West London Law Society Electronic Newsletter October 2006 Edition

1)  Meetings.

2) Events for 2006-2007.

3) Council Member's Reports.

4) Committee Meetings.

5) West London Law Society Young Solicitors.

1) October and November Meetings

The October meeting is on 24th at the Raf Club and the subject will be Professional Client Care . A flyer for this meeting can be downloaded from

http://www.westlondonls.org.uk/page33.html

November Meeting

 

This will be on 21st November at the RAF It will be a Civil Procedure Update given by the ever popular if slightly controversial District Judge  Steven Gerlis. It will be a lively evening so you have been warned

 

A flyer for this meeting will be put up at the website at

http://www.westlondonls.org.uk/page40.html

 

2) Events for 2006-2007

 

Your  President Michael Nathan has worked very hard and produced a full programme for the next year which is up on the website at www.westlondonls.org.uk/page3.html.

 

The popular Jazz evening has been moved to 5th December 2006 at the offices of  FSI.

 

The principal speaker at the Annual Dinner on 6th February 2007 is Shami Chakrabati director of Liberty. She is a superb speaker and this will be a good evening so please put this date in your diaries.

 

3) September and October Council Meetings

 

It is just like awaiting for a  bus . There are no Council Meeting for several months and then we have two in two weeks. The September considered the size of Council. It was decided that whilst a smaller Council was desirable the Law Society had such major  task on its  plate such as Clementi and the carter review it was not the time to decide  which Council seats should go.

 

The October Meeting concentrated on the Major issues of the day such as the Law Society’s response to the Carter Review and the legal services Bill. In both cases it was decided that as the Law Society was now a representative body we should challenge the Government on the Carter Review even that that might generate a more hostile response from the Government on the Legal services bill.

I prepared fuller Council member’s report on the these Council meetings and they are up at is up on the website at http://www.westlondonls.org.uk/page34.html   and

http://www.westlondonls.org.uk/page35.html

 

 

 

4) Committee Meetings

 

The next committee meeting is on  16th October 2006 at the offices of FSI .All members of the society are welcome to attend provided they telephone Michael Nathan or his secretary in advance so that he has some idea of the numbers attending.

 

 

 

 

5)West London Law Society Young Solicitors

 

The West London Young Solicitors Group has been formed. . There is now a page on the West London Law Society web site at www.westlondonlaw.co.uk/page19.html so watch this space!