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Lawyers Endorse Woolf Reforms As A Positive Change And In-House Welcome Judicial Powers To Introduce ADR
The MORI CEDR Civil Justice Audit is an independent assessment of attitudes and perceptions by experienced legal practitioners - both in-house and external - focusing on the effects the new Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) have had on the cost and speed of the settlement of cases. In particular, the survey focuses on how the use of mediation fits into their overall practice.
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Mediation Set To Increase As Disputes Damage Business
One in four serious business disputes has a significant impact on the parties' business and many businesses are likely to increase their use of mediation.
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New Findings Highlight Link Between School Exclusion And Offending
The link between patterns of truancy and school exclusion and offending by young people is thrown into sharp relief by two surveys carried out by MORI on behalf of the Youth Justice Board.
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The Financial Services Consumer Panel Today Launched Its First Annual Report
"This looks at how the fledgling Financial Services Authority has been performing while it is taking over as the main regulator of financial services in the UK," said Barbara Saunders, Chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel.
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Reporting the Polls - a Lot of Hot Ayr
"POLL SHOCK: VOTERS TO GIVE DEWAR A BLOODY NOSE. LABOUR FACE AYR CRASH - EXCLUSIVE BY RON MACKENNA" screams the front page of yesterday's Daily Record, Scotland's highest circulation daily newspaper. It certainly shocked me - but it was the accuracy of the reporting, not the data in the poll (a constituency poll by Scottish Opinion Limited ahead of next week's Ayr by-election) that was disturbing.
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Labour and the 'Gender Gap'
The Labour Party (or, to be precise, the Labour Representation Committee as it then was) was founded a hundred years ago this week. The driving force behind the LRC's foundation was the trade union movement, with the intention of getting working men into Parliament, and thereby better to represent working class voters.
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Labour's Nightmayor
In ten weeks' time, in theory, Londoners should be voting for their first directly-elected mayor. Even that is uncertain: because the House of Lords has blocked the passage of the regulations that will govern the contest, there is even the possibility that it may have to be postponed altogether. If so, it would be a final indignity in keeping with the shambles which has pervaded all aspects of the proceedings up to now.