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Clients From Hell on 2009-11-26
New Year prediction | clivejames.com on 2009-11-26
9 - 12 Bell Yard on 2009-11-26
27b/6 - Go Away on 2009-11-26
Cybersex in Swindon? Count me out | David Mitchell | Comment is free | The Observer on 2009-11-26
- "This is the stuff we've been trying to get round to!" he's pleading. "We just got distracted with all the banning fox-hunting, starting wars and buying banks. And by a wasp."
FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments on 2009-11-25
AskOxford: Compact Oxford English Dictionary on 2009-11-24
Reuben Thomas on 2009-11-24
Legal profession set for historic reforms - Times Online on 2009-11-22
- The Board, chaired by Baroness Ruth Deech, agreed in principle that barristers
  could be permitted to join in partnerships with solicitors and others
  without having to qualify first as solicitors, under the regulation of the
  Solicitors Regulation Authority.
- The Board, which regulates the barristers' profession, also agreed that
  barristers should be allowed to practise in more than one capacity at the
  same time - for instance as a part-time employee or consultant to a mixed
  practice of legal professonals while being in self-employed practice.
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- - "'It’s about how to maintain certain aspects of the bar – its independence,
    the way individuals can appear against each other, the cab rank rule, which
    means there is always a barrister ready to promote an unpopular cause – the
    availability of justice. Access to justice is one of the regulatory
    objectives."
  - The profession, she added, had "an independent and collegiate spirit, which it
    was important to hold on to" but she said: "We understand that the time has
    come to allow the bar to operate in different ways to suit the public. It’s
    good for the public and for the rule of law."
  - Self-employed barristesr will also be allowed to investigate and collect
    evidence and witness statements and advice suspects and interviewees at
    police stations, although if either of these is done, they then cannot take
    a brief to conduct the case in court for the defendant.
Jack Straw pledges action to end libel tourism - Times Online on 2009-11-22
- “The very high levels of remuneration for defamation lawyers in Britain seem
  to be incentivising libel tourism,” he said.