Brice Dickson
Professor Emeritus
Brice Dickson is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Belfast.
Professor Emeritus
Brice Dickson is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Belfast.
The UK Supreme Court has just completed its first calendar year, a period during which it consolidated its position as the country’s most authoritative source of judge-made law
Brice Dickson runs through the UK’s top court in 2009
Brice Dickson reviews the performance of the law lords in 2008
The judicial arm of the House of Lords is still on course to be transmuted into the Supreme Court of the UK in October 2009.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Freeths—Ruth Clare
National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester
Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon
Partner appointed head of family team
mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison
Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return
NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
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