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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7441

11 November 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Arbitrations offer the parties engaged in a dispute some choice in the selection of arbitrators

Jackson LJ’s proposal that a party should not be able to recover the cost of their After the Event (ATE) insurance premium has generated a lively debate. Like Marmite, either you love it or you hate it

Ian Smith holds on to his sanity...and revisits some old chestnuts

Jonathan Herring on the death knell of marriage

Rehana Azib reports on liability, protection & limitation

John Furber QC revisits authorised guarantee agreements

Ed Mitchell reports on council & court failures to deliver community care

Graham Reid provides a [crash] course in settlement drafting

Paul Hewitt, Paola Fudakowska & Adam Cloherty report on declining capacity, mutual wills & rectification

Siblings’ dispute father’s will: Michael Tringham reports

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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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