Sentences with phrase «cases as solicitor»

I expect my organization to expose me to diverse and critical cases as solicitor where I can unwind my intrigue potential to handle a legal cause.

He has a high track record of success in representing clients both in the UK and abroad and conducts cases as a solicitor before various Tribunals, Local Authorities, County Courts, and at the Royal Courts of Justice.

Not exact matches

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

The government's austerity cuts have had a huge impact on the number of solicitors taking on legal aid cases, as Chana's experience testifies to.

«All our intelligence shows that courts continue to sit as usual and that the vast majority of cases requiring a solicitor at the police station have been picked up within an hour.»

Barbara Underwood, 73, the state solicitor general and the woman who will temporarily replace Schneiderman as attorney general, is a highly experienced professional lawyer who has argued 20 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

«Our attention as solicitors to Mr. David Adeleke aka Davido, has been drawn to statements and comments both on the social, electronic and print media including but not limited to a very recent publication by national daily, wherein various statements credited to the Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, insinuating inter alia that our client has a case to answer in the unfortunate demise of one Mr. Tagbo Umeike.

If you wish to defend a case, you would usually need help from a legal aid solicitor or an advice agency such as a citizens advice bureau or law centre.

However Low also recalled talking to a firm of solicitors who told told him that as a result of the LASPO cuts they would be able to handle 300 fewer cases a year.

Since MacDonald Estate, there has been deep consideration of solicitor - client privilege and litigation privilege in the Supreme Court of Canada as can be seen from the following lengthy (and incomplete) case list:

The court is also hearing a case involving solicitor - client privilege in Quebec, as well as a curious tax case where the authority increased its own assessment after a taxpayer appeal.

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear five appeals including a number of significant cases that will determine the rights of the Crown to «take up» Aboriginal lands under treaty; the right of public - sector workers in Saskatchewan to strike; and the extent of solicitor - client privilege as it pertains to money laundering laws.

After an extensive selection process, a range of in - depth demonstrations and a number of meetings, Legend Solicitors saw Eclipse's Proclaim Case Management system as the best on the market.

Should you feel that you wish take the matter further as you are unhappy with the way your employer or another solicitor is handling your case, don't hesitate to contact us as we can often work on a «no win no fee» basis.

Down on her luck, depressed, angry, but adamant that she had a good case (as it was clear to everyone other than the appointed trade union solicitors), she issued her unfair dismissal claim herself (she didn't do a very good job of issuing the employment claim, but at least it was lodged in time).

As such, any promises that a firm of solicitors may make about concluding your case quickly — before they even have knowledge of your unique circumstances — should be taken with a healthy pinch of salt!

As the instructing solicitor in one of the leading quantum cases Whiten v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust [2011] EWHC (QB) I have a detailed understanding of the difficult issues involved in quantifying large awards and structuring settlements.

Our personal injury solicitors are accustomed to dealing with holiday injury cases and will strive to ensure you receive the maximum amount of compensation as soon as possible, while keeping the process stress - free for you, so that you can focus on your recovery.

What is important is that you are assured your solicitor will be pursue your case as vigorously as possible for you, whilst ensuring that the work is done to a very high standard.

At page 78 he refers to the Law Society submission and states «The report does not however give, in our view, adequate attention to the way in which the market is manipulated by BTE insurers so that clients are not free to choose the solicitor of their own choice... The Association of District Judges has made known to the Law Society, during 2008, its concerns that this system frequently operates as a denial of justice to claimants who lose, undersettle or not pursue cases as a result of the nature of representation provided.».

As such in every case your solicitor should seek to secure from the defendant insurer an early full admission of fault, and if the defendant is seeking to make an allegation of contributory negligence then get them to make it early so that your solicitor can properly gather the evidence to resist the same.

Technology confounds solicitor profession chiefs as confidential elements of Blacker case are easily accessed

Our history as a Harrogate solicitors is of handling complex cases with an excellent success rate and ensuring our clients get the outcome they both want and deserve.

Private funding where you pay your solicitor as the case progresses irrespective of the case outcome remains available but is not usually attractive because there can be more beneficial methods of funding the claim;

Like any personal injury claim, it is important to provide as much detail as possible so that your solicitor can build a strong case on your behalf.

I qualified as a solicitor in September 2013 after having spent two years dealing with various types of personal injury claims, including catastrophic brain injury cases, various types of industrial accidents and clinical negligence work.

