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グローバル経済圏企業
日経ヴェリタスを読んでいたら、コイル大手のスミダコーポレーションが年内にもオランダに金融持ち株会社を設立する、との記事が載っていました。現在、日本と香港で行なっているグループ企業の...
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シモンズ・アンド・シモンズ
TMIと提携関係にあるシモンズ・アンド・シモンズのパートナー2名がLovellsに移籍することは以前書いたことがありますが、そのうちの1人の外国法事務弁護士である別府理佳子弁護士の移籍が遅れて...
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Sullivan & CromwellのゲイのアソシエートがClifford Chanceに
Sullivan & Cromwellでアソシエイトとして働いていたゲイの弁護士が自分の勤めていたSullivan & Cromwellを性差別を理由に訴訟提起していましたが、当該弁護士がClifford Chanceのニューヨーク...
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Lovellsシンガポール・オフィスとMitsubishi
Lovellsがホワイト・アンド・ケースのエネルギー・チーム3名をシンガポール・オフィスにヘッドハントしたそうです。ヘッドハントされたパートナーはMitsubisiをもクライアントとしており、最近...
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Legal Services Act and merger
2011年には、英国で法律事務所のOwnershipとOperational controlを弁護士以外が取得することができるようになります。また、プライベート・エクイティー・ファンドなど、外部からの資金の受入が...
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ロンドンCityでのUS法律事務所の業容拡大
アメリカの法律事務所は世界経済の減速状況にもかかわらず、ロンドン・オフィスの業容を拡大する計画を押し進めるそうです。英国Cityの英国系トップ・フォーは昨年それぞれ£1 billionを稼ぎ出...
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Legal Process Outsourcing
Offshore Sourcing India Executive Study Tour トーマス・フリードマンの「フラット化する世界」や榊原英資の著書でインドのBusiness Process Outsourcing ("BPO")が盛んに紹介されています...
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Profits per equity partner (PEP)
外国の法律事務所では各事務所の財務状況を公表しています。サブプライムローン問題を契機をした経済的な混乱から中小の事務所ではFeeの急激な減少となるところもあります。しかし、2007年前半...
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UK Report (3 July 2008)
日本の話ではありませんが、マジックサークルのひとつであるリンクレーターズがクライアントから$53millionの損害賠償請求をされたとのことで、裁判で争う構えのようです。有利な和解の機会を...
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UK Report (19 June 2008)
(1) Law lords reject plans to protect witnesses from gang retaliation Despite the government’s plan to tackle Britain’s gang culture by granting anonymity to threatened witnes...
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UK Report (18 June 2008)
(1) Court frees Abu Qatada, a terror suspect on electronic tag A British court’s decision to release Abu Qatada, the radical Muslim cleric, albeit under some of the most string...
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UK Report (17 June 2008)
(1) Reform on youth justice system The government is planning to reform the youth justice system and introduce a more welfare-oriented, early-intervention approach to dealing wi...
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SimmonsからLovellsへ
Simmons & Simmonsは六本木ヒルズにあるTMIと提携関係にあるイギリス系の法律事務所ですが、14年間Simmons & Simmonsの東京オフィスで働いていたコーポレートのパートナーとオフィス・チーフがL...
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UK Report (27 May 2008)
(1) Youth crime –how to solve increasing knife crime Stabbing especially amongst teenagers is becoming a routine occurrence in London and other cities. As this is caused by a c...
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UK Report (23 May 2008)
(1) Blackmail judges in sex video case go unpunished Two judges under investigation after a blackmail attempt by their illegally employed cleaner have been found guilty of “poo...
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UK Report (22 May2008)
(1) Solicitors’ pay gap The Law Society survey found that there is a huge pay gap in the earnings of men and women lawyers. Furthermore, white solicitors earn £10,000 more on ...
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UK Report (21 May 2008)
(1) The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill In a landmark decision last night, MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a fath...
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UK Report (20 May 2008)
(1) DPP is to step down Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, who is credited widely with having turned the CPS round, is stepping down in October from his £185,000-a-year job as Director of ...
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UK Report (19 May 2008)
(1) Compromise to save key parts of embryo Bill MPs will vote on a series of amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill tomorrow. The majority of those affected b...
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UK Report (16 May 2008)
(1) Youth Justice Board fails to halt increase in reoffending According to figures published yesterday, the Youth Justice Board failed to meet any of their targets to cut reoffe...
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UK Report (14 May 2008)
(1) Met extends powers to stop and search youths under the 1994 Public Order Act After a spate of fatalities in the capital, Scotland Yard announced a crackdown on knife and gun...
