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Issue: Vol 169, Issue 7835

05 April 2019
IN THIS ISSUE

Ian Smith, our resident employment guru, proves that two’s company, three or more’s a crowd...

Summing up his series on the unfairness of escalating ground rent, Rawdon Crozier proposes a way out of the dungeon

In the wake of the home secretary’s approval of revised rules on conferring by police officers in writing up their post-event accounts, David Wolchover & Anthony Heaton-Armstrong conclude their series on the issues at the heart of the debate

Missing persons; letting agents targeted; more bingo & forfeiture traps 

Tim Smith provides a read & store guide to Making Tax Digital

Athelstane Aamodt explains why gun control advocates have got their work cut out

Dominic Regan reports on the next steps for Sir Rupert Jackson’s fixed costs finale

Committee calls for abolition of short sentences & criticises government’s ‘crisis management’ approach
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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