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CEDR Solve set for Saturday service

The dispute resolution and prevention arm of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) is set to open for business on Saturdays, the mediation body announced today (7 March). CEDR Solve has launched a new Saturday service to accommodate what it says is a growing demand for out-of-hours availability from its clients. The service will be initially piloted with a number of voluntary mediators before being rolled out across the whole of the organisation.
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Applications dip puts pressure on QC funding model

The newly-reformed QC regime's self-financing funding model is coming under pressure, it has emerged, following a shortfall in projected applications. The head of the QC appointments secretariat, David Watts, has conceded that the 39% rise in the cost of applying for silk, which this year saw application fees rise from £1,800 to £2,500, was in part a response to a shortfall in applications.
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Bar Council unveils package of measures to help the less privileged access the Bar

The Bar Council has introduced new measures to improve access to the Bar as it prepares to announce the initial findings of its review of diversity in the profession. Bar Council chairman Geoffrey Vos QC unveiled a number of initiatives to widen access to the Bar in a speech to think tank Social Mobility Foundation this week (26 February).
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Seven Bedford Row picks up new chief exec

Seven Bedford Row has hired Orange Broadband managing director Stephen Allen as its new chief executive. Allen joined the common law set on 12 January. The set has been looking to fill the position since former CEO Robert Graham-Campbell left last September to join Maitland Chambers.
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Commercial Bar: Making the silk cut

"Don't worry George, most people get turned down on their first application. You're bound to get it next year." That was the friendly advice offered to my father in 1970 by Dick Taverne QC MP, his old Balliol chum and a close government colleague of the then Labour Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner. As a nine-year-old, I vividly remember the April morning the following year when George Carman first called himself QC - it was the happiest day of his life.
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Commercial Bar: Silver is the new gold

"Commercial barristers are struggling," said an article ('The Bar Barometer') in the pages of Legal Week in December 2006, offering analysis of the future prospects for leading chambers and supported by tales of woe from several leading commercial sets.
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Commercial Bar: Join the parties

The amendment to Civil Procedure Rule (CPR) 5.4, now in force, has reversed the default position that statements of case (except the claim form) in civil litigation would only be released to the public from the court file if the court gave permission. Now the position is that all statements of case are available simply at the request of any non-party unless the court orders otherwise.
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International Edition

Commercial Bar: Split personality

As regulators begin to flex their competition law muscles, an issue that is now arising in the courts - and particularly the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) - is the extent to which the regulator can or should wear its 'regulator' and 'competition authority' hats at the same time.
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Commercial Bar: Uncertain ground

In Svenska v the Government of Lithuania and others the Court of Appeal dismissed the Government of Lithuania's appeal from the decision of Justice Gloster, holding that it was subject to the jurisdiction of the court in proceedings to enforce an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration award against it.
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Commercial Bar: No 'I' in team

The line between the work of barristers and solicitors is becoming increasingly blurred as both professions undergo simultaneous transformations. For those practising independently at the Bar, these changes undoubtedly affect working styles, as well as the nature of their relationship with solicitors.
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