Archive

20 Nov 2009

Sealing the deal

Law firms tempted to merge their way to success need to be fully prepared for the challenging path ahead.

19 Nov 2009

Passengers to be compensated for delayed flights

Airline passengers whose flights were delayed by more than 20 hours have won their claim to the same compensation as those whose flights have been cancelled.

18 Nov 2009

Law centres and non-lawyer LDPs to be given a year to prepare for ABS status

Law centres, Citizens Advice Bureaux, advice agencies and trades unions should be given a year's “grace” to prepare for regulation as ABSs, the Legal Services Board has proposed.

18 Nov 2009

Charity Tribunal backs concerned Dartford residents

The Charity Tribunal has upheld in part the appeal by two Dartford residents who objected to the sale of land by an unregistered charity run by the local council.

18 Nov 2009

Employers are liable for “stigma loss”, Court of Appeal rules

The Court of Appeal has ruled that employers in discrimination cases are liable for the “stigma loss” suffered by dismissed employees who fail to find work because of the decision to sue their previous employer.

17 Nov 2009

SRA rewrites guidance on referrals

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has rewritten its guidance on referral fees to clarify solicitors' duties to their clients and the requirement of independence, ahead of a thorough review of the rules by the Legal Services Board next year, Solicitors Journal can reveal.

17 Nov 2009

Sole practitioner becomes Tory EU spokesman

Sajjad Karim, Conservative MEP for the North West and sole practitioner based in Manchester, has become the party's legal affairs spokesman in Europe.

17 Nov 2009

The Planning Act 2008

The shape of things to come: the Planning Act 2008 seeks to streamline and fine tune the planning application process, but whether it will strike the correct balance of expediting major infrastructure projects while addressing the concerns of third parties remains to be seen, say Giles Ferin and Marco Mauro