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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7561

24 May 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

The law in relation to secondary psychiatric injury is almost universally accepted to be a mess, says Keith Patten

Solicitors must take care when handling client accounts, warns Simon Love

When is a tenancy deposit not a tenancy deposit? Mathew McDermott reports on Johnson v Old

Peter Vaines ponders the intelligent businessman & pesky postal services

Wyatt v Vince [2013] EWCA Civ 495, [2013] All ER (D) 96 (May)

Joint Stock Company “Aeroflot Russian Airlines” v Berezovsky and others [2013] EWHC 1210 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 158 (May)

RC Brewery Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2013] EWHC 1184 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 130 (May)

Dhunna v Creditsights Ltd UKEAT/0246/12/LA, [2013] All ER (D) 133 (May)

R (on the application of Barclay and another) v Secretary of State for Justice and others [2013] EWHC 1183 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 123 (May)

Darbyshire v Turpin and another [2013] EWHC 954 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 161 (May)

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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 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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