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Jacqueline Laing challenges the Falconer report

Tim Spencer-Lane locks down the flaws of the DOLS

Jonathan Herring tackles paternity testing & capacity

Andrew Parsons deliberates over the court’s approach to the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment

The case of Steven Neary demonstrates that public bodies must know their place, says Tim Spencer-Lane

Graham Sievers analyses parental alcohol use, from abstinence through to chronic abuse

Ed Mitchell uncovers some serious flaws in the care of vulnerable adults

Contraception, mental capacity & state intervention. Jonathan Herring reports

Annette Cafferkey provides an update on public law defences & discrimination

Dr David Hewitt will be a name familiar to most NLJ readers, especially mental health lawyers.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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