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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7497

17 January 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Avocet Industrial Estates LLP v Merol Ltd and another company [2011] EWHC 3422 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 20 (Jan)

Paratus AMC Ltd and another company v Countrywide Surveyors Ltd [2011] EWHC 3307 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 32 (Jan)

Omnipharm Ltd v Merial [2011] EWHC 3393 (Pat), [2012] All ER (D) 21 (Jan)

Javed v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2012] All ER (D) 37 (Jan)

Robert Brown provides a lesson on multi-lingual e-Discovery

Jane Ching & Natalie Byrom grapple with the present & future demands of legal services education

Peter Nussey explains how to help bridge the gap between training & work

Jonathan Fisher QC & Kate Balmer tackle mediation in larger scale tax cases

Peter Whitman highlights the attractions of mediation over contested dispute

Geoffrey Bindman reflects on the report of his old office junior

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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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