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Blacks Solicitors invests in new legal talent

Internal promotions boost Real Estate & Construction practice

William Gibson on how an unsuccessful, widely-reported prosecution proved to be an unbeatable marketing tool

Roger Smith reports on politics on the edge

Michelle de Kluyver, Nichola Peters & Harriet Territt discuss whether the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Bill creates a new breed of corporate criminal liability in the UK

Could India match or even exceed Singapore’s rise in the arbitration space? Saurabh Bhagotra investigates

After more than two decades as a BBC News Anchor, Joanna Gosling explains her career change & why she wants mediation to be embedded in the collective thinking when conflict hits

Former JUSTICE director Roger Smith hunts out the serious points among the ‘tittle tattle’ of former prisons minister Rory Stewart’s heavily promoted book, in his NLJ column this week

This week, Michell de Kluyver, Nichola Peters & Harriet Territt, global investigations practice, Addleshaw Goddard, look at the potential introduction of ‘senior manager attribution liability’. As the authors explain, this is a ‘new breed’ of corporate criminal liability, and a definite ‘game changer’

Online court services are adding to delays and undermining access to justice, research by the Law Society has found

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Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

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Conveyancers celebrate U-turn over mortgage handbook fee

Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook

Are you suited to a career in prosecution?

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors

LSB marks Mazur homework

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)

NLJ this week: Stuck in the past?

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

NLJ this week: No automatic bar on ‘user damages’

A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law

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Profession

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison