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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7516

31 May 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Mackrell Turner Garrett has appointed a new criminal lawyer.

DAC Beachcroft LLP and Canadian firm McCague Borlack have agreed to enter into a formal association with effect from this month.

Lord Woolf to co-chair “inquiry into inquiries” for CEDR

Employer’s & public liability portal “drop-outs”

Copyright protection for certain artistic works could be extended to 70 years plus the life of the creator, bringing UK law into line with that of other EU member states.

The Co-operative Legal Services (Co-op LS) is to recruit a further 3,000 people to its legal team, creating the largest consumer law business in the UK.

Gillie Christou and Maria Ward, social workers in the Baby P case, have lost their unfair dismissal appeal (Christou and Ward v London Borough of Haringey UKEAT/0298/11).

Barristers are branching out by setting up fixed-price consumer businesses.

The pace of legislative change has slackened, according to research by Sweet & Maxwell.

Ryanair Holdings plc v Office of Fair Trading and another [2012] EWCA Civ 643, [2012] All ER (D) 168 (May)

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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 dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
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
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