The price of justice
Contrary to the understanding of the unnamed barrister you quote, the going rate for three-year-qualified legal aid solicitors is £30-35,000 (Lawyers threaten strike...
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Wrong type of weather trips up Met Office
Staff at the Met Office face a gloomy financial outlook after failing to meet government targets for accurately predicting the weather. The wrong type of weather in Febru...
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Credit keeps the business lights blazing
Debt is part of the fabric of modern life in the UK, for individuals and businesses alike. But while being in the red has largely negative connotations in the realm of pe...
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Great food, shame about the cash flow
What exactly is the point of a Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Nightmare where the restaurateur does not get flayed alive? When Ramsay came to Brighton to visit Momma Cherri's Soul...
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UK growth slows down
The economy grew at its weakest rate in nearly two years in the first quarter, official figures showed today, striking a blow to Gordon Brown's forecasts.
The Office for...
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Kennedy says Lib Dems will keep local income tax policy
The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, today pledged his party would stick to its plan to replace the council tax with a local income tax, saying the policy had "t...
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Bank hints at cheaper borrowing costs
The Bank of England dropped the first hint last night that interest rates could be on the way down as the west's leading economic thinktank warned that waning consumer sp...
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US investors seek a hedge against hedge funds
In some quarters it is being called 'the catastrophe that never happened'. Not yet, anyway.
For 10 days, Wall Street anxiety about a collapse in the over-inflated hedge ...
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What do no votes mean for the union?
It was business as usual for the European Central Bank yesterday. Just as it has at every meeting for the past 24 months, it left interest rates on hold. The no votes in ...
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Alien nation
The French debate on the European Union constitution, or to be more accurate the arguments put forward by the mainstream left against that much-maligned treaty, is slowly...
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