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Stairway to Mediation – They should mediate!

A legal dispute has begun over the authorship of Led Zeppelin’s most famous song Stairway to Heaven. It is alleged that the opening chords to the song were in fact stolen from a 1967 song Taurus, by the band Spirit. It will be heard by a jury in May, a US judge has...

Law Society pushes for free complaints again

Solicitors should be granted two free hearings annually by the complaints watchdog, the profession’s leaders said last week as they attempted to ease cost burdens of vexatious cases on smaller practices. The Law Society called on the Legal Ombudsman to revert to...

Chance to meet Architect of the new online Court system

OPEN MEETING WITH LORD JUSTICE BRIGGS Lord Justice Briggs is holding an open meeting at the Civil Justice Centre on the 18th April at 4.30 pm. The meeting is for any interested party to attend and discuss the Civil Court Justice Review and Lord Justice Briggs interim...

Time to Mediate Solicitors’ Complaints

  Mediate! ProMediate has been certified by CTSI to deal with complaints about lawyers, so that there is an additional tier of dispute resolution before the Legal Ombudsman is involved. Disputes under £50,000 in value The way the system works is that if the...

Linda Bellingham – they should mediate

It is sad to read the story in the press this week about Linda Bellingham of Oxo ad fame and her children in dispute with their step father over her will, which was executed during her illness. It is often the case that families fall out over a will, particularly when...