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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7476

27 July 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Hill Dickinson LLP has hired Anthony Bailey as a legal director...

Clintons has promoted three senior assistants to its partnership.

Manches has announced that Siobhan Jones and Amanda Nelson, both senior associates, have been promoted to its partnership.

Kingsley Napley LLP has recruited William Healing as partner in the family team.

Sales of counterfeit L'Oréal goods infringes trademark says ECJ

News International investigators must disclose “exact remit”

Four Kenyans who claim they were tortured by the British Colonial authorities more than 50 years ago have been given permission to sue the Foreign Office

The licensing of alternative business structures (ABS) for lawyers, which had been due to take place on 6 October, has been delayed

The financially dependent Somalian mother of a British citizen does not have an Art 8 right to join her daughter in the UK, the Court of Appeal has held

Legal history was made last week with the conclusion of Britain’s largest ever divorce settlement, between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and his ex-wife, Galina Besharova

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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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