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It Is Far Harder To Stay Clean In A Dirty World Than
It Is To Get Dirty In A Clean One.
By
Dr. Hamilton Wallis, Chairman, Fields Associates
The
recent spate of prosecutions for possession of child
pornography proves the maxim once again. Nowhere, it
seems, are otherwise law-abiding citizens more likely
to commit serious offences than from behind the flickering
monitors of their home computers. 
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Trends In Digital Evidence Handling
By Philip
Bowles, Senior Forensic Analyst, Datasec Ltd
John Cooper, Barrister 25 Bedford Row
A white paper
has recently been published regarding the evidential value
of email. The events that led up to the publication arose
from the case of R v Rowe and Bhatt (Canterbury Crown
Court Feb 2003) in which it was alleged that a number
of emails and other computer documents relied upon by
the prosecution had in fact been forged. |
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Matthias Kelly QC Warns Of The Threat To Independent
Publicly Funded Advocacy Services From Current Government
Policy
“Everybody
knows that lawyers are all parasites. Lawyers made the
law complicated to line their own pockets. Lawyers do
not contribute to justice, they frustrate it. Lawyers
simply spin cases out for their own ends. All lawyers
are grossly over-paid fat cats. There is no need for
lawyers to exist at all. The best thing is to just get
rid of them”. |
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How Are The Courts Influencing Mediation In The UK?
By Michael
Lind, operations director, ADR Group
What message
does this send out? The message is clear. The Government,
Judiciary and Court Service fully embrace the concept
of mediation and are integrating it into the litigation
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Pensions-
The Saga Continues
By Richard
Cobbold, Buzzacott Financial Services
Ltd
On the 10th December 2003, the Treasury published its
second consultation document, summarising its proposals
for simplifying pension rules and regulations. There follows
a summary of the main points, together with some brief
comments giving Buzzacott Financial Services Ltd’s
reaction to the document. |
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“Barristers’ Chambers and change”
By Anil Shah (Managing Director
- LPA Legal Recruitment)
Barristers
with a good reputation and with some portable business
can now choose a set, which they consider, would provide
them with the best platform for their areas of work. |
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Chambers - More Than Another Drinks Party.
By Stephen Bedford, Managing Director
of the specialist law consultancy firm Conical
Many Chambers
do not formally gather information on client needs, few
research or ask structured questions about how services
could be improved and on-going satisfaction feedback is
rarely requested. Only when a complaint is received or
a client lost is there any real attention paid to these
issues. This is worrying since Barristers are operating
in an increasingly commercial environment. |
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| Human
Rights At The Heart Of Europe
By Roger Smith, director of JUSTICE,
discusses the importance of human rights within the
European Union.
The British
may be about as sceptical about Europe as they were about
human rights. However, we are slowly advancing a human
rights culture. Our membership of Europe - tendentious
and contentious as it is - should assist in this process. |
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| The
Shadow of Costs
By Kay
Linell, Morley and Scott
I was talking to a friend of mine who is an eminent
Canadian lawyer and arbitrator about his views of litigation
in the United Kingdom and unsurprisingly he was very
critical that we did not have a combined profession
in the United Kingdom, where both solicitors and barristers
undertook the same functions from the same offices. |
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| Witness
Coaching In Criminal Cases
By Linda Dobbs QC, Chair of the
Professional Standards Committee of the Bar Council
and Chair of the CBA and David Etherington QC Chair
of the Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee
of the Bar Council.
Since
"witness coaching" is not an offence in its
own right, we must look to the individual participants
to ascertain the consequences of engaging in this activity. |
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