As Mental Health Awareness Week approaches, David Locke urges us all to recognise the little signs in those we know well & in ourselves that suggest all is not right
The argument about legal costs in clinical negligence & personal injury litigation shows no sign of abating, says David Locke
David Locke reflects on the impact of the inadequate reporting of Paul Gascoigne’s recent court case
Far from a flash in the pan, support for mediation in health sector disputes is on the rise, reports David Locke
Claire Christopholus & David Locke provide an update on the assessment of hindsight in informed consent cases
David Locke reflects on the ramifications of the recent public intervention of Lord Hain in breaching an injunction
David Locke & Carmel Shachar consider the impact of globalised medicine on withdrawal of treatment decisions in the UK
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin
Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner
mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford
Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team
Freeths—David Smith
Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith
NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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