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City law firms are preparing to raise millions of pounds from external investors as the British legal market braces for its own version of Big Bang.

At least 20 firms are planning to raise outside funding under rules that will allow non-lawyers to own a stake in legal practices for the first time, accountants advising the firms told The Times.

 On Saturday afternoon 6 March, the GPC candidates group had an extremely passionate debate on the marijuana issue.  It started with a response to a group post in which I advanced the idea that legalization may not be a good idea.  What erupted was an avalanche of emails, around 200 emails, mostly against, but a few supportive of my views. This lasted pretty well until about when the OSCARS began on Sunday night TV and into Monday.   Someone suggested that the candidates group was not the proper forum for this, and that GPC members were excluded.  Now I can only speak for myself, so below are some of my responses to emails that were directed at me, with some minor grammatical corrections.  The file is just too big to include any emails, but my own.  You have to use your imagination a bit.   Other candidates involved may wish to provide the assertions they made and their views in their blogs.  A great thing this democracy stuff,

PMO OLO harpoons Liberal Conservative divisions on seal hunt climate change

The Prime Minister’s Opposition Leader’s Office is accusing Michael Ignatieff Stephen Harper of playing politics with the seal hunt environment and the lives of those who depend on it after a Liberal Senator former Conservative minister reintroduced his bill to ban the hunt dismissed concern over global warming as alarmism.

In an internal memo to Conservative...