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‘This is a valuable addition to the bookshelf; not just for practitioners, but for those interested in —or simply curious about—the topics covered’

Sue Bent & Keith Wilding on how law centres can influence change in policy and law & tackle the causes of recurring problems

Should mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) be compulsory?

‘Admitting expert evidence very late in the day is a fraught business,’ writes Dr Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, in this week’s NLJ. He looks at the case of Shetty v Pennine Acute Hospitals as a case in point. There, the witness statement was ten months late

Never underestimate the importance of properly instructing expert witnesses, writes Mark Solon, founder, Bond Solon, in this week’s NLJ. He recounts a cautionary tale of high fashion, demanding celebrities and an expert witness who, as the judge put it, ‘did not fare well in the witness box’

The 2022 LexisNexis Legal Awards are now open for entries, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony at London’s Grosvenor Hotel in March

Exhausted lawyers regularly cause delays to business projects, suffer psychological distress and often seek to leave their firm, researchers have found

In an email to stakeholders, the Senior Master of the Queen’s Bench (QB) Division, Barbara Fontaine, has announced a QB Masters User Group meeting to be held on 29 November 2021 in Court 4

Weightmans welcomes first apprentice solicitors

Mark Pawlowski considers some of the problems associated with territorial claims to Antarctica

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University of Manchester: The LLM driving tech-focused career growth

Manchester’s online LLM has accelerated career progression for its graduates

mfg Solicitors—Philip Chapman

Regional firm strengthens corporate team with partner hire

Winckworth Sherwood—Sarbjeet Gill

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Oatly loses long-running ‘milk’ war with dairy farmers

Swedish company Oatly has lost its bid to trademark the term ‘post milk generation’, after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favour of the dairy industry trade association, Dairy UK

‘Seismic’ ruling makes AI patentable

It is possible to obtain a UK patent for an artificial intelligence (AI) machine which uses artificial neural networks (ANNs), the Supreme Court has held

General counsel role in flux, says report

The current state of geopolitics is so volatile it is ‘fundamentally reshaping’ the role of general counsel, according to a report by a global network of law firms

Perils of incorrect service highlighted

The High Court has clarified how winding-up petitions must be served, in a decision with implications for 30,000 UK businesses using the Companies House default address for official mail

Legal Services Board under the microscope

The ‘statutory remit