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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike Pullen was born under a wandering star. The leading international trade lawyer grew up in a family of fairground people, attending school — until he was 12 — only for three months in winter.
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
As an Asian woman who uses a wheelchair, Husnara Begum laughs that she ticked every minority box when she applied for law school.
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are 2 things in the news today that caught my interest. The first is Gordon Brown's incessant calling for a World Banking system, The second centres around the Copenhagen talks on Global Warming.
Shaken Baby and unsafe convictions (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
No, surely not, expert witnesses exagerating .......? Who'd have thought eh! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8347410.stm CSI factor 'hurting crime cases' Fictional crime series like CSI are making real trials more difficult, a leading judge has warned. Lord Justice Leveson said witnesses were reluctant to come forward because of the mistaken belief that forensic and expert evidence was paramount. The...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Creditors of Lehman Brothers are facing further delay after a radical plan designed to speed up the investment bank’s administration was shot down for a second time this morning.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Times: Sex education is to be made compulsory for all pupils, prompting fury from faith groups which said that the move would contravene the right for children to be educated in accordance with their parents’ beliefs. All 15-year-olds must receive at least one year of sex and relationship lessons, Ed Balls, the [...]
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Further to my blog yesterday it has now been reported that the postal strikes, due to take place today and Monday, have been called off as a last minute agreement between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union has now been reached. For more details click here.
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sir Christopher Kelly has called this week for a ban on MP’s claiming cleaning expenses. However, the Work and Pensions Minister, Helen Goodman, has responded by suggesting that this would disadvantage female ministers, as more females than males usually undertake family cleaning, and that women would be put off standing for Parliament. What are your thoughts? Do you manage [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Would-be judges will no longer have to declare if they are Freemasons, the Government said yesterday.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The right of consumers to reject faulty goods must be retained in the UK despite European plans to abolish it, legal watchdogs said yesterday.
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Further postal strikes are currently scheduled for tomorrow and Monday. It is anticipated that the impact of these strikes will cause more disruption for customers than previous strikes as it is an all-out strike. However, union sources have said there may be a deal on the table and are hopeful that these strike actions will not therefore be necessary. Fingers crossed eh?!
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A dentist and his former City intern son were facing jail last night after being convicted of a £110,000 insider dealing scam.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Anna Mills, an associate solicitor in the contentious construction group at Lovells, acted under a conditional fee agreement for a rape complainant who was sued for £300,000 by her alleged rapist after his conviction was quashed. The Court of Appeal, in a landmark decision, ruled that the woman should not be exposed to such an unprecedented legal attack.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
What is the point of the Bar? As several hundred barristers meet in London this Saturday for their annual conference, it is a question they — as well as the public — might well ask. In the present recession their profession looks like becoming an enclave for the rich, both for those joining it and those using its services.
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