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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7520

28 June 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Resource partner Paul Airley has joined Fladgate LLP from McCarthy Tétrault

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, is to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Leeds University

Hill Dickinson has promoted two partners to salaried members and four partners to legal directors

Nottingham-based law firm Rothera Dowson have appointed Paul Brill to the employment law department

Park Court Chambers and New Court Chambers, specialist criminal, commercial and civil sets, merged on 18 June

Dominic Regan on Fairclough Homes, dishonest claims & the Supreme Court

Dr Jayne Allam & Sam Westmacott explore why the Ireland report failed to deliver

Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions

Crime doesn’t pay out compensation, notes Anna Hughes

Malcolm Dowden considers the liability of a parent company

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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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