Law Society Gazette 10 November 2014

Labour set to back judiciary quotas

Quotas are needed to address under-representation of women and members of ethnic minorities in the senior judiciary, a report likely to become Labour party policy has recommended. Judicial Diversity: Accelerating Change, by Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC and Karon Monaghan QC, also proposes abolishing the circuit system and replacing it with regional appointments.

11 November 2004

Lords urged to throw out HIPs

Solicitors renewed their attack on the proposed home information packs as the Commons voted through a new version of the Housing Bill, which will reinstate the provision that the packs should be compulsory.

9 November 1994

Clean break advice to Diana

Princess Diana’s legal advisers will probably recommend that she accept a ‘once-and-for-all settlement in the region of £15m’ if the royal couple divorce, according to a leading matrimonial solicitor. Geoffrey Waters of Wedlake Bell predicted that the princess will require an annual income of £500,000 in order to maintain her current lifestyle.

7 November 1984

Postbox: Working mothers

Lady lawyers really are on the rampage. What alarms me is the prospect of so many determined young women leaving their families to be run by others while they catch the train to the office. No wonder there are so many broken homes.

November 1964

Obscenity and the law

There is no clear evidence that pornography does corrupt. Although the trade in obscene material undoubtedly has reached very considerable proportions and although immorality among young people is alleged to have increased alarmingly in recent years, no connection between the two phenomena can be established. Indeed, apparently most of those persons hanging around Soho and similar areas and purchasing obscene books and magazines are middle-aged men.

 

 

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