Cleanup date October 2007 Infobox television show name Is It Legal? image caption The cast of Is It Legal? From left to right Kate Isitt, Matthew Ashforde, Richard Lumsden, Patrick Barlow, Imelda Staunton, and Jeremy Clyde format Comedy runtime 25 minutes creator Simon Nye starring Patrick Barlow br Imelda Staunton br Richard Lumsden br Kate Isitt br Jeremy Clyde br Matthew Ashforde country United Kingdom network ITV Series 1 & 2 br Channel 4 Series 3 first aired start date df yes 1995 9 12 last aired end date df yes 1998 12 9 num episodes 21 list episodes List of Is It Legal? episodes official website http www.hartswoodfilms.co.uk programmes com legal.html Is It Legal? was a United Kingdom British television sitcom set in a solicitors office in Hounslow , west London , which ran from 1995 to 1998 . It was produced by Hartswood Films and was shown on ITV for Series 1 2 and Channel 4 for Series 3. It was written by Simon Nye , who also wrote other ITV sitcoms such as Men Behaving Badly and Hardware TV series Hardware . Cast Richard Lumsden Colin Lotus Jeremy Clyde Dick Spackman Series 1 2 Imelda Staunton Stella Phelps Patrick Barlow Bob Birch Kate Isitt Alison Matthew Ashforde Darren Nicole Arumugam Sarah Chivers Notable Guest Stars John Thomson comedian John Thomson Paramedic in Death In Hounslow Jono Coleman Radio DJ in Hounslow FM Ben Miles Tom in Alison Gets Laid Chris Langham ... her back because of their inept attitude towards law and the legal profession. Bob Birch Bob is the office ... of him. Episodes Main List of Is It Legal? episodes Filming locations Interior shots were filmed at Teddington ... when it was first shown, Is It Legal? has now become an obscure sitcom in that it is not as well .... DVD releases All three series of Is It Legal? have been released by Network DVD Network between ... title 0112019 Is It Legal? BBC Online comedy guide articles i isitlegal 7773830.shtml Is It Legal? http www.hartswoodfilms.co.uk programmes com legal.html Is It Legal? on the Hartswood Films website ... more details
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Unreferenced date November 2006 A legal administrator is a non Lawyer attorney law office employee or law office manager responsible for a law firm s overall day to day operations. Legal administrators are responsible for ensuring the delivery of legal services by supervising staff and identifying and developing business opportunities. Legal administrators also work within law or legal departments and handle many responsibilities other than substantive legal work or assignments of it. DEFAULTSORT Legal Administrator Category Legal professions Law stub ... more details
Legal certainty is a principle of jurisprudence which holds that legal rules must be clear and precise, in order that legal subject s can be sure as to the demands the law makes of them. DEFAULTSORT Legal Certainty Category Legal doctrines and principles law stub ... more details
Multiple issues orphan October 2009 unreferenced October 2009 Legal benefit is a law legal term means the obtaining by the promisor of that which he had no prior legal right to obtain. DEFAULTSORT Legal Benefit Category Law Law term stub ... more details
Legal Advisor may refer to Legal Advisor Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants , the legal adviser to the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants in the United States Legal Adviser of the Department of State , a position in the government of the United States Disambig lt Teis s patar jas ... more details
Globalize date January 2011 Cleanup spam date October 2010 A legal secretary is a particular category of worker within the legal profession. In the practice of law in the United States , a legal secretary is person who works in the legal profession, typically assisting lawyer s. Legal secretaries help by preparing and filing legal document s, such as appeal s or Motion legal motions . It is not unusual for a larger firm to place managerial duties on a particular legal secretary. Much like a paralegal , a legal secretary is responsible for locating relevant information for cases. This type of person would be called a paralegal in the UK. In the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth , a legal secretary is a secretary experienced in working for a law firm or in house General counsel legal department . They assist by giving administrative support to lawyers and are significant members of a team of professionals who work together. The work of a legal secretary varies and can be very interesting. They deal with a wide range of challenging legal and business issues, combining their skills with modern ... state s for legal secretaries. However, unlike an Secretary administrative assistant , a legal secretary must be familiar with legal procedures. Many colleges and universities offer programs geared towards this career, however, there is not a degree associated with that of a legal secretary. Rather, students are enrolled in existing legal courses, which have been established for those who wish to pursue a career in law, such as a lawyer or police officer . In the UK, a legal secretary should have excellent secretarial skills together with a knowledge of law and legal procedures. They must be computer literate and have a good standard of English. People can acquire the legal skills they need .... External links http www.nala.org National Association of Legal Assistants DEFAULTSORT Legal Secretary Category Legal professions ... more details
Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation. ref J. Myron Jacobstein and Roy M. Mersky, Fundamentals of Legal Research, 8th ed. Foundation Press, 2002 p. 1. ref The processes of legal research vary according to the country and the legal system involved. However, legal research generally involves tasks such as 1 finding primary sources of law , or primary authority , in a given jurisdiction Case law cases , statutes , regulations , etc. 2 searching secondary authority for example, law review s, Law dictionary legal dictionaries , legal treatise s, and legal encyclopedias such as American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris Secundum , for background information about a legal topic and 3 searching non legal sources for investigative or supporting information. Legal research is performed by anyone with a need for legal information, including lawyers , law librarians , and paralegals . Sources of legal information range from printed books, to free legal research websites and information portals to fee database vendors such as Wolters Kluwer LexisNexis and Westlaw . Law libraries around the world provide research services to help their patrons find the legal information they need in law school s, law firm s and other research environments. Many law libraries and institutions provide free access to legal information on the web, either individually or via collective action , such as with the Free ... database Legal research in the United States List of sources of law in the United States Law Oxford Law Citator External links dmoz Society Law Reference Legal Research References references DEFAULTSORT Legal Research Category Legal research law stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Wiktionary Legal age can refer to any of a number of ages of legal significance, including age of candidacy age of consent age of criminal responsibility age of majority legal drinking age marriageable age minimum driving age voting age smoking age DEFAULTSORT Legal Age Category Legal terms Law term stub es Mayor a de edad no Aldersgrense th ... more details
A legal procurator is a lawyer in Malta who assists advocate s in lawsuits in courts of various levels. A legal procurator also has rights of audience in lower courts of that country. External link s http mjha.gov.mt justice lpchamber.html Information on Legal Procurators from Malta Ministry for Justice and Home Affairs website DEFAULTSORT Legal Procurator Category Legal professions Category Maltese law law stub Malta stub ... more details
Multiple issues orphan October 2009 unreferenced October 2009 Legal detriment is a law legal term referring to the act of doing that which the promisee was under no prior legal obligation to do or the refraining from doing that which he was previously under no legal obligation to refrain from doing. DEFAULTSORT Legal Detriment Category Law Law term stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Legal periodicals are trade publication s for the Practice of law legal profession targeted at lawyer s, paralegal s, judge s, and government civil servant s. They contain commentary on current and proposed legislation as well as on recent case law court decisions and administrative law administrative rulings . They can also contain scholarly research articles, book reviews, surveys, and industry news. Legal periodicals may be published by law school s and their affiliated law review student organizations , bar association s or commercial publishers. Legal periodicals published by law schools are known as law review s. DEFAULTSORT Legal Periodical Category Legal magazines Category Legal research Category Legal newspapers Trade mag stub Law mag stub ... more details
The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970s by the Scottish American legal scholar Alan Watson W.A.J. Alan Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another A. Watson, Legal Transplants An Approach to Comparative Law , Edinburgh , 1974 . The notion of legal transplantation is diffusionism based and according to this concept most changes in most legal systems occur as the result of borrowing. As maintained by Alan Watson Watson , transplantation is the most fertile source of legal development. Laws are commonly inspired by foreign policies and experiences. Regardless of the academic discourses on whether legal transplants are sustainable as a notion in the law legal theory , they are common practice. Nevertheless, the degree to which new laws are inspired by foreign examples can vary. A frequent and often justified criticism is that imported laws are not suited for a certain local context. German jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny and his German ... the spirit of a people . Savigny s school of legal thought expressed the need of legal change .... However, this concept of juristic evolution did not leave much space for notions such as legal transplants ... of legal transplants. Today, legal transplants are often mentioned in the broader process of diffusion of law or legal acculturation . J.W. Powell is credited with coining the word acculturation , first ... context, such notion is by many contemporary scholars applied to legal thought. The diffusion of law is a process of legal change in today s age of globalization . Studies on diffusion of law are notably ... Bibliography on Legal Transplants and the Diffusion of Law http www.ejcl.org 44 art44 2.html A. Watson, Legal Transplants and European Private Law http www.harvardilj.org attach.php?id 50 D. Westbrook ... 2005 348.pdf P. Shah, Globalisation and the Challenge of Asian Legal Transplants in Europe DEFAULTSORT Legal Transplant Category Legal terms Category Comparative law fi Oikeudellinen siirr nn inen ... more details
marxism Legal naturalism is a term coined by Olufemi Taiwo to describe a current in the social philosophy of Karl Marx which can be interpreted as one of Natural Law . Taiwo considered it the manifestation of Natural Law in a dialectical materialism dialectical materialist context. See also Marxism Legal positivism Natural law Books Legal Naturalism A Marxist Theory of Law Olufemi Taiwo, Cornell University Press, 1996 ISBN 0 8014 2851 3 Articles DEFAULTSORT Legal Naturalism Category Naturalism Category Philosophy of law philosophy stub ... more details
