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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7392

05 November 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Part two: agreements to negotiate, are they enforceable? ask Antonio Bueno QC & Deborah Tompkinson

Councils into forced marriages; unfair shock; and credit reference peril

Timothy Dutton QC considers the impact of the Legal Services Act on the independent Bar

What options do you have when your opponent fabricates evidence? Stuart Paterson & Gareth Keillor

Re Sigma Finance Corporation [2009] UKSC 2

Authors: Spencer Keen & Richard Oulton

R (on the application of L) v Metropolitan Police Commissioner (secretary of state for the Home Department and another intervening) [2009] UKSC 3

Potential for up to two years in prison if government plans receive go ahead

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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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