All Obiter articles – Page 11
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NewsCautionary tales for Christmas
James Morton finds some grim seasonal episodes in the legal archives.
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NewsObiter special: The snows of Carey Street
Obiter Productions presents a short story (with apologies to Papa Hemingway)
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NewsSRA ducks and dives before depleted justice committee
Only four MPs turned up for the questioning of the Law Society and two regulators.
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NewsMartyn won’t be calling it a Day
Obiter ventured north on the West Coast main line to celebrate the opening of high-profile firm Leigh Day’s human rights department in Manchester.
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NewsAttack and defence as MP savages CILEX
Obiter braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to head to committee room 15 in the Palace of Westminster, where representatives of the Bar Council, Bar Standards Board, CILEX and CILEx Regulation were grilled by the Commons justice select committee on regulation of the legal professions.
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NewsShuja scoops lifetime achievement award
Lubna Shuja, immediate past president of the Law Society, picked up a lifetime achievement award at the Asian Legal Awards at a glittering ceremony in central London last Saturday.
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NewsFrom shoplifting to much worse?
Not all thieves will move on to worse, but there is sufficient evidence to show that many of them will graduate.
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NewsYule’s out
LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group) invites you to its annual Christmas carol concert ‘Carols for Pro Bono’.
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NewsSRA conference call
Local government lawyers may struggle to attend the regulator's next in-house conference.
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NewsIsn’t it Ironic?
Contested application for an eight-month adjournment is listed. For 10 months’ time.
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NewsMemory lane
'Failure to embrace' flexible work, a cull on crime firms and dealing with shoplifters: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsA bluffer’s guide to AI chat (GPT)
Obiter’s tips for becoming an instant artificial intelligence guru.
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NewsLady chief justice prematurely put out to grass
Dame Sue Carr tells of being ordered to return all her departmental IT kit.
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NewsHidden in plain sight
What connects Samuel Pepys’ diary, cosmetics and an elderly lady hiding her pearls?
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NewsWindow dressing
Ministry of Justice’s headquarters in Petty France, London, gains some new decorations.
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NewsHollywood court drama takes the stage
Gwyneth Goes Skiing opens next month at the Pleasance theatre, in north London.
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NewsJudge’s froideur turns up the heat
Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor recalls action she took to get heating and air con fixed at Southwark Crown Court.
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NewsCounsel get into the weeds
While knotweed itself is no joke, the opening day of Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil – the Japanese knotweed ADR case - had moments of humour.