We realise that as a claimant you have choice as to which firm you instruct, sometimes however it is the case that your union or insurer will pass you to a firm of recommended solicitors.

Your solicitor will assess the value of your case once the medical report is available, perhaps with Counsel, and with your approval make an offer to the Defendant to settle the claim (this is known as a «part 36 offer» after the section of the CPR that deals with this procedure).

[27] Some authority supports the proposition that where the privilege claimed is not solicitor - client privilege but rather litigation privilege, as in this case, the premium placed on protecting the information is lower and the description must be more detailed to facilitate challenge.

As a next stage the user may, if he / she chooses, request a telephone call with a solicitor — in that case, the call is charged at a fixed price of # 35 and is unlimited in time.

The Court of Appeal stated that while an appropriate case may give rise to important issues such as privacy, solicitor - client privilege, expense, and time, this was not that case as Mr. Justice Myers» order was of narrow scope.

Measures proposed for public law cases may involve children's solicitors taking on case management tasks which have hitherto been regarded as functions of Cafcass.

They may well have a great case in law, solid prospects of success, but if the likely damages awarded do not cover the ATE premium and solicitors uplift, then once again the case will be rejected as financially unviable.

The case turned, as in the authoritative Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG [1999] 2 AC 222, [1999] 1 All ER 517, on the solicitor's unqualified «duty to preserve confidentiality» (per Lord Millet, quoted by Bodey J at para 22).

In RP a mother, who had been represented throughout care and placement order proceedings by the official solicitor, appealed against the making of the placement order on the ground, among others, that she had not had a fair trial as the case advanced on her behalf did not accord with her instructions.

The court should be slow to entertain an application for judicial review as an alternative to an appeal by way of case stated just because the time limit for an appeal has been missed, even if the fault lies with the claimant's solicitors rather than with the claimant personally.

If the case is successful under a CFA the solicitor is paid their costs plus a success fee which will be a fixed percentage uplift, whereas under a DBA, also known as a contingency fee agreement, the solicitor receives their costs plus a percentage of the compensation awarded.

A case such as this is difficult for a judge, because it requires active case management and no assistance is being provided by counsel / solicitors, who are under an ethical and professional obligation to the court to assist it and to point out (gently) if the court is overlooking something.

Find extra information about various law firms, as well as case studies and interviews with current solicitors and trainees.

The barristers at Essex Court Chambers, as individual lawyers, may only act on a specific matter or case if instructed to do so by one of the following: a solicitor, a qualified foreign lawyer, or an authorised licensed access client who has been approved under the Bar Standards Board's Licensed Access Recognition Regulations.

Tom's recent Commercial Court experience includes acting in the high - profile eight week trial in (1) JP Morgan Chase Bank plc (2) JP Morgan Securities Ltd v. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts v. Clifford Chance Partnerschaftsgesellschaft von Rechtsanwälten, Wirtschaftsprüfern, Steuerberatern und Solicitors, which was selected as one of The Lawyer's top 20 cases of 2014; and acting in Ng Su Ling v. (1) Goldman Sachs International (2) Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pt, which has been selected as one of The Lawyer's top 20 cases of 2015.

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

When defence secretary Michael Fallon complained in the Commons of lawyers making a «shameful attempt to use our legal system to attack and falsely impugn our Armed Forces», a columnist on the Law Society's Gazette went so far as to compare it to the shocking case of the murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

In the recent Shiner case the Disciplinary Tribunal adopted and applied a statement of the Lord Chief Justice in 2014 that misleading the court must be regarded by any disciplinary tribunal as one of the most serious offences a solicitor could commit.

«After I graduated, I practised as a solicitor for eight years and it was only when I began working closely with barristers on cases that I discovered the majority of them weren't throwbacks to the 17th century locked away in ivory towers, but were actually friendly and relatively normal.

Apply this in the case of solicitors dealing with catastrophic brain injury claims as an example.

Instructed solicitor in the ECHR case on the definition of social security benefits as possessions under article 1 Protocol.

Very few solicitors will offer «No Win, No Fee» agreements in cases they think they are not going to win, as they are unlikely to get paid!

Whether it's lazy solicitors buying - in claims from ropey claims management companies, or some large «factory - style» law firms heaping a staggering numbers of cases onto their unqualified staff — it all boils down to the same thing: personal injury claims being treated as meaningless numbers.

Although your solicitor will usually ask the GP this whilst preparing your case, if there is some sort of co-working or personal relationship, make sure you let your solicitor know as soon as possible.