Law Society Gazette, 5 May 2014

Reform of regulation rejected

There is ‘no consensus’ on the way forward for legal services regulation and further simplification would require primary legislation. So declared justice minister Shailesh Vara last week, explaining the decision to steer clear of further reform of the statutory regime for regulating lawyers.

7 May 2004

EU expansion ‘threatens salaries’

UK lawyers’ salaries are threatened by outsourcing to or immigration from the new EU accession states – [where lawyers] are paid up to 13 times less than their UK counterparts – lawyers said this week in response to a salary survey. One example of work that could be outsourced to the EU accession states is defendant insurance work.

4 May 1994

Project Judith updates judges

The Lord Chancellor’s Department is to provide up to 300 judges, including most of those in the Royal Courts of Justice, with portable ‘notebook’ personal computers in a drive to increase the use of information technology in the courts. In the Project Judith computerisation programme judges will receive their PCs and appropriate training over a three-year period.

2 May 1984

The conveyancing monopoly

If non-solicitors are allowed to do conveyancing would it be in the interests of the profession to move into multi-disciplinary partnerships? Would a mixed firm of solicitors and chartered surveyors be able to offer a better service to the public than two separate firms do at present? Would the loss of business to be expected be more than offset by new business attracted by some kind of package deal?

May 1954

Lawyer and gentleman

Every solicitor who is also a commissioner for oaths has in his possession a document certifying not only that he is a solicitor but that he is a gentleman also. So far as I know it is the only written record a solicitor can produce in support of his alleged social status!

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