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We need to talk about the referendum... Scotland's membership of the UK in focus
Referenda are very much in the air at the moment: with Greece's Prime Minister first announcing and - then withdrawing - a proposal for a referendum on continued Greek membership of the eurozone; with British Euro-sceptics pressing for a referendum on...
09 Nov 2011 | 12:09 | 1 comment
How much will the papers pay for a kiss-and-tell? A regulatory and legal conundrum...
Money is at the heart of many invasion of privacy claims, but this an area neglected by press regulation. While Clause 16 of the Editors' Code of Practice prohibits payment to criminals and their associates, it has no provision for other types of stor...
08 Nov 2011 | 13:22
Julian Assange loses High Court appeal against extradition
Human rights barrister Adam Wagner takes a closer look at today's developments in Julian Assange's appeal against extradition...
02 Nov 2011 | 14:54
Female partners still unloved - the tricky relationship between secretaries and women lawyers
There's more unity among professional women, but what about the women who work for them? Here's the startling news: Female secretaries can't stand lawyers who are women. According to a survey of 142 secretaries at big firms...
31 Oct 2011 | 12:24 | 19 comments
The mystery of LawVest - a closer look at DLA's ABS move
"Getting a firm like DLA Piper on board, and particularly Sir Nigel Knowles, is a statement of significant intent" - Neil Rose takes a closer look at the company in which DLA Piper has acquired a minority stake
28 Oct 2011 | 12:32 | 1 comment
Abolishing unfair dismissal will achieve nothing - the leaked Beecroft report
A leaked report for the Government by venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft claims that unfair dismissal law is holding back economic growth. The report says that employers should be given the right to dismiss underperforming employees without explanatio...
26 Oct 2011 | 13:05
A refreshingly grown-up speech on human rights reform
At around the same time that 79 Conservative Party MPs were rebelling over a European referendum, the Conservative Attorney General was giving a very interesting speech entitled 'European Convention on Human Rights - Current Challenge'. In a month ...
25 Oct 2011 | 10:32
The Kilroy scale: train-based confidentiality breaches, ranked by seriousness
Tom Kilroy blogged recently about how lawyers working on the train may be committing serious breaches of confidentiality. For the his pains, he has been called, on the RollonFriday discussion board and elsewhere, "a prig", "an utter nob", "a pompous a...
24 Oct 2011 | 10:24 | 5 comments
Role models and hypocrites - Max Mosley on tabloids, privacy and the law
The tabloids advance two main arguments for invading privacy to reveal someone's sex life. The first is that their victim is a role model who must be exposed if he has not behaved impeccably. The second is that it's their job to expose hypocrites who ...
21 Oct 2011 | 16:02 | 1 comment
Will QualitySolicitors' private equity deal silence the critics?
You've got to hand it to Craig Holt - he keeps pulling rabbits out of his hat. To what will no doubt be the chagrin of its many critics, QualitySolicitors (QS) has surely announced itself on the big stage by securing investment from a private equity f...
20 Oct 2011 | 14:03 | 1 comment
Carter-Ruck's take on the Trafigura story: who guards the Guardian?
In the last three years The Guardian has published over 200 articles relating to Trafigura, the vast majority of which have referred to the 'super-injunction' which the company obtained against the newspaper and to Carter-Ruck's apparent attempts to g...
17 Oct 2011 | 17:16 | 1 comment
It's criminal on the 07:43 from Woking - why client work should always be strictly confidential
This morning, just by coincidence, two people I follow on Twitter had very similar experiences while commuting on the train. Both saw a fellow passenger working on a laptop. We'll omit the names to protect the guilty, but the laptop-jockeys were lawye...
14 Oct 2011 | 10:11 | 2 comments
Hasta la vista baby – will technology lead to the termination of the legal profession?
Later this week I’m running a session for a group of leading technology lawyers which will explore the future of the profession. Withington & Co's new M&A lawyer was a force to be reckoned with Why I think this will be particularly interesting t...
13 Oct 2011 | 16:11
The UK Supreme Court and its President: some interesting issues for the future
On Monday 10 October, The Guardian published an article by Joshua Rozenberg - Nine men, a Lady and the Master. The article asked who would replace Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers as President of the Supreme Court. Lord Phillips had not publicly annou...
12 Oct 2011 | 13:04 | 1 comment
EU law 2, FA Premier League 0 - final score in football broadcasting case?
Last week the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave its preliminary ruling in two joined cases, FA Premier League v QC Leisure and others and Murphy v Media Protection Services (click here for the judgment). The case is rightly ...
10 Oct 2011 | 17:12 | 1 comment
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