my colleagues who work in publicly funded legal work, have been on countless demonstrations, relating to many different civil liberties issues over the years, and many ...
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Misusing ABSs
I refer to the letter from Tim O'Sullivan of the Bournemouth and District Law Society. I agree with his view, and predict that alternative business structures may lead to a tidal wave of claims arising from misuse of client money and the use of ABS law firms as a front ...
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Solicitor wants forum for ‘isolated’ NHS lawyers
A solicitor working in the National Health Service wants to create a forum for NHS lawyers, to reduce the sense of ‘isolation’ they may feel. Justin Day, commercial legal adviser at Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals Foundation Trust, wants the group to provide a setting ...
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Coalminer court actions set for 'special hearing’
All pending court actions brought by former coalminers who allege their solicitors did not claim adequate government compensation on their behalf have been suspended pending a special hearing in April, the Gazette has learned. The miners allege their solicitors did not claim adequate compensation for vibration ...
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Financially unsound
I read December’s article by the Solicitors Regulation Authority chair Charles Plant . I would like to respond to him through the same channel.
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'Bomb threats’ lead London firm to stop fileshare work
A London law firm has withdrawn from high-profile cases against alleged illegal file-sharers because of ‘criminal attacks’ and ‘bomb threats’. ACS:Law had been pursuing 26 cases on behalf of its client MediaCAT, which alleges that its copyright has been infringed by illegal file-sharers. But in a ...
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Six solicitors defend £50m fraud charges
Six solicitors charged with offences relating to a series of alleged commercial mortgage frauds worth a total of nearly £50m appeared in Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which brought the charges, alleges that the six solicitors and two non-solicitors ‘participated in ...
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Calunius Capital raises £40m fund
Third-party litigation funder Calunius Capital has raised £40m from a private fundraising in Guernsey, marking the first successful closure of a third-party litigation fund for 15 months. Calunius, which previously acted as a broker rather than an investor in litigation, will use its Calunius Litigation Risk ...
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Damaging free speech
Steven Heffer’s article is off the mark in a number of ways. In light of the recent judgment by the ECHR in MGN v UK on excessive success fees, along with the damning report by the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee and the Jackson review, it ...
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A practical approach to LPC over-subscription
by Rachel Falconer, West London Law Society Junior Lawyers Division committee member and solicitor with Hodders Law In October 2010, BPP announced the decision to open three new branches nationwide, namely in Cambridge, Newcastle and Liverpool. This announcement sparked a heated debate and provoked passionate challenges ...
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Aircraft purchase, Russian deal, water metering, and property
Easy purchase: City firm Norton Rose advised airline easyJet on buying 15 Airbus A320 aircraft worth $1.1bn (£700m); upgrading its order for 20 A319 aircraft to 20 A320 aircraft, and securing options for a further 33 A320 aircraft. Airbus was advised by its ...
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DLA Piper to merge with Australian firm
National firm DLA Piper is poised to merge with its Australian associate firm DLA Phillips Fox, the firms announced today. If partners approve the merger, DLA Piper, which posted global revenues of £581m for the 2009/10 financial year, would have the biggest Australian operation for a ...
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Students launch pro bono projects
The City Law School has joined forces with civil liberties group Liberty to launch a pro bono human rights advice clinic. The clinic, due to go live imminently, will give student solicitors and barristers a platform from which to advise members of the public on a ...
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Cuts will ‘prevent young lawyers from entering legal aid sector’
The proposed cuts to legal aid could prevent low-income students from entering the legal aid sector, the Junior Lawyers Division has warned. In response to the government’s consultation on legal aid reform, the JLD has said that the proposed £350m budget cuts will ‘severely affect’ entry ...
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Marketing budgets – not such a black art!
Are you in marketing budget limbo-land? Perhaps, you submitted your 2011 marketing budget for approval last year, but do not expect to hear what and how much has been approved for at least a month, maybe longer? Or maybe you are just starting ...
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Legal executive numbers grow
The ranks of legal executives are set to swell, as the number of people sitting Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) examinations climbed 40% in 2010 compared with the previous year. The examinations were taken for the Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice, which is ...
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Conveyancing Quality Scheme advertising campaign to launch
The Law Society is to launch a consumer-facing advertising campaign to promote its Conveyancing Quality Scheme this spring, it said last week. The campaign will feature online ‘pay per click’ banner advertising, as well as promotional material including posters and stickers which will be made available ...
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College of Law launches two-year law degree
The College of Law has developed a two-year law degree that will focus on improving students’ employment prospects and practical legal skills while covering the curriculum in the same depth as a traditional three-year course, it said this week.
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Solicitor Deal to head Appeals Unit
Solicitor Angela Deal (pictured) is to head the new specialist Appeals Unit launched today by the Crown Prosecution Service. The Appeals Unit, which is part of the Special Crime Division at CPS headquarters, was initially set up in June 2010, but has been taking on ...
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STEP members optimistic about 2011
More than half of the respondents to a survey of trust and estates practitioners expect that business across all areas of the practice they work in will ‘improve’ or ‘improve significantly’ over the coming year, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) has reported.