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The case against barristers and solicitors merging
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17 12 2008
With legal-aid fees plummeting, the Crown Prosecution Service and defence solicitors are using more and more employed "in-house" advocates instead of independent barristers. Judges are refusing to allocate serious cases to Queens Counsel. And the morale of the independent criminal Bar is at an...
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Family courts: what changed on the long walk to freedom
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17 12 2008
Some years ago when he was Home Secretary, Jack Straw wanted to visit a Youth Court in the South of England. It was to prove a salutary lesson in the extent to which the family courts are closed even to a government minister .
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Family courts: case studies
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17 12 2008
The opening up of the family courts will be welcome news for one couple whose case - currently before the Court of Appeal - has been highlighted by The Times after their baby daughter was placed into foster care earlier this year.
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Time running out for one family caught by the family courts
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17 12 2008
They put the Christmas decorations up a couple of days ago but no one in the Smith family feels much like celebrating. Despite the tinsel draped over their sons" photographs, there are no excited children racing around the flat. Instead, Patrick, 6, and Donald, 2, will be spending the holiday i...
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Will the new Coroners Bill resurrect the controversial secret inquests?
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17 12 2008
Urgent reform has long been acknowledged by a government that has itself commissioned a raft of reports on the coroners" system.
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We erode the coroner"s ancient powers at our peril
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17 12 2008
Governments of all stripes eventually come to resent the separation of powers, none more so than our present one, which has suffered several spectacular humiliations at the hands of the judiciary. But while lawyers (and we former lawyers) may cheer and congratulate ourselves on being guardians...
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French watchdog fines steel cartel EUR575m
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17 12 2008
French competition authorities fined 11 steel trading companies, including three subsidiaries of ArcelorMittal, a record EUR575 million (£518 million) yesterday for running a cartel that carved up the sector between its members over long lunches.
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PartyGaming co-founder Anurag Dikshit faces prison term
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17 12 2008
The founder of PartyGaming, owner of the PartyPoker.com website, yesterday pleaded guilty to offering illegal gambling services in the United States and agreed to pay $300 million ($£192 million). He now faces up to two years in jail.
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Madonna backtracks on "inaccurate and misleading" divorce payout statement
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17 12 2008
Madonna claimed today that a statement issued by her own spokeswoman that she had agreed to pay £60 million to her former husband Guy Ritchie as part of the couple"s divorce was "misleading and inaccurate".
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British opt-out from 48-hour working week defeated in Strasbourg
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17 12 2008
Britain"s opt-out from the EU"s 48-hour working week was soundly defeated in a vote by the European Parliament today, with many Labour MEPs voting against the Government"s attempts to keep the measure first won by John Major in 1993.
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