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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7447

06 January 2011
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The Bar Council and Criminal Bar Association have called for referral fees to be abolished.

The civil legal aid cuts will have potentially dangerous consequences

The High Court has seen disputes over the sale of businesses multiply five-fold in one year

Ireland must reconsider its laws and policies on abortion after a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Individual lawyers could face fines of up to £50m under new proposals from the Legal Services Board (LSB).

The Ministry of Justice is to continue to champion virtual courts despite evidence published last month which showed that they cost more in the longer term than traditional ones.

Working class accents not welcome at top law firms

Net return price agreements scrutinised in ruling

As students take to the streets to protest rising levels of debt, law schools stand accused of treating their students as a revenue stream churning out young lawyers for jobs that don’t exist...

In recent years, there have been repeated calls for reform of corporate defamation law by those who are concerned about its “chilling effect” on freedom of speech

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Private client division announces five new partners

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Banking and finance team welcomes partner in London

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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