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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7435

29 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Spencer Keen provides an overview of the most significant provisions of the Equality Act 2010

HBJ Gateley Wareing welcomes Alan Shanks’s return to the UK

Hart Brown has appointed James Lamont as its latest partner.

Mogers Solicitors LLP is extending its business to provide legal services for expat clients.

Wedlake Bell LLP has recruited Edward Craft as partner, applying expertise in both the corporate and low carbon arenas.

The UK Register of Mediators (UKRM) welcomes mediator and chartered arbitrator, Michael Cover

The Indie had a go. Now it is the time of The Guardian. The temptation to knock The Times off its perch as the “must have” newspaper for any self-respecting lawyer is overwhelming.

Three major fault lines exposed in current system

The lord chief justice is to take over leadership of the tribunal’s judiciary.

Leases have moved on. It’s the market that needs to catch up, says Keeley Ellaway

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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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