A legal constitution is a constitution where the judiciary form the greatest check upon the use of executive power. A legal constitution can be contrasted with a political constitution where political accountability is the greatest method of controlling government. In a legal constitution methods of judicial review and the striking down of unconstitutional legislation may be used in order to control government power. A move from a political to a legal constitution has been noted in the United Kingdom after the passing of the Human Rights Act . ref http www.learningmatters.co.uk sampleChapters pdfs 1846410274.pdf 10157 02 CH01.QXD Bot generated title ref References references DEFAULTSORT Legal Constitution Category Political terms ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2007 In the common law , legal advice is the giving of a formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law by an officer of the court such as solicitor or barrister , ordinarily in exchange for financial or other tangible compensation. Advice given without remuneration is normally referred to as being pro bono pro bono publico in the public good , or colloquially, pro bono . Legal advice is distinguished from legal information which is the reiteration of legal fact. Legal information can be conveyed by a parking meter, sign or by other forms of notice such as a warning by a police law enforcement officer . Printed legal materials, such as directions and how to manuals, are generally not considered legal advice. Accordingly, directions on how to fill in a motion form and other court documents do not constitute legal advice. Citation needed date June 2008 On the other hand, application of legal rules and principles to a specific set of facts is almost always held to constitute legal advice by the courts. Online Legal Advice With the advent of the internet, many services have been established to provide individuals the power to conduct their own legal research or prepare their own legal documents. In addition, some companies have taken it a step further by offering answers to legal questions directly through their web services. See also Caselex Lawyer DEFAULTSORT Legal Advice Category Civil law Category Practice of law law term stub de Rechtsberatung lt Teisinis konsultavimas ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 This article is about the legal practice for Wikipedia s policy on the matter please see Wikipedia No legal threats A legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party, generally accompanied by a demand that the other party take an action demanded by the first party or refrain from taking or continuing actions objected to by the demanding party. Nature of legal threat Legal threats take many forms. Common to all is that the party making the threat will take some form of action of a legal nature. Most common is the threatened initiation of a commercial lawsuit against the second party. Other threats might include an administrative law action or complaint, referring the other party to a regulatory body, turning the party into the legal authorities over a crime or civil infraction, or the like. Legal threats are often veiled or indirect, e.g. a threat that a party shall be forced to consider its legal options or will refer the matter to legal counsel. Types of legal threat Cease and desist main Cease and desist A cease and desist C&D letter is a formalized legal demand that a party stop cease and refrain desist from an activity ... or explicit threat that the demanding party will take some form of legal action Effect of legal threat For the most part a legal threat is of no legal significance other than a matter of negotiation tactics however, in certain instances a legal threat does have some legal significance. Among other things a legal threat may do the following Establish notice the party receiving the threat .... In addition to their legal significance, legal threats may create a number of practical results Intimidating a party into acquiescing to the demand, whether or not there is a legal basis for it, out ... database of cease and desist letters DEFAULTSORT Legal Threat Category Legal documents Category Informal legal terms ... more details
Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people otherwise unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in providing access to justice by ensuring ... models for legal aid have emerged, including duty lawyers, community legal clinics and the payment of lawyers to deal with cases for individuals who are entitled to legal aid. History Legal aid has a close relationship with the welfare state and the provision of legal aid by a state is influenced by attitudes towards welfare. Legal aid is a welfare provision by the state to people who could otherwise not afford access to the legal system. Legal aid also helps to ensure that welfare provisions ... to legal advice and the courts. Historically legal aid has played a strong role in ensuring respect ... argue that legal aid is essential in providing individuals with access to justice, by allowing the individual legal enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights . His views developed in the second ... first Francis title The transformation of legal aid comparative and historical studies publisher Oxford University Press year 1999 pages 89 90 url http books.google.com books?id khG 4Dk96J4C&dq legal aid&source gbs navlinks s isbn 9780198265894 ref Prior to the mid 20th Century literature of legal ... was to be collective, through policies rather than individual legal action. Laws were enacted to support welfare provisions, though these were regarded as laws for planners, not lawyers. Legal aid schemes were established as it was assumed that the state had a responsible to assist those engaged in legal ... Regan first Francis title The transformation of legal aid comparative and historical studies publisher Oxford University Press year 1999 pages 90 url http books.google.com books?id khG 4Dk96J4C&dq legal ... their own goals. The welfare state in this time expanded along with legal aid provisions as concerns ... legal aid to advice those on low income when dealing with state officials. Legal aid was extended ... more details
