Last 3 months headlines – Page 746
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Brexit Britain won't escape new CJEU case law, say MPs
Committee report condemned as 'rushed skewed and partisan' points to complex task faced by Great Repeal Biill.
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KWM administrator's report reveals £1.2m pay out for advisers
Unsecured creditors 'unlikely’ to be paid due to estimated claims from preferential creditors, report states.
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Students pen letters to prisoners to plug legal aid gap
University of Sussex says clinic will help those who cannot afford a solicitor.
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Judge allows extra court fee payment to push damages to £140k
Case believed to be one of the first times the court has increased damages and permitted a party to pay extra fee.
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Super-firm to pay 25 trainees £10,000 to defer contracts
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang will pay trainees who are deferring training contracts by six months.
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Bar kicks off alternative business structure licensing
General Council of the Bar becomes fifth regulator allowed to approve non lawyer owned firms.
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NHS England prepares to ban PI firms from advertising in hospitals
Consultation to begin on restricting contracts that can be drawn up between lawyers and NHS trusts.
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Ukraine judged to have inadequate defence in $3bn Russian debt claim
Mr Justice Blair denies defence bid in case seen as tester for English courts’ clout.
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News focus: Loose circuit in judicial drive
Many City firms purport to be pleased when they discover a partner has applied for the bench, but the reality is that their aspiring judge risks being frozen out
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Solicitors' anger over late night court pilot
Solicitors claim the plans could restrict access to justice
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Six weeks to plead on PI discount rate
Lord chancellor offered comfort to claimant lawyers by saying victims should be paid damages that compensate them ‘fully’.
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A&O targets tech collaboration
Magic circle firm hoping to work with technology companies at its London HQ.
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In-house lawyers braced for a Byzantine Brexit
Law Society In-House Division looked at implications of leaving EU
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Signing off
Prime minister Theresa May signs a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk announcing, in accordance with article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the UK’s intention to withdraw from the EU. The government also published its proposals for a Great Repeal Bill, which would repeal the European Communities ...
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Lady Justice Macur is senior presiding judge
Lady Justice Macur takes up the post of senior presiding judge with effect from today following the appointment of Lord Justice Fulford as investigatory powers commissioner. Julia Macur was called to the bar in 1979.
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Food for thought
Liz Truss is having a hard time persuading members of the profession – and the wider chattering classes – that she is up to the job of lord chancellor. ‘If she is to be taken seriously in the post she needs to be sharper and better briefed,’ The Times’ leader ...
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Is it worth the vellum it’s written on?
Obiter must confess to being party to a small breach of parliamentary privilege when we reported a year ago on a reprieve for the practice of printing copies of acts of parliament on vellum.
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Fairground distraction
Experts may not be all they seem. In Hooten v Mississippi (1986) the defence called Marie B. Hill – who said she had given evidence in around 300 cases in Mississippi – as an expert witness, to show crucial handwriting was not that of Hooten.