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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7625

09 October 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Ruth Daniel discusses how to provide access to justice for those most in need

Tim Spencer-Lane provides an overview of the Law Commission’s review of the deprivation of liberty safeguards

Should employees be paid to sleep? Tom Walker reports

David Burrows reviews the complexities & challenges of law making

Helen Sculthorpe explains how the Upper Tribunal has put relativity & professional valuation in the spotlight

Global Draw Ltd v IGT-UK Group Ltd and another [2014] EWHC 2973 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 86 (Sep)

Eurokey Recycling Ltd v Giles Insurance Brokers [2014] EWHC 2989 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 92 (Sep)

Brand and another v Berki [2014] EWHC 2979 (QB), [2014] All ER (D) 99 (Sep)

Holger Forstmann Transporte GmbH & Co KG v Hauptzollamt Munster C-152/13 , [2014] All ER (D) 115 (Sep)

Technische Universitat Darmstadt v Eugen Ulmer KG C-117/13, [2014] All ER (D) 91 (Sep)

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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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