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• Take a walk on the mild side … and get fined

  06-06-2015 08:00
  
  You don’t have to go far wrong these days to end up facing a possible penalty. We round up the modern misdemeanours that can leave you out of pocketDropped your kids off late for school? That’s £60 please. Failed to clear up after your dog? Get ready to cough up £100. Splashed a pedestrian while driving? You’re risking a £100 fine.According to law firm Hickman and Rose, ordinary citizens are more vulnerable to being criminalised than at any time in history. Its researcher
  
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• There’s a fine for that: how we face more penalties than ever before

  06-06-2015 08:00
  
  You don’t have to go far wrong these days to end up facing a possible penalty. We round up the modern misdemeanours that can leave you out of pocketDropped your kids off late for school? That’s £60 please. Failed to clear up after your dog? Get ready to cough up £100. Splashed a pedestrian while driving? You’re risking a £100 fine.According to law firm Hickman and Rose, ordinary citizens are more vulnerable to being criminalised than at any time in history. Its researcher
  
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• Why I couldn’t tell our daughter about our separation

  06-06-2015 07:00
  
  After Julie Maxwell and her partner split up, a court forbade them to tell their child that she was the subject of an order stipulating how much time she would spend with each parent. For how long could they comply?“What is a barrister?” asked my six-year-old daughter, who had just overheard me use the word on the telephone. I paused, preparing my reply. “Ah yes … barristers are very clever people who are very good at solving problems. They are helping your father and me work out the bes
  
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• Dyson: costs budgeting training needed for legal profession

  06-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Master of the rolls suggests lawyers need educating in case management, as has happened for judges.
  
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