Law Society Gazette 24 November 2014

Watchdog in limbo

The office of the chief legal ombudsman has not revealed how it plans to replace chief ombudsman Adam Sampson, who resigned from his £161,000 post last week following an investigation into the complaints service’s unpublished annual accounts. Sampson told the Gazette: ‘Although it is clear from the independent report and all the scrutiny of my expenses claims that I have not been dishonest and my integrity is intact, an ombudsman must be above controversy.’

25 November 2004

Prime concerns

A high-powered delegation from the Law Society and Bar Council met prime minister Tony Blair at Downing Street to raise issues of current concern. Society chief executive Janet Paraskeva said the lawyers urged Blair to ringfence the civil legal aid budget.

23 November 1994

Woolf proposes half-day trials

Personal injury lawyers have been shaken by a suggestion from Lord Woolf that court claims under £10,000 could be limited to a half-day hearing.  

21 November 1984

Electronic mailboxes

One significant development is the ‘electronic mailbox’, which in this country has become almost synonymous with BT’s Telecom Gold. With electronic mail a message is transmitted from a caller’s terminal – which can be anything from a computer system to a cheap electronic typewriter – via the public telephone system to a ‘mailbox’ in, say, BT’s computer.

20 November 1974

Do we sincerely want a wealth tax?

Now that we are assured of a period of purposive Wilsonian government, it is meet and proper to devote space to the government’s green paper on wealth tax. Genuine socialists will of course welcome the prospect of a wealth tax leading to increased state ownership. This is fair enough so long as they do not pretend it will do wonders for the living standards of the poor.

 

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