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A helping handout - suggestions for law students trying to make ends meet
By Charlotte Edmond | May 18, 2011
With university fees set to rise to £9,000 next year, anything that lessens the financial burden for law students is a welcome relief. Charlotte Edmond looks at the options
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A helping handout - suggestions for law students trying to make ends meet
By Charlotte Edmond | May 18, 2011
With university fees set to rise to £9,000 next year, anything that lessens the financial burden for law students is a welcome relief. Charlotte Edmond looks at the options
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For the record - the rise of injunctions
By Legal Week | May 18, 2011
In Legal Week's recent interview with Keith Schilling in the article Private Versus Public Keith has, I'm afraid, got away with a couple of distortions about privacy actions. He comments: "Parliament has legislated in favour of privacy" and that as regards injunctions it is "not secret justice between the claimant and the court". He says that "the media are also involved; generally it is tripartite, which is the whole point of an injunction, as the media need to know the terms of the injunction to be bound by it".
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All being equal - the impact of the Government's equality agenda on employment law
By Legal Week | May 18, 2011
In December 2010, the Government published its equality strategy – Building a fairer Britain – which is founded on the principles of equal treatment and equal opportunity. Interestingly, the strategy envisages tackling all inequalities including those not currently protected by legislation, eg, class inequalities. To achieve this, the strategy recognises the need to move from legislation-based solutions and the strand-based approach, focusing instead on the individual.
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A striking case for reform - pressure mounts for industrial relations reform as unions flex muscles
By Legal Week | May 18, 2011
Although fewer days are lost to strikes now than a decade or two ago, a number of recent high-profile public and private sector industrial disputes have placed the issue firmly back on the public stage. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) also threw down the gauntlet at its last conference, when it pledged to: "...support and co-ordinate campaigning and joint industrial action, nationally and locally, in opposition to attacks on jobs, pensions, pay or public services".
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Privacy hysteria misses real issues
By Legal Week | May 11, 2011
Media outrage over superinjunctions obscures justified concerns about rise of judicially-enforced privacy, argues RPC's Keith Mathieson
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A 'laughing stock' libel law no more? The Defamation Bill
By Alex Novarese | May 11, 2011
On 15 March the Government made good on a manifesto commitment of both coalition parties to act on libel reform, unveiling a draft Defamation Bill for consultation until 10 June.
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A bitter bill to swallow - Carter-Ruck tackles the Defamation Bill
By Legal Week | May 11, 2011
Campaigners have been pushing for libel reform, but Carter-Ruck's Nigel Tait and Athalie Matthews say the proposed Defamation Bill is overcomplicated and unwieldy
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Private versus public - two senior lawyers discuss the rise of privacy law
By Legal Week | May 11, 2011
Should we be concerned about the recent dramatic rise in the level of privacy actions? JDG Chambers speaks to two senior lawyers on either side of the debate
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The death of libel - is the Defamation Bill the beginning of the end for libel lawyers?
By Alex Novarese | May 11, 2011
Already facing smaller payouts and a drop in claims, libel work has faded from its 1980s glory days. Will reform of defamation and civil costs – and the rise of reputation managers – spell the end for traditional libel lawyers? Alex Novarese reports
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