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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7289

20 September 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

Paul Hewitt, Paola Fudakowska and Stephen Richards report on recent cases

Is a coherent EU anti-money laundering approach to trusts within reach? ask Helen Darling and Katherine Hill

Nicholas Acomb explains how the Finance Act 2006 has fundamentally changed the inheritance tax status of trusts

Re P (a child) (adoption order: leave to oppose making of adoption order) [2007] EWCA Civ 616, [2007] All ER (D) 334 (Jun)

Re Times Newspapers Ltd and others [2007] EWCA Crim 1925, [2007] All ER (D) 473 (Jul)

In brief

R v Neuberg [2007] EWCA Crim 1994

Sticks and stones may break lawyers’ bones, but names
will never hurt them, says the Insider

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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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