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Gazette 21 June 2012

Quindell unveils claims venture

A stock-exchange-listed company has added a claims management venture to its portfolio in response to the impending ban on personal injury referral fees. Quindell has already applied to become an alternative business structure following its £19.3m acquisition of personal injury firm Silverbeck Rymer.

20 June 2002

The case for the defence

Criminal defence lawyers provide an ideal punchbag in the perennial game of lawyer-bashing. Two paragraphs in an 84-page Audit Commission report on the criminal justice system suggested that the fee structure is open to abuse by defence lawyers stringing out cases. And the new criminal justice minister, Lord Falconer QC, was more than happy to throw oil on the fire.

24 June 1992

Warning on access to the profession

There is a real danger that entry to the solicitors’ profession will become limited to those with private means, the president of the Law Society warned last week in a plea to the secretary of state for education, John Patten, to allow mandatory grants for the legal practice course and for conversion courses taken by non-law graduates.

21 June 1972

Protecting the shopper

Shoplifters break the law, but the supermarket owners put on a display of easily-reached goods and carry no legal responsibility for their actions. It would be wrong to say their actions are unlawful, but it is a matter of plain common sense that in some instances the sales-building techniques of the supermarket operators are an inducement to crime.

June 1942

Marine casualties

The council have been asked by the Ministry of War Transport to direct the attention of members of the profession to the need, in order to avoid giving information to the enemy, for taking certain precautions in drawing or preparing documents in matters connected with shipping casualties.

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