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UK Report (13 May 2008)
(1) Is Soca just too soft? Despite being hailed as Britain’s answer to the FBI when it was launched in 2006, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) failed to build up a reli...
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UK Report (12 May 2008)
(1) Amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill The House of Commons will vote next week on several amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, whic...
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UK Report (8 May 2008)
(1) Home secretary wants antisocial youth to be openly filmed and hounded at home As part of a government strategy to win back voters by proposing more radical approaches to tac...
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UK Report (9 May 2008)
(1) Demise of Asbos The issuance of Asbos, the Tony Blair’s flagship measure against antisocial behaviour, has dropped by 34% and its breach rates has soared to 61% among teena...
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UK Report (6 May 2008)
(1) Negative impact of low legal aid pay – criminals getting off the hook The impact of new legal aid fees was strongly felt when a convicted drugs offender had escaped a confi...
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UK Report (2 May 2008)
(1) Conviction overturned as fresh doubts emerged over the reliability of medical evidence After serving three years behind bars, a babysitter sentenced to life for the murder o...
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UK Report (29 April 2008)
(1) Criminal justice watchdogs condemn sloppy justice system Four criminal justice watchdogs castigated the criminal justice system’s sloppy approach which contributed to the f...
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UK Report (23 April 2008)
(1) DPP thinks extending detention period to 42 days is unnecessary The Director of Public Prosecutions renewed his opposition to the government’s proposal to detain terror sus...
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UK Report (22 April 2008)
(1) Judges set to deliver fresh blow on terror If the government loses the High Court battle this week over the Government’s powers to freeze bank accounts, stop benefit paymen...
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UK Report (21 April 2008)
(1) Lawyers fight plans for case-worker trials The Bar Council, which represents barristers, and the Law Society, which represents solicitors, are both opposing to measures that...
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UK Report (18 April 2008)
(1) New SFO chief shift focus to help victims Upon taking his office, the new SFO chief said that the SFO should put more energy into helping consumer fraud victims. He said som...
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UK Report (16 April 2008)
(1) Scale of online distribution of child porn The Internet Watch Foundation, a watchdog funded by the internet industry, carried out a study and published an annual report reve...
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UK Report (14 April 2008)
(1) Domestic violence victims are failed by new law, says judges The changes in the law to curb domestic violence, which now makes a breach of a non-molestation order a criminal...
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UK Report (9 April 2008)
(1) Migrants who came under old rule win right to stay The High Court judge ruled that the government’s retrospective imposition of tough new regulations to migrants who came t...
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UK Report (8 April 2008)
(1) CPS – determined to do more themselves The director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has embarked on a programme that allows more CPS advocates to take their own criminal cases...
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UK Report (7 April 2008)
(1) Prosecuting lawyers could sit in judgment In a move to make the judiciary more diverse, the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions are both strongly in fav...
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UK Report (4 April 2008)
(1) Pay dispute – barristers’ stand-off A pay dispute between the Legal Services Commission and the bar Council may have increased the risk of inexperienced barristers handlin...
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UK Report (3 April 2008)
(1) Lord Chief Justice criticises ‘politicised’ prison policy During the annual press conference at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, the Lord Chief Justice expressed con...
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UK Report (2 April 2008)
(1) President of supreme court will be Phillips It was announced that the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, will be the first president of the UK’s supreme ...
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UK Report (1 April 2008)
(1) Not enough judges as terror trials loom Due to a series of delays in appointing new judges after an independent judicial appointments system was set up, the court system is ...
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UK Report (31 March 2008)
(1) Launch of postal penalty notices The introduction of postal penalty notices will start today so as to allow parking wardens to issue tickets which they had not finished writ...
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UK Report (26 March 2008)
(1) Police chief condemns judges on gun crime (2) Family calls for help to find teacher’s killer in Japan The family of a British teacher murdered in Tokyo a year ago have a...
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25 March 2008
(1) Police chief condemns judges on gun crime Police are calling for very heavy sentences to be handed down for gun crime offences and criticizing judges for failing to ensure t...
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20 March 2008
(1) New EU strategy to tackle cross-border traffic offences The new cross-border strategy was announced by the European Commission yesterday to make it much easier to trace fore...
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UK Report (19 March 2008)
(1) High profile couple’s divorce judgment made public The decision to publish the judgment on the financial battle between Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney is welcomed by ...
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UK Report (11 March 2008)
(1) Too many serious criminal cases thrown out after prosecutors were not ready The inspectors of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) disclosed in a report that too many numbers...
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UK Report (10 March 2008)
(1) TV cameras to be kept out of court Despite being planned by the former Lord Chancellor to broadcast parts of court cases on TV, the incumbent Jack Straw decided to kill off ...
