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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7488

01 November 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Anna Bradley predicts a bright future for alternative business structures

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP is to open an office in Singapore with the hire of insurance and reinsurance partner Mark Errington from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).

Hill Dickinson has appointed Sean Williams as partner in the private client team...

Hogan Lovells has hired partner Patric McGonigal to its international litigation and arbitration practice in Tokyo.

James Harrison examines the impact of bankruptcy on marriage

Malcolm Dowden examines the impact of devolution on the UK’s waste law

Lucy Wyles dives headfirst into the latest personal injury developments

Practitioners should tread carefully around product liability claims, says Karen O’Sullivan

For CPR telephone hearings, approved providers are now Kidatu (0800 279 0405) and Arkadin (020 8600 0751).

Obsession Hair and Day Spa Ltd v Hi-Lite Electrical Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1148, [2011] All ER (D) 228 (Oct)

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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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