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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7588

12 December 2013
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Chris Bryden & Michael Salter discuss some of the key developments of 2013 & share a few predictions...

11 December 2013 / Michael Salter / Chris Bryden
New year, new mediation rules

Mediation to take centre stage as the default ADR technique

11 December 2013
Calls clampdown

Third reading of Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill

11 December 2013
Training for tomorrow

SRA launches 12-week consultation into education & training regulation

11 December 2013
CILEx gets probate rights

Independent practice rights for CILEx fellows

11 December 2013
Lavender QC speaks out

Bar chair-elect calls for abolition of LSB

11 December 2013
Court orders child's return to Texas

Supreme Court ruled that it was in child's best interests to return to US

10 December 2013
Sunday discrimination clarifies faith claim

Religious belief need not be a “core component of the Christian faith” to establish claim

09 December 2013
First female majority in judicial selections

More women than men recommended for judicial posts

09 December 2013
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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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

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Conveyancers celebrate U-turn over mortgage handbook fee
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
Are you suited to a career in prosecution?
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
LSB marks Mazur homework
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)
NLJ this week: Stuck in the past?
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
NLJ this week: No automatic bar on ‘user damages’
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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