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UK Report (7 March 2008)
(1) Proposals to give legal rights to cohabiting couples are shelved Plans to give cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples have been shelved by ministers, despite ...
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UK Report (6March 2008)
(1) Justice Secretary calls for change in the legal profession Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, said that senior ranks of legal profession were still domin...
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UK Report (3 March 2008)
(1) Struggle to control extremist inmates According to internal Ministry of Justice documents, the growing number of terrorist prisoners is forging connections with the existing...
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UK Report (26 February 2008)
(1) Jail play dropped A production of Sweeney Todd in Kingston Jail has been abandoned after a member of Pimlico Opera, the visiting production company, was found to be in posse...
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UK Report (25 February 2008)
(1) Call for stricter bail after revelation that 1 in 7 charged with murder go free In response to a freedom of information request, the ministry of justice has admitted that ne...
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UK Report (22 February 2008)
(1) Justice secretary urges courts to send fewer to jail As the prison population in England and Wales soared to an all-time high, the justice secretary made an urgent appeal to...
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UK Report (21 February 2008)
(1) New sentencing guidelines The Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) has issued new guidance for various crimes, whereby tougher sentences were laid out for various assaults in...
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UK Report (20 February 2008)
(1) CPS blunder criticised for endangering British public The disc containing DNA details of 4,000 offenders on the run from the Netherlands, which was sent to Britain to be che...
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UK Report (19 February 2008)
(1) Paralegals to take CPS cases to trial Due to government cost-cutting, plans are to go ahead for thousands of trials a year to be prosecuted by non-lawyers, even though paral...
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UK Report (18 February 2008)
(1) Prison gang wars force fearful inmates to plead for segregation Gang wars have become so acute in some of the maximum security prisons that fearful inmates plead for segrega...
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UK Report (15 February 2008)
(1) Miscarriage of justice The Algerian man wrongly accused of training pilots involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks was completely exonerated of any part in the attacks on the...
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UK Report (14 February 2008)
(1) Terror law rethink as extremists go free Senior judges quashed the convictions of five young Muslims for downloading extremist propaganda, arguing that its possession was no...
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UK Report (13 February 2008)
(1) Attempt to hold a big criminal trial without a jury rejected Prosecution lawyers’ attempt to hold a big criminal trial without a jury was rejected by a judge. Prosecutors a...
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UK Report (11 February 2008)
(1) Drug trial may be held without a jury for the first time Prosecutors plan to apply to hold a major criminal trial without a jury for the first time because of concerns that ...
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UK Report (7 February 2008)
(1) Brown backs court use of intercepts while intelligence services demand veto on use of some bugging evidence Under the proposals backed by Gordon Brown, intercept evidence wi...
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UK Report (5 February 2008)
(1) Inquiry into MPs bugging allegations A former detective revealed that he was pressured into bugging a conversation between a Muslim Labour MP and a terrorism suspect held in...
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UK Report (4 February 2008)
(1) Inquiry into MP being bugged when visiting jail It is alleged that the Metropolitan police bugged a Muslim Labour MP as he spoke to a terror suspect in jail. If this was tru...
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UK Report (1 February 2008)
(1) Debate on constitution The Government has a delicate task of carrying out a constitutional reform whereby establishing the balance between the rights to which we are all ent...
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UK Report (29 January 2008)
(1) Intercept watchdog sides with security services to reject phone-tap evidence The Conservatives and other civil rights groups are pressing for intercept evidence to be used i...
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UK Report (23 January 2008)
(1) Police call for domestic abuse register The police are pressing for a domestic violence register, similar to the sex offenders’ list, to enable them to track serial offende...
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UK Report (22 January 2008)
(1) Government to review Bill that could block stem-cell experiments Tough new consent laws that would block cloning experiments involving embryonic stem cells are to be reviewe...
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UK Report (21 January 2008)
(1) Barristers boycott new legal aid contracts Many barristers are boycotting new legal aid contracts mainly because the rates are significantly lower than their current pay. On...
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UK Report (18 January 2008)
(1) Courtroom battle over banks’ overdraft charge started Banks have spent millions of pounds hiring the City’s leading QCs and barristers to fight the Office of Fair Trading...
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UK Report (17 January 2008)
(1) Donor rates can be improved without a change in the law In order to improve donor rates, a task force was set up by the Government to consider how to, without changing the l...
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UK Report (16 January 2008)
(1) Secrecy ordered for parts of murder trial An Old Bailey judge ruled that the trial of a man accused of murdering a prizewinning author would go ahead with parts of the proce...
