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• Insurers open fraud data to claimant solicitors

  27-04-2015 17:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Details of long-awaited scheme for sharing information on claimants’ history finally revealed.
  
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• Insurers open data to claimant solicitors in fraud crackdown

  27-04-2015 17:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Details of long-awaited scheme for sharing information on claimants’ history finally revealed.
  
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• Sudan's Omar al-Bashir extends 26-year presidency with 94.5% of the vote

  27-04-2015 14:53
  
  Opposition parties refused to take part in the controversial ballot denouncing it a ‘political charade’Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir was re-elected on Monday with 94.5% of a vote boycotted by major opposition parties and denounced by western governments as lacking credibility.“The number of votes obtained by candidate Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir of the National Congress Party was 5,252,478, or 94.5%” of ballots cast, the head of the election commission Mokhtar al-Asam declared in th
  
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• Sudan's Omar al-Bashir extends 26-year presidency in predictable ballot

  27-04-2015 14:53
  
  Opposition parties refused to take part in the controversial ballot denouncing it a ‘political charade’Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir was re-elected on Monday with 94.5% of a vote boycotted by major opposition parties and denounced by western governments as lacking credibility.“The number of votes obtained by candidate Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir of the National Congress Party was 5,252,478, or 94.5%” of ballots cast, the head of the election commission Mokhtar al-Asam declared in th
  
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• Single-person bar entities face insurance struggle

  27-04-2015 14:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Only eight out of 26 commercial insurers the Bar Standards Board approached said they would be willing to insure BSB-regulated entities.
  
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• Leading rights activist arrested in Burundi: lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  27-04-2015 14:07
  
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  Police in Burundi on Monday arrested leading human rights activist Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa, his lawyer said, after violent protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in power. An arrest warrant has also been issued for Vital ...en meer »
  
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• High court ruling paves way for courts to decide whether bridge is a sport

  27-04-2015 13:56
  
  English Bridge Union seeks to overturn Sport England’s refusal to recognise the card game as a legitimate sport Bridge, the genteel and physically unchallenging card game played by millions, may exercise the brain muscle, but is it a sport?Continue reading...
  
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• Costs judge warns on budgeting delays

  27-04-2015 13:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Ask the court to waive costs budgeting if it causes injustice,' Master David Cook tells personal injury lawyers. 
  
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• Redundancies confirmed at top international firm

  27-04-2015 13:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Commercial firm has concluded a restructure of its partnership and secretarial services.
  
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• Redundancies confirmed at international firm

  27-04-2015 13:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ince & Co revamps the partnership and secretarial services.
  
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• Same-sex marriage: US supreme court has few choices but to 'end the debate'

  27-04-2015 12:52
  
  Historic arguments will force justices to signal support for nationwide constitutional right, legal experts say, as continuing support of marriage bans would be ‘reckless and irresponsible’The highest court in the United States on Tuesday will hear arguments in one of the last major undecided civil rights struggles in American history – whether same-sex marriage is a constitutional right – but this particular landmark case for equality may already be open and shut.The US supreme court ha
  
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• Solicitors concerned over judge replacement pilot

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Civil Procedure Rules were updated earlier this year to allow for judges to be removed from tasks, such as amending particulars of claim, after a vote by the Civil Procedure Rule Committee.
  
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• Solicitor concerns over judge replacement pilot

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Civil Procedure Rules were updated earlier this year to allow for judges to be removed from tasks, such as amending particulars of claim, after a vote by the Civil Procedure Rule Committee.
  
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• SDT: Nasir Ilyas

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Mohammed Imran

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for two years to commence on 28 January 2015.
  
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• SDT: Melanie Claire Cosgrove and Carol Ann Swankie

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT noted that it would appear both respondents were receiving the same sanction and wished to make it clear that the first respondent’s misconduct was greater than that of the second respondent.
  
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• SDT: Basharat Ali Ditta

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Number of practitioners rising fast

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  One in three of all solicitors are based in London and one in five work for a City firm.
  
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• No ‘magic bullet’ in consultation

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  If a public authority embarks on a consultation it must do so properly.
  
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• News focus: statistics of a changing profession

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society publishes latest annual statistics report providing a comprehensive snapshot of solicitors in 2014.
  
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• Mersey advice beat

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Liverpool Law Society is to help local authorities and academics draw up guides to accessible legal advice in Merseyside, after hosting a summit to find solutions to the ‘devastating’ impact of spending cuts on access to justice.
  
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• Lambeth plots joint ABS

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London Borough of Lambeth’s in-house legal department is hoping to set up alternative business structure with neighbouring borough Southwark.
  
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• Justice report proposes new model for disputes

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Report responds to major cuts to legal aid and cuts to the HM Courts & Tribunals Service budget, which have left individuals unable to enforce their rights.
  
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• Human rights essay prize winner

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fourth-year law student Ian McDonald was named winner of this year’s Law Society human rights essay competition at the annual Graham Turnbull Lecture.
  
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• Firms warned of pension deficit

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A pension scheme trust fund relied upon by a number of law firms to provide pensions for their staff has told members they may be liable for any shortfall in future.
  
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• DWF merges with niche practice

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  National firm DWF is to absorb niche insurance practice Watmores.
  
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• Councils ‘need to be clear’ on ABS plans

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Councils ‘need to be clear’ what they want to use alternative business structures for, as the move involves ‘quite a lot of work’.
  
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• Confusion reigns over new social care laws

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Care Act 2014 ‘likely to result in uncertainty. Having a new set of rules means that certain issues will be litigated about how those rules apply’.
  
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• Challenge for funds on climate

  27-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Initiative to challenge pension funds to fulfil their legal duties to protect investments from financial risks posed by climate change.
  
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