Memory lane

Law Society’s Gazette, May 1962

Judicial selection in America

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Conveyancing Solicitors in Sevenoaks

Memory lane

Law Society’s Gazette, 8 March 1972

TV Campaign for Legal Aid

There are still too many people with legal problems who are unaware, not only of their rights, but also the benefits to which they may be entitled under the Legal Aid and Advice Scheme. And so, for the first time since the scheme began in October 1950, television is to be used to advertise it in the north-east.

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Divorce Solicitors Sevenoaks

Memory lane

Law Society’s Gazette, 8 March 2007

Sharp gender gap as partnerships shrink

Male solicitors are still more than twice as likely to be partners as their female counterparts, it emerged this week. The Law Society’s annual statistical report found that 40% of male solicitors are partners, compared to just 18% of women. Law Society President Fiona Woolf said: ‘There has been a steady improvement over recent years in women’s representation at more senior levels of the profession, but we recognise that more needs to be done.’

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Solicitors Sevenoaks

Memory lane

Law Society’s Gazette, 3 February 1982

Food and drink in Anglo-American law

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Solicitors Sevenoaks

Memory lane

Law Society’s Gazette, 8 January 1992

Dead cat

Sir James Comyn, one of the kindest and fairest of all recent High Court judges, has put together many of the happenings of his life in anecdotal form (in a book entitled Summing It Up).

This book is a feast of legal stories, all true, some remarkably funny. He tells the story of appearing before Judge Clothier QC at Lambeth County Court, when he appeared for landlords seeking to evict a middle-aged lady from her flat on the grounds that she was guilty of ‘nuisance and annoyance’.

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Solicitors Sevenoaks

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