header-logo header-logo

THIS ISSUE
Card image

Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7587

06 December 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

R (on the application of the Enfield London Borough Council) v Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group and others [2013] EWHC 3496 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 279 (Nov)

Hall and another v Bull and another [2013] UKSC 73, [2013] All ER (D) 307 (Nov)

Obi v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2013] EWHC 3578 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 271 (Nov)

Mark Solon shares the findings of this year’s Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Survey

Ross Risby highlights the value of selecting the best experts in professional negligence litigation

Justin Michaelson updates the need-to-know guide to ADR…a decade on

Jeremy Ford reports on the seminal decision in Mitchell v News Group Newspapers

Mitchell decision could lead to increase in satellite litigation

Partners “worryingly” unaware of consequences of insolvency

Show
10
Results
Results
10
Results

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
back-to-top-scroll