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UK Report (15 January 2008)
(1) Foreigners’ ID cards to be phased in Identity cards for foreign nationals are to be phased in over three years. A small scale pilot scheme, which is expected to involve 10,...
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UK Report (14 January 2008)
(1) Newspapers to challenge move to hear trial in secret Seven leading newspapers will lodge a challenge today to an unprecedented move by the Home Secretary to have the trial o...
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UK Report (11 January 2008)
(1) Figures to prove adverse effect of downgrading Cannabis Figures have shown that the number of people needing medical treatment as a result of cannabis use has risen by rough...
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UK Report (10 January 2008)
(1) Soaring cost of a prison building programme MPs are accusing Jack Straw for providing misleading information regarding the cost of building new prisons. Albeit the original ...
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UK Report (9 January 2008)
(1) Cannabis to be reclassified as Class B drug The government is determined to reverse the decision taken in 2004 to downgrade cannabis. New evidence on the harm to mental heat...
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UK Report (8 January 2008)
(1) Move to ban industrial action in the prison service In order to avoid a repeat of a wildcat strike by prison officers last August which caused chaos in the jail system, the ...
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UK Report (7January 2008)
(1) Legal aid scheme shake up – exodus of expert lawyers Just before the start of the legal aid scheme shakeup, solicitors are deserting legal aid work particularly in child ca...
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UK Report (18 December 2007)
(1) Urgent reform needed for the system for appointing peers In response to the cash-for-honours affair, a cross party committee has stressed that the system for appointing peer...
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UK Report (17 December 2007)
(1) Jack Straw misled the public about the real cost of building prisons Although the Justice Minister said previously that the £1.2bn would be used to provide an extra 10,500 ...
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UK Report (12 December 2007)
(1) New Bill to ban criminals from sitting in the House of Lords According to the current law, MPs who are convicted of a criminal offence are immediately banned from the Common...
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UK Report (11 December 2007)
(1) The ramifications of the NatWest Three decision Lawyers working for British businesses view that it was inevitable for the NatWest Three to accept a plea-bargain deal since ...
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UK Report (10 December 2007)
(1) Plan to reduce legal fees The new head of the Bar warned that moves to reduce the fess that barristers earn in long, complex cases would discourage best advocates to take on...
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UK Report (5 December 2007)
(1) Jailed killer has right to father a child, European Court rules The European Court ruled yesterday that Britain breached the human rights of a murderer and his wife by refus...
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UK Report (4 December 2007)
(1) UK fighting a losing battle against the EU’s new legislation for temporary workers UK’s frantic behind-the-scenes attempt to block the EU’s proposed new legislation which...
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UK Report (3 December 2007)
(1) Prison – mobile phone used to supply drugs and continue criminal activities According to the report from the prison’s Independent Monitoring Board, the supply of mobile ph...
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UK Report (30 November 2007)
(1) Labour donations scandal A new investigation by the Metropolitan police into the Labour Party donations scandal began following a decision by the Electoral Commission to ref...
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UK Report (29 November 2007)
(1) NatWest Three’s plea-bargain Despite fiercely maintaining their innocence since Sep 2002, three NatWest bankers, who fought extradition from Britain to answer a multimillio...
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UK Report (28 November 2007)
(1) Lawyers launch recruitment drive In order to encourage many from less fortunate backgrounds to consider a career in the law, the Bar Council and a group of big City law firm...
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UK Report (27 November 2007)
(1) English test for barristers urged A Bar Council report said that too many students of poor quality were being admitted to the Bar Vocational Course at the expense of more ab...
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UK Report (26 November 2007)
(1) Juries to be warned of rape victim ‘myth’ In order to boost the conviction rate in rape trials, ministers will outline plans such as issuance of “myth-busting” packs to ...
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UK Report (20 November 2007)
(1) Concern over the shake-up in appointing judges In response to criticisms from the public that the method of appointing judges lacks transparency, from last year the Judicial...
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UK Report (16 November 2007)
(1) Immigration and migration figures According to the official figures published yesterday, the number of Britons migrated abroad rose to a record 207,000 last year, but more t...
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UK Report (15 November 2007)
(1) Slow pace of law reform criticised A High Court judge and a chairman of the Law Commission criticised the slow pace of law reform, pointing a finger at civil servants for re...
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UK Report (14 November 2007)
(1) Immigration Media sensitive Home Office, who was anxious to avoid further damaging publicity, is accused of covering up the fact that more than 9,000 illegal immigrants coul...
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UK Report (13 November 2007)
(1) Police – points-for-justice system criticised It has been revealed that for the last 5 years police has been focused on increasing the number of “offences brought to justi...