“We have seen Santander having trouble in mortgage possession proceedings in Northern Ireland recently. Here is another example which could perhaps, indeed maybe should, have been avoided, if the lender had actually taken proceedings sufficiently seriously.”
NearlyLegal, 11th October 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“GCHQ is probably intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients, according to a detailed claim filed on behalf of eight Libyans involved in politically sensitive compensation battles with the UK.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Radical reforms to open more diverse routes to becoming a solicitor, including through apprenticeships, are to be published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th October 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A solicitor has been jailed for stealing more than £200,000 from clients including one who had received compensation for brain damage.”
BBC News, 9th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The latest High Court decision refusing relief from sanctions shows how tough the courts are becoming in implementing the Jackson reforms, a QC has warned.”
Litigation Futures, 9th October 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“The High Court has ruled that a third-party litigation funder was entitled to terminate its funding in a case where the prospects of success had fallen below 60%.”
Litigation Futures, 16th September 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular Olympic opening ceremony of human rights news and views.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 8th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A law firm has been closed down after one of the country’s most senior judges asked regulators to investigate its last-minute bids to block the deportation of failed asylum seekers.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Plans to award legal aid contracts to the lowest bidders following criticisms it would reduce justice to a ‘factory mentality’ have been scrapped.”
The Guardian, 5th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal will decide whether Andrew Mitchell MP can reverse a High Court decision that the cost of his libel action against The Sun should be restricted to the cost of the court fees for the claim.”
The Lawyer, 30th August 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The outgoing lord chief justice has called for action to reverse a decline in the number of solicitors applying for judicial posts. In his last annual report, published today, Lord Judge says ‘it is a matter of concern’ that there has been a decrease in the proportion of successful candidates with a professional background of solicitor.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th August 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has taken the highly unusual step of ruling that a judge should have recused himself from hearing a wasted costs order against a party’s solicitors given the comments he made about them in his substantive judgment.”
Litigation Futures, 27th August 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“The judge who had heard a substantive application would almost always be the right judge to deal with consequential issues as to costs, even if he had made findings adverse to a party in the course of reaching his conclusion. However, exceptional circumstances might arise where there was apparent bias stemming from the facts of the case which meant that the judge should have recused himself from dealing with the issue of costs.”
WLR Daily, 14th August 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A solicitor who refused to comply with a legal ombudsman decision to return files to a client has been fined £5,000 for contempt by a county court.”
Solicitors Journal, 14th August 2013
Source: www.solicitorsjournal.com
“One of the country’s most senior judges has asked a legal regulator to consider striking off a law firm over its last-minute bids to block the deportation of failed asylum seekers.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The incoming Lord Chief Justice has asked the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to consider a law firm’s continuing fitness to practise having found its senior partner in contempt of court.”
Legal Futures, 9th August 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“The long running case of Padden v Bevan Ashford [2013] EWCA Civ 824 has reached its dénouement. It is a case not without its human interest, and legally it illustrates important points of practice and principle which arise when a solicitor is instructed to give independent advice on what may well be an improvident transaction, as well, perhaps, on the vagaries of some county court judges. It has involved two county court trials, including a retrial after one county court judge decided that the defendants had no case to answer, and that to ‘foist’ a duty to give ‘full’ advice on a solicitor who simply agreed to see someone who had come in off the street was ‘an absurdity’. To the concern of many solicitors, but quite correctly, both the subsequent judge upon a re-trial the Court of Appeal (twice) decided that the case was anything but absurd. In the end, the solicitors were liable.”
Sovereign Chambers, 30th July 2013
Source: www.sovereignchambers.co.uk
“The Divisional Court gave guidance on the practice to be followed on an application for a search warrant under the special procedure in section 9 of and Schedule 1 to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, and reiterated the information required to be supplied by a constable to the court on such an application, including the need to give full and frank disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 23rd July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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