Malcolm Leder, Professor of Consumer Law and head of the School of Law at Middlesex University Business School, has called for a more coherent system of consumer law in the UK. Speaking at his inaugural lecture, he said the law was currently oriented towards commercial rather than consumer transactions. “Repairs, replacements and credit notes are […]
Ravinder Chahal BARBARA Mills QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has moved to reassure critics of the new criminal disclosure rules that they will not lead to miscarriages of justice. Mills last week told a conference organised by the British Academy of Forensic Sciences that the CPS and the police were working together to comply […]
AFTER more than two years in the pipeline the European Commission has adopted a draft directive on the rights of establishment for foreign lawyers. The long-awaited move has been welcomed by lawyers in Europe, who say the topic will now be publicly debated for the first time. The directive was scheduled for discussion by the […]
I would wish 1995 to be the year of full employment for all ILEX members employment prospects, particularly for trainees, have improved but are not yet back to the ‘good old days’. The go-ahead for increased rights of audience for suitably qualified fellows is high on my list of priorities. I would like to point […]
A LAWYER with a small specialist legal advisory firm in Cornwall spotted a gap in the market for intellectual property insurance and is now providing the cover for businesses operating in the US and elsewhere. Ernest Kay, a non-practising barrister, runs Law Business & Technology Services, a firm specialising in international IP advice and based […]
EMPLOYMENT lawyers have responded with astonishment to press coverage of the Government’s climb down over the House of Lords judgement on part-time workers rights, saying reports have “made a mountain out of a molehill”. They claim Employment Secretary Michael Portillo’s acceptance of the ruling was “inevitable” and tribunals had already begun adapting the law to […]
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POLICE powers to stop and search, due to come into force soon, will give officers the right to search all pedestrians and vehicles in a given area in a 24-hour period if there is a suspicion of serious violence at an event due to occur. Barristers at 2 Gray’s Inn Square, in a seminar given […]
Workers suffering from injury or ill-health as a result of their jobs were awarded u335 million in legal damages last year as a result of trade union action. Figures released by the Trades Union Congress show unions are winning record levels of damages – up by 8 per cent on the previous year’s record of […]
SOLICITORS who visit clients in police stations will have to make more trips, stay for longer, and take a “more pro-active role” when sections of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act come into force early this year. And costs to the Legal Aid Board will increase “enormously” as a result, according to Mark Haslam, […]
LAWYERS have until the end of next month to respond to the Lord Chancellor’s package of measures designed to prevent rich people milking the legal aid fund. The Bar Council and the Law Society have broadly welcomed the plans but could object to individual proposals. Society president Charles Elly says that turning legal aid into […]
Three wishes is the classic number. My first for 1995 is that the Lord Chancellor announces that he is now in a position to carry out a review of eligibility levels for legal aid to include raising the threshold at which family credit recipients are required to pay u10 a week towards legal aid and […]