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It’s all go in the world of civil litigation, writes Dominic Regan. But what happens when there’s no one at fault to foot the bill?

Professor Dominic Regan, aka NLJ’s The insider, has warm words for Sir Peter Fraser, the recently appointed Lord Justice

Jack Ridgway offers advice on every solicitor’s bugbear, the estimate of costs

Dominic Regan signs off the year covering a flurry of late developments without equal this century

The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffry Vos has published the guideline hourly rates (GHR) for next year, after accepting all the Civil Justice Council costs review recommendations

Tricia Hemans & Daniel Black take a trip down the IT

Prof Regan defends the MR, condemns the Solicitors Act 1974, & commends a legal triumvirate

Lawyers have welcomed a commitment to update the guideline hourly rates (GHR), review the costs provisions of the Solicitors Act 1974 and uprate the fixed recoverable costs cap

Laura Rees suggests it’s time Parliament reviewed the Solicitors Act 1974 to give consumers & solicitors better protection

Fixed costs, forced ADR, and animal exploitation jostle for space with legal superstars, good deeds, and a whiff of hope in this month’s update by Dominic Regan

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Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Paula Myers to private capital team in Leeds

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

Law firm mfg Solicitors announces five promotions at Birmingham office

Brabners—six promotions

Brabners adds six to partnership in record year for partner promotions

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42BR Barristers—4 Brick Court merger completed

Family set expands with the formal integration of 4 Brick Court into 42BR Barristers

Sting operation on solicitor backfires

The Court of Appeal has issued a stern warning to lawyers engaging in the practice of ‘privilege hunting’—obtaining an opponent’s legally privileged information through dishonest means

CILEX ‘disappointed’ by LSB report on Mazur

Legal executives have given a lukewarm reception to the Legal Services Board’s (LSB’s) final report from its regulatory review into Mazur advice and guidance

Ruling clarifies main housing duty

A homeless single parent offered accommodation in Derby has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the London council making the offer

No shield for spies, says Supreme Court

The Kingdom of Bahrain does not enjoy sovereign immunity from allegations it used surveillance software to spy on dissidents in the UK, the Supreme Court has held

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Costs

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

Brabners—six promotions