All Obiter articles – Page 79
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NewsScotland wants its crumbs
The Law Society of Scotland has teamed up with firms and the Scottish government to put the country’s legal services on the map.
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NewsEvidence? Then spill the beans
The quarrel over non-disclosure, particularly in rape cases, rumbles on. I see that austerity is now being blamed for the failure of the police and Crown Prosecution Service to realise that, in some cases, complainants are not being wholly frank. I also see a suggestion that bobbies are to be ...
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NewsBAME boost? Just do the maths
Latest SRA data from its biennial diversity survey was published last week along with a stern injunction from chief executive Paul Philip that there is ‘much more to do to achieve a truly diverse profession’.
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NewsEe by gum! What an advert
Ison Harrison has released a new ad which Obiter says is like a John Lewis Christmas effort put through a Yorkshire filter.
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News285-year-old firm is no stick-in-the-mud
Reading firm Blandy & Blandy LLP first took lease of 1 Friar Street at a rent of £4 a year in 1798.
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NewsIt’s like this, yer ’onour
We all know it is now a requirement for politicians to drop their aitches if they want to appeal to the masses.
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NewsDynamic duo
Armed with only an acoustic guitar and a cello, a pair of former Ashurst trainees have been making a noise in the City.
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NewsPresident Hale marks the wrong countdown
Premature four-minute warning in insurer-claimant case.
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NewsPetty treason
Justice minister Dr Phillip Lee wandered off-piste last week while musing on Brexit.
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NewsPhysician, heal thyself
Solicitors live in fear of a knock at the door from the heavies of the Legal Ombudsman. But what happens if the complaints-handler itself fails to satisfy?
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NewsName game to blame for crime
James Morton ponders the link between names and criminal behaviour.
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NewsMany happy returns of Cash for Crash Day
Stroke of luck for insurers that it falls in a quiet news day...
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NewsWhite Knight
Richard Burgon, solicitor and MP for East Leeds, took time out from haranguing the government over prisons privatisation last week to attend to a much more important constituency matter.
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NewsWe’ll always have Dudley, darling
Brierley Hill, near Dudley, may be charming but it is no Love Island. Midlands firm Higgs & Sons may disagree, however.
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NewsOver the line advertising
Staying with a sporting theme, we note that while the introduction of video referees has received a mixed reaction in football, the ‘third eye’ is long-established in other sports.
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NewsOffice politics
Newly appointed justice minister Rory Stewart, meanwhile, had a bit of a culture shock on moving to the Ministry of Justice’s building in Petty France.