All Obiter articles – Page 79
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NewsVery English Scandal: if in doubt, cut the solicitor
Two larger-than-life characters made only passing appearances in the climactic episode of BBC's Thorpe drama.
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NewsRelax with the smooth tones of Leigh Day
Jazz band Permission to Appeal serenaded the London Legal Walk.
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NewsCourts protest attracts the boys in blue
Protest against HMCTS reforms Source: Michael Cross Protest against HMCTS reforms Lawyers say no to ‘quick fit justice’.
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NewsIn New York, concrete jungle where tweets are made of
Twitter users ask the impossible of New York Bar Association.
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NewsFrom defender to fraudster
Edmund O’Connor, an Irish solicitor of 100 years ago, appeared for William Podmore at the 1928 inquest on Vivian Messiter. James Morton His client, alleged to have moved Messiter’s body, was only 5’ 3”, and the deceased a much bigger man. O’Connor persuaded the pathologist to try ...
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NewsHyde in plain sight
In October, HMCTS chief Susan Acland-Hood noted that transparency, and more specifically ‘clear lines of sight and good accountability’, were among her guiding principles. John Hyde This ambition did not seem to extend to her department’s communications manager, who wrote to Gazette deputy news editor John ...
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NewsOff the hook
Chancellor of the High Court couldn’t resist looking backwards as well as forwards in his Future of Law lecture.
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NewsOf tiffs and tweets
Two of the biggest names in the legal Twitterati appear to have fallen out.
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NewsMeaning of the Worboys affair
The John Worboys affair throws up more questions than it answers. Is the case being hijacked by moral entrepreneurs and used to have sentences for rape increased? And will it open the floodgates for what amount to appeals by victims against Parole Board decisions? How will these be funded? Legal ...
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NewsWarby’s novel solution
Justice Warby’s judgment in the landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ case against Google.