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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7515

23 May 2012

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Roger Smith rounds up recent human rights developments

How can we protect victims of unfair commercial practices, ask David Hertzell & Amy Smith

European Directives strike again Spencer Keen & Monika Sobiecki investigate

Jonathan Herring examines the approach to the dissolution of gay marriage

Simon Love assesses the proposed new role for SRA Compensation Fund

Paul Denholm questions the application of LA 2011 to planning breaches

Hayley Tam puts into perspective the contaminated land regime amendments

Nine lives too many & a concurrence conundrum for George

Singla v Stockler and another [2012] EWHC 1176 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 100 (May)
Chancery Division, Briggs J, 10 May 2012

Humphreys v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2012] UKSC 18, [2012] All ER (D) 124 (May)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

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Conveyancers celebrate U-turn over mortgage handbook fee

Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook

Are you suited to a career in prosecution?

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors

LSB marks Mazur homework

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)

NLJ this week: Stuck in the past?

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

NLJ this week: No automatic bar on ‘user damages’

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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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7515

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison