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• 8 UK law schools to lose spots on recognised list - TODAYonline

  24-02-2015 21:40
  
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  8 UK law schools to lose spots on recognised list
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  SINGAPORE — Following warnings of a looming glut of lawyers here because of a surge in the number of Singaporeans heading overseas to read law, nearly half of the 19 United Kingdom law schools recognised for admission to the Singapore Bar will be ...
  
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• Silicon Valley executive brings $16m sex discrimination lawsuit to court

  24-02-2015 21:03
  
  Ellen Pao claims Kleiner Perkins excluded her from meetings in first high-profile case of its kind not to have been settled out of court before trialLongstanding allegations that women are routinely discriminated against in Silicon Valley were being aired in open court on Tuesday when a former venture capital executive began $16m sexual discrimination lawsuit against top tech investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
  Ellen Pao, 45, who worked for Kleiner Perkins between 2005 and 2012, cla
  
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• Jeremy McMullen obituary

  24-02-2015 19:04
  
  Judge, former trade unionist and expert on employment law who set up a charity to help female students become barristersJeremy McMullen, who has died aged 66, was the leading expert of his generation on employment law, which he elevated to a new status as one of the permanent judges of the employment appeals tribunal (EAT) and as the founding chairman in 1994 of the Employment Law Bar Association. He used every opportunity to encourage and train others in the practice of employment law in pursui
  
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• Oscar Pistorius's lawyers return to court next month to fight appeal

  24-02-2015 19:00
  
  On 13 March, the disgraced Bladerunner’s lawyers will cast doubt on judge’s permission for an appeal that could upgrade his sentence to murder
  Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius will return to court next month to challenge prosecutors’ argument that he should be convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum 15 years in jail. The disgraced Paralympian is currently serving a five-year jail sentence for shooting dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but could be moved to house arrest in August.
  
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• ‘Named and shamed’ minimum wage offender hits back

  24-02-2015 18:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  South-coast firm maintains it was acting legitimately over apprentice’s pay.
  
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• Summit: arbitration threat ‘illusory’

  24-02-2015 17:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Magic circle partner decries ‘cultish’ attitudes to arbitration.
  
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• Bristol activist jailed for two years for targeting police cars with tyre spikes

  24-02-2015 16:41
  
  Conviction of environmental activist Emma Sheppard marks first success of Avon and Somerset police over anarchist campaign against ‘establishment’ targets An environmental activist has been jailed for two years for putting the lives of police officers in danger by targeting patrol cars with a home-made tyre-deflation spikes to “give them a taste of their own medicine”.Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by p
  
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• Twenty years ago, rogue trader Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank

  24-02-2015 16:30
  
  Twenty years ago, Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Barings, the City’s oldest merchant bank and banker to the Queen
  Nick Leeson on banking: extremely competitive … and improperly policed In his autobiography Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson said the ethos at Barings was simple: ‘We were all driven to make profits, profits, and more profits ... I was the rising star.’Leeson did make Barings vast sums. In 1993, he made £10m - 10% of the bank’s profits for that year. But in 1995, the d
  
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• Legendary Scottish solicitor dies

  24-02-2015 16:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Criminal defence lawyer Joe Beltrami, who became a household name in Scotland, has died aged 83. 
  
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• Keen to leave your rich husband? Come to London, divorce capital of the world

  24-02-2015 16:20
  
  English law is particularly ‘fair for the financially weaker spouse’. That’s why wealthy people’s partners are keen to have their day in court in London rather than anywhere elsePauline Chai wants to get divorced in England. Her husband, the businessman Khoo Kay Pen, wants to get divorced in Malaysia. This is their first battle before they even start dividing their estimated £440m fortune. “If you’re the person with the money then most people will move heaven and earth to avoid
  
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• Claimant who missed hearing escapes sanctions

  24-02-2015 16:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Mr Justice Sweeney said case management decisions are ‘not lightly to be interfered with’.
  
