Privilege victory but lawyers need to be on their guard

A fire drill at Chancery Lane last week left shirt-sleeved Law Society staff hopping from foot to foot on the ice outside. Yet there was a roseate glow emanating from a goodly number, particularly in policy – and it wasn’t the cold. ‘Lawyers 5, accountants 2,’ offered one observer, having just been told of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the scope of legal professional privilege. The Society, of course, intervened in the case and deserves a share of the plaudits.

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Opinion | Law Gazette



Family Law solicitors in Sevenoaks

STRs need handling with care

Firms under pressure from the FSA to report suspicious transactions need to consider the issue of loss liability
The Lawyer – Opinion



Conveyancing Solicitors in Sevenoaks

Will post-Jackson clients need protection from lawyers?

The government is now well on its way towards introducing damages-based agreements, which will be served up to litigants from a new menu of funding options next April.

It issued a draft version of its DBA regulations nearly two months ago, and after inviting comments during a three-week period, is now in the process of ‘revising’ them, and promises to publish the final version ‘shortly’ – the Ministry of Justice could not give me any more detail on the timings.

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Sevenoaks Lawyers

Lawyers in need

Dundas & Wilson has had a torrid few years. What can the new management do to turn the firm around?
The Lawyer – Focus



Lawyers in Sevenoaks

Hillsborough highlights need to make inquiries more effective

by Dr Karl Mackie, chief executive/mediator at the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, London

The shocking revelations of how the investigations were conducted into the Hillsborough disaster – and the delay of 23 years in uncovering the real issues – will only shake an increasingly disturbed faith in the British inquiries system.

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Opinion | Law Gazette



Conveyancing Solicitors in Sevenoaks

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