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Year End

31 January 2008 / Brice Dickson
Issue: 7306 / Categories: Features , Legal services , Procedure & practice , Profession
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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.

The judicial arm of the House of Lords is still on course to be transmuted into the Supreme Court of the in October 2009. It will be interesting to see whether the working methods and adjudication standards of the top court will in any way change once it moves across

Parliament Square
and leaves the trappings of the behind. Meanwhile the law lords continue to ply their trade as an appellate committee. This article gives a snapshot of their output during 2007.

The lords of appeal issued 58 decisions ([2007] UKHL 1 to [2007] UKHL 58), two more than in 2006 but some way short of the record high of 74 in 2005. For present purposes a “decision” means a case with a single judgment or set of judgments, even though it may involve more than one appeal. In fact the 58

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

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 dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
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
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