A stroll down Gazette memory lane

Gazette 6 September 2012

Grayling faces full in-tray at MoJ

Former broadcaster and management consultant Christopher Grayling has become the first non-lawyer to take the post of lord chancellor in the modern era. He was given the role alongside his justice secretary post in a reshuffle.

5 September 2002

Magic circle firms ensnared in Enron fallout

All five magic circle City firms could this week face a subpoena from the US to release any documents relating to work they have done for bankrupt energy company Enron.

9 September 1992

Moscow law school gets UK team

British justice may be under sharp criticism at home, but in the new democracy of the Russian Federation, tuition in its structure and workings is in hot demand. Six British lawyers are to conduct a nine-day ‘law school’ in Moscow, lecturing Russian practitioners and legal academics.

13 September 1972

Welsh in Welsh courts

What has caused all the controversy is the claim of some Welsh nationalists that, where a party to proceedings in a Welsh court so desires, the proceedings should be conducted in Welsh as a right and only translated in English if justice so requires. This is claim which is arguably justifiable on the basis of the language of the Welsh Language Act 1967. 

September 1962

Joining the EEC: Implications for English lawyers

It is important to understand the kind as well as the degree of commitment that is involved in subscribing to the Treaty of Rome, and the question ‘Will it be for ever?’ is one way of seeking to discover the essence of membership of the Common Market. What will matter in practice is not whether this country may de jure withdraw from the EEC at any future date, but whether it will de facto be able to do so once the community has been in existence for any length of time.

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