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• List of UK law schools recognised for admission to Singapore Bar narrows - Channel News Asia

  24-02-2015 15:17
  
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  List of UK law schools recognised for admission to Singapore Bar narrows
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  Eight schools were dropped from an initial list of 19 schools in UK Overseas Scheduled Universities recognised for purposes of admission to the Singapore Bar. PHOTOS. (Photo: Ministry of Law website). Enlarge; Caption. SINGAPORE: The list of ...
  8 UK law schools removed from list of approved universities for admission to S ...TODAYonline
  Law Ministry accepts revised list of universities
  
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• List of UK universities recognised for admission to Singapore Bar narrows - Channel News Asia

  24-02-2015 14:09
  
  Channel News Asia
  List of UK universities recognised for admission to Singapore Bar narrows
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  Eight schools were dropped from an initial list of 19 schools in UK Overseas Scheduled Universities recognised for purposes of admission to the Singapore Bar. PHOTOS. (Photo: Ministry of Law website). Enlarge; Caption. SINGAPORE: The list of ...
  
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• Summit: football’s chaotic finances under scrutiny

  24-02-2015 14:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  PFA boss Gordon Taylor tells lawyers at GLS: ‘I recognise rather too many of your faces.’
  
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• Summit: Midmarket firms told to cede power to non-lawyers

  24-02-2015 13:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firms in the ‘squeezed middle’ must deploy wider expertise to boost profits, conference told.
  
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• A judge telling a divorcee to get a job is a triumph for women’s rights | Viv Groskop

  24-02-2015 13:26
  
  Tracey Wright’s case is the kind that forces you to work out what type of feminist you areThe wording of the judgment is brutal. An appeal court judge has effectively told the ex-wife of a wealthy veterinary surgeon to “get a job, love” (my abbreviation). It is imperative, said the judge, “that the wife go out to work and support herself”. Tracey Wright, a 51-year-old former legal secretary, riding instructor and mother of two, has lost her appeal against a family court ruling to reduc
  
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• Slater and Gordon: no offer yet put to Quindell

  24-02-2015 12:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Australian firm responds after UK company announces exclusivity extension.
  
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• Public has no faith in press regulator, says children’s privacy campaigner

  24-02-2015 12:46
  
  Hannah Weller, who won a legal battle with Mail Online, tells MPs that new watchdog acts the same as discredited body it replacedChildren’s privacy campaigner Hannah Weller has said the public has no faith in the new press regulator, which she said acted in just the same way as the discredited regime it replaced.Weller and her husband, musician Paul Weller, won a high court battle with Mail Online over its publication of seven unpixellated photographs of their children last year. Related: Paul
  
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• Pareto Law Set up New Office in New York - Yahoo Finance UK

  24-02-2015 11:56
  
  Pareto Law Set up New Office in New York
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  Pareto Law, the UK's largest sales development company, have recently announced the opening of a new office in America, as they seek to penetrate the US market. Pareto Law's (http://www.paretolawnews.co.uk/) 20th anniversary year as the UK leader in ...
  
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• Summit: I'm proud of you, Grayling tells sector

  24-02-2015 10:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord chancellor promises to do everything he can to help legal sector to thrive.
  
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• New UK law could see bankers prosecuted for aiding tax evasion - Irish Times

  24-02-2015 02:16
  
  Irish Times
  New UK law could see bankers prosecuted for aiding tax evasion
  Irish Times
  The British government is close to a deal with the French authorities that will allow it to use previously leaked Swiss bank files to prosecute bankers and financial advisers, according to British chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne. Tens of ...
  
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• Judge tells ex-wife of millionaire horse surgeon: 'go out to work'

  24-02-2015 01:28
  
  Appeal by Tracey Wright against decision by family court to slash her future maintenance from former husband rejectedAn appeal court judge has told the ex-wife of a millionaire horse surgeon to seek employment, warning that she has no right to expect “an income for life” at her former husband’s expense.In a decision that may have wider ramifications for the ex-partners of wealthy spouses, Lord Justice Pitchford said divorcees with children aged over seven should work for a living. Continue
  
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• Labour publishes proposals for victims' law

  24-02-2015 01:01
  
  Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse among 14 recommendations for improving way victims of crime are dealt with by criminal justice systemCrimes will be reportable at places other than police stations and judges empowered to prevent vulnerable witnesses enduring excessive cross-examination, under Labour proposals for a victims’ law published on Tuesday.There will be mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse and police officers will have to record all allegations of crimes, it also r
  
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