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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7572

09 August 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

Teal Assurance Co Ltd v WR Berkley Insurance (Europe) Ltd and another company [2013] UKSC 57, [2013] All ER (D) 387 (Jul)
 

The courts have performed some important employment work recently, notes Ian Smith

 Jonathan Herring explains how divorce settlements can be unequal but fair

Who bears the risk for a working prisoner’s negligence? Robert O’Leary reports

Jag-Preet Kaur & Henrietta Mason provide a wills & probate update

Michael Tringham recalls tales of heir-hunting

Andrew Otchie reflects on the approach to granting an anti-anti suit injunction

McCaughey and others v United Kingdom (App no 43098/09) [2013] ECHR 43098/09, [2013] All ER (D) 260 (Jul)

Tchenguiz and another v Director of the Serious Fraud Office and others and other cases [2013] EWHC 2297 (QB), [2013] All ER (D) 357 (Jul)

Jones v Governing Body of Story Wood School and Children’s Centre UKEAT/0522/12/JOJ, [2013] All ER (D) 334 (Jul)

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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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