6. Legal services and the ethical lawyer

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-198
Author(s):  
Scott Slorach ◽  
Judith Embley ◽  
Peter Goodchild ◽  
Catherine Shephard
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines the development of the legal profession in the UK. It discusses lawyers as professionals; the importance of legal services and their regulation; the legal profession in England & Wales; the role of ethics in lawyers’ work and the changing face of the legal profession within society.

6. Legal services

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Slorach ◽  
Judith Embley ◽  
Peter Goodchild ◽  
Catherine Shephard
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines the development of the legal profession in the UK. It discusses lawyers as professionals; the importance of legal services and their regulation; the legal profession in England and Wales; the role of ethics in lawyers’ work and the changing face of the legal profession within society.

scholarly journals Is there a “compensation culture” in contemporary Russia? The role of liability insurance, non-pecuniary damages, and legal profession in personal injury litigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Bocharov
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Liability Insurance ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Personal Injury Litigation ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Uk

This article explores current trends in personal injury litigation in Russia compared with the common law countries (the UK and US). In contrast to the British and American situation, there is no concern about the problem of “compensation culture” or “litigious behaviour” in Russian public discourse. The number of personal injury cases considered by Russian courts is not particularly high despite the growing number of accidents. This state of affairs can be explained by the influence of the Soviet culture of tort law. The most visible areas of the Soviet impact addressed in the article are liability insurance, non-pecuniary damages, and the legal profession. The article demonstrates the specificity of the Russian approach to these issues. The research is based on the analysis of judicial decisions on personal injury cases, court statistics, and expert interviews with personal injury lawyers. The findings are discussed from a historical and comparative perspective.

Managing Copyright Information

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rollins
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Copyright Information ◽  
The Uk

AbstractA new Law Licence was agreed between the legal profession and the CLA in late 2008 and Paul Rollins of the The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, describes its main features and the role of the CLA in enforcing copyright law in the UK.

The re-landscaping of the legal profession: Large law firms and professional re-regulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Flood
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Market ◽  
The Uk ◽  
City Of London ◽  
Global Law ◽  
The City ◽  
The Eu

The size and scope of global law firms has made them difficult to encompass within a single regulatory jurisdiction. As the UK government sought to take control of the legal profession and market by removing self-regulation and introducing external regulation under the Legal Services Act, the large law firms were able to countermand the new regime. Through a combination of associations like CityUK, the City of London Law Society, as well as through individual firms, large law firms lobbied successfully to reinstate a new form of self-regulation known as AIR. The elites of the legal profession constructed a new logic of professionalism that accorded with the firms’ ideologies and government’s market-oriented objectives. Further attempts to consolidate their position at the EU and at the GATS levels are still in negotiation. Despite the legal market shifting to a more diffuse combination of actors, of which lawyers are only a segment, elite law firms have apparently strengthened their hold.

scholarly journals The value of mediator soft skills to modern commercial practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 781-788
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Commercial Practice ◽  
Resolution Process ◽  
Evaluative Process

This paper explores the nature of change in modern economies due to their growing interconnectedness and implications this has for the way professions such as mediation and legal services carry out their business. It argues that the biggest upheaval has been the rise in the commercial value of trust over that of competitive and adversarial behaviours and that this requires, in turn, that dealing with conflict takes account of the inherent human complexity found in trusting relationships. It contrasts the role of mediators in dealing with complexity and ambiguity with that of other professions, notably in the legal sphere. It notes attempts within the legal profession to rebadge itself away from litigation to dispute resolution and to promote evaluative mediation and semi-determinative processes as the pre-eminent conflict resolution process. It argues that the traditional non-evaluative ‘process’ approach to mediation is far more in tune with the modern collaborative economy and concludes that the legal profession should seek to learn from it and seek to adopt the soft skills of the mediator.

Management of deradicalisation in the UK: reflections of a clinical psychologist

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feryad A. Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Psychosocial Issues ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
Clinical Counselling ◽  
The Uk

Radicalisation to violent action is not just a problem in foreign lands. Research has identified numerous politico–psychosocial factors to explain why young people from the UK are now joining terrorist groups such as ISIS. Our understanding has been expanded by the accounts of “returnees” who have subsequently either self-deradicalised or joined a government deradicalisation programme in the role of an Intervention Provider (IP). These individuals are now key to the deradicalisation programme. This article presents the reflections of a clinical psychologist who worked within a social healthcare team managing psychosocial issues related to radicalisation, in conjunction with an allocated IP. The project involved individuals from the Muslim community and, as such, issues discussed are specific to this group. It is acknowledged that the process in general is universally applicable to all groups though specifics may vary (under Trust agreement, details may not be discussed). This article also aims to share basic information on the current Home Office deradicalisation programme and raises questions about the current intervention. It also offers reflections on how the work of IPs may be facilitated and supported by clinical/counselling psychologists and psychotherapists.

Monitoring the marine environment for small round structured viruses (SRSVS): a new approach to combating the transmission of these viruses by molluscan shellfish

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Henshilwood ◽  
J. Green ◽  
D. N. Lees
Keyword(s):  
Enteric Virus ◽  
Winter Period ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
Cloning And Sequencing ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Human Enteric Virus ◽  
Different Strains ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Public Health Protection

This study investigates human enteric virus contamination of a shellfish harvesting area. Samples were analysed over a 14-month period for Small Round Structured Viruses (SRSVs) using a previously developed nested RT-PCR. A clear seasonal difference was observed with the largest numbers of positive samples obtained during the winter period (October to March). This data concurs with the known winter association of gastroenteric illness due to oyster consumption in the UK and also with the majority of the outbreaks associated with shellfish harvested from this area during the study period. RT-PCR positive amplicons were further characterised by cloning and sequencing. Sequence analysis of the positive samples identified eleven SRSV strains, of both Genogroup I and Genogroup II, occurring throughout the study period. Many shellfish samples contained a mixture of strains with a few samples containing up to three different strains with both Genogroups represented. The observed common occurrence of strain mixtures may have implications for the role of shellfish as a vector for dissemination of SRSV strains. These results show that nested RT-PCR can identify SRSV contamination in shellfish harvesting areas. Virus monitoring of shellfish harvesting areas by specialist laboratories using RT-PCR is a possible approach to combating the transmission of SRSVs by molluscan shellfish and could potentially offer significantly enhanced levels of public health protection.

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