
Michael Cross
News Editor at The Law Society Gazette
Correspondent and Editor at UKAuthority
Journalist in Muswell Hill, London (and Broadstairs). News editor Law Society Gazette; free data fan. Views personal, retweet not an endorsement, obviously.
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5 days ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Michael Cross
The government has promised greater assistance and expertise to strengthen Ukraine’s justice system under an agreement signed by justice minister Sarah Sackman and her Ukrainian counterpart in Kyiv this week. The memorandum of cooperation will build on the strong judicial co-operation that exists between the two countries – including the development of training programmes to help bolster the role of an independent, transparent and effective judiciary, the Ministry of Justice said.
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5 days ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Michael Cross
Garfield Law, a pioneering firm providing legal services through AI, has been approved by the SRA. The founders, a City lawyer and a quantum physicist, are targeting LiPs and high street firmsIn his latest speech enthusing about digital justice, the master of the rolls said last month that what might have sounded outlandish even a year ago is now accepted wisdom. ‘People are considering the hows and the whens; no longer the whethers,’ he told the International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution.
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6 days ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Michael Cross
The Law Society’s Gazette of May 1945 ran to just 16 pages - half its prewar size - on poorer grade paper than in 1939. But its austere pages carried some hints that the agony of the past five and a half years was nearing an end.
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1 week ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Michael Cross
The failure to include legal services in the free trade agreement announced between the UK and India is a missed opportunity for both UK and Indian economies, the Law Society warned today. The deal, which follows three years of negotiations, will cut tariffs on goods from whisky to textiles, the government said. However long-standing hopes for the opening of India's legal market to UK-based firms remain unfulfilled.
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1 week ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Michael Cross
During the first Ukraine Law Day, participants discussed how Russia can be made to pay for its war. But fears were also voiced that justice could be traded away as part of any peace dealFlowers and toys mark a Kyiv residential building that was destroyed by a Russian attack on 25 April, killing 12 peopleCould justice be traded off in a Trumpian deal to end the war in Ukraine?
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The Gazette's virtual swear box (£1 for every mention of 'Queen's speech') now contains £3.

A further - unfinished - chapter in the Craig Wright saga. #craigwright https://t.co/1KSHveJYz7

'£2 billion will be invested to update fragmented and outdated IT systems across the NHS.' Welcome to 2003! #groundhogday