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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Linklaters, Britain’s second-biggest law firm, disclosed a 10 per cent fall in first-half revenue to £591 million today as the legal market continues to suffer from the lack of big deals.
Binary Law (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jason Wilson explores the pros and cons of what he dubs “eLawtric Books“. In a series of posts he (for the most part) counters Eugene Volokh’s thoughts on the future of electronic books and the law. His view, with which I agree, is that ebooks a la Kindle et al are not the future of law [...]
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
You have a new President. Herman Van Rompuy. he is an unelected president of an illegitimate organisation, and he supposedly now rules your life and the lives of 500 million people.
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
AOL are the latest employer to announce the possibility of mass redundancies. They are proposing to cull 2500 jobs through compulsory redundancy if enough volunteers can’t be found. Whe said things are getting better…..
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Came across these gems earlier today ….
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Delroy Grant appears before Greenwich magistrates and is remanded in custody to appear at crown court next week A man accused of a series of sex attacks on elderly women was remanded in custody today to appear in court again this month. Delroy Grant, 52, of Brockley, south-east London, appeared at Greenwich magistrates court and was ordered to appear at Woolwich crown court next Thursday. Grant was...
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
BIS have produced a report on the working patterns of fathers in terms of working hours and use of flexible working. Findings, in a nutshell, reveal that fathers work longer hours compared to non-fathers as fatherhood tends to coincide with the most occupationally active period in their life course. Interestingly, the study found that a [...]
My Metaphysical Trapeze (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In 1989, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) became the first legally binding international convention to affirm human rights for all children. As a binding treaty of international law, it codifies principles that Member States of the United Nations agreed to be universal – for all children, in all countries and cultures, at all times and without exception, simply through the fact...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
British intelligence services won the first round of a legal battle yesterday for the right to rely on secret evidence in their defence.
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Are managers managers whether they are managing selling fruit and veg or managing selling clothes and household bits and pieces? M&S appear to think so - they have just hired the boss of supermarket giant Morrison, Marc Bolland, to take charge as Chief Executive. Stuart Rose, Executive Chairman of M&S, takes the view that it’s management skills that [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
When Dr Christine Gill last month successfully challenged her mother’s will, which had bequeathed the £2 million family farm in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA, it was just the latest in an increasingly long line of disputes over wills to have been picked over by the media.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Labour Government has an impressive record since 1997 of promoting constitutional reform. Yet, as pointed out by Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at the University of Oxford, in his stimulating book The New British Constitution (Hart Publishing, £17.95), the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998, the removal of most of the hereditary peers from the House of Lords, devolution in Scotland...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
How is the legal services market to be reformed? The first detailed insight into what the “big bang” will mean in practice came this week with a major report from the Legal Services Board.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Presiding over the session was John Spencer, the society’s chairman, who intervened, like Springer himself, to make “well-intentioned” contributions that added relish to the debate. Responding, David Southwell, of Zurich insurance, insisted that he had not come to rake up history but then read out a litany of “grotesque abuses” perpetrated by solicitors (mostly, it must...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Paul Michel, of Cloisters Chambers, acted for Sharon Coleman, the carer of her disabled son, in the landmark case in which the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that all carers are now protected by anti-discrimination legislation in the workplace.
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