A legal recourse is an action that can be taken by an individual or a corporation to attempt to remedy a legal difficulty. A lawsuit if the issue is a matter of Civil law common law civil law Many contracts require mediation or arbitration before a dispute can go to court Referral to police or prosecutor for investigation and possible criminal charges if the matter is a criminal law criminal violation Petition to a legislature or other law making body for a change in the law if a law is thought to be unjust. Petition to a president or governor or monarch other chief executive or other official with power to pardon. See also Legal remedy See also globalize date December 2010 Legal principles Habeas corpus Damnum absque injuria , loss without injury Arm s length principle Examples Arranged marriage s may leave the woman without legal recourse . Bookies and confidence trickster s rely on the wiktionary mark mark being involved in illegal activity to block legal recourse . Victims of bullying may have legal recourse in the United States. The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 purportedly Political positions of Joe Lieberman Consumer protection leaves consumer groups without legal recourse . Diploma mill s and essay mill s employ various legal techniques to leave their customers without legal recourse . In termination of employment , an employee may have legal recourse to challenge such a termination in at will presumption of employment in the United States . Victims of joke theft have little legal recourse , but have occasionally exacted joke theft Recourse and consequences their own vengeance . Lynching in the United States Lynchings Military tribunal Rumsfeld v. Padilla DEFAULTSORT Legal Recourse Category Legal terms ar de Regress Recht lt Atgr tinis reikalavimas no Regress zh ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 orphan date November 2009 Legal nullity is a phrase used to refer to any entity which might theoretically be of some legal significance, but in fact possesses no identity or distinct structure of its own. Examples of this are counties which are wholly subsumed by the municipal government within their boundaries. Some entities which fit this description are Philadelphia County , a legal nullity because it is entirely coterminous with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and New York County , which is similarly coterminous with the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City . Legal nullity is also a court decision made without jurisdiction or authority. Such a decision does not have to be vacated or appealed, it is void from inception. DEFAULTSORT Legal Nullity Category Legal terms Law term stub Geo term stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Legal coding is the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document. It is widely used in the legal profession to create a fast search index or database of documents for use in litigation . Objective coding Objective coding is creating an index of Objectivity philosophy objective summary data from a document, and if discoverable , would include such information as dates, author, recipient and title. Subjective coding Subjective coding is the indexing of documents around subjectivity subjective data. This may be gleaned from templates, or more usually from a subjective reading by someone familiar with the topic. This is the more realiable way to determine factors such as importance of the document. External links http www.integra india.com litigation services.htm http www.intercomindia.com legal coding objective coding.html http www.intercomindia.com legal coding subjective coding.html http www.cchworkflow.com.au processing services coding.html DEFAULTSORT Legal Coding Category Legal citation Category Document management systems ... more details
Infobox Occupation name Legal Executive official names Details type Profession activity sector Law competencies ... of Legal Executives , Legal Practice Course employment field Law firm , government, in house related occupation Solicitor , trainee solicitor , paralegal average salary Legal executives are trained legal professionals in England & Wales , Northern Ireland , the Republic of Ireland , New Zealand ..., no direct equivalent to a legal executive in Scotland . In Ontario , Canada there are Law Clerks which conduct a similar role, and in the USA the term Paralegal is used for a similar role to that of the legal executive. England & Wales ILEX The Institute of Legal Executives ILEX was founded ... and Wales . ILEX is a professional body which represents legal executives and trainee legal executives. Legal executives in England and Wales are fully qualified lawyers in a specialist area and undertake ... or barristers . ref Cite web url http www.ilex.org.uk about legal executives what legal executives do.aspx title What Legal Executives Do publisher ILEX accessdate 2009 09 10 ref Legal executives in England and Wales are fee earners, and are now eligible to become Partners in Legal Disciplinary ... in Alternative Business Structures ABS when they come into force. The work of Legal executives requires them to have the same high ethical standards as barristers and solicitors, and all Legal Executives are regulated by ILEX Professional Standards. Legal Executives attend to a wide range of legal ... litigation Legal executives undertake a series of training courses and are required to pass qualifications in Law in the area of legal practice that they intend to specialise. The final qualifications ... as a Legal Executive and Fellows are also qualified by the Crown by way of ILEX to be Commissioners ..., but not all courts. Appearance in higher courts requires a separate ILEX qualification to become a Legal Executive Advocate. Membership Levels In September 2009 the training to become a Legal Executive ... more details
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