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Jean-Yves Gilg

Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Get with the programme

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Get with the programme

Another New Year and another trumpeting to announce the reappearance on our television screens of that well-known, ever popular drama queen: Laura Norder. Yup â€“ she's back; and she is getting more gritty and ugly than she was before. The other night there were numerous trailers for Laura â€“ we've got murdered females (naked), murdered females (clothed), we've gone under her covers, between her covers, found out that she is not all that she seems to be, that she has thrown away the rule book and so on. Laura is going to be very busy in the cold months of winter.

Young offender punishment regime is unlawful

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Young offender punishment regime is unlawful

A punishment regime at a young offender institution, which describes punishments as â€œawardsâ€ and claims to be based on the consent of inmates, is unlawful, the High Court has ruled.

Jackson LJ's call for referral fee ban "misjudged"

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Jackson LJ's call for referral fee ban "misjudged"

One of the UK's leading referral networks has said the proposal in the Jackson review to ban referral fees was "misjduged".

Jackson report: out with CFAs, in with contingency fees

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Jackson report: out with CFAs, in with contingency fees

Lord Justice Jackson's eagerly anticipated report proposes radical changes to civil litigation costs rules, including the limiting of conditional fee agreements and the introduction of contingency fees.

Strasbourg rules stop and search powers unlawful

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Strasbourg rules stop and search powers unlawful

Two protestors stopped and searched by police while on their way to an arms fair have won their case that their privacy rights have been breached.

Gurkhas lose pensions challenge

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Gurkhas lose pensions challenge

The British Gurkha Welfare Society has lost its challenge to the way the Ministry of Defence calculates pension entitlements.

Maximum age for firefighters not discriminatory

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Maximum age for firefighters not discriminatory

Imposing a maximum age requirement for firefighters was designed to ensure operational capacity and was therefore a lawful exemption from the ban on age discrimination, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

Attorney General tackles arrest warrant anger

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Attorney General tackles arrest warrant anger

Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, has attempted to calm the storm provoked by the decision of a district judge in London to issue an arrest warrant against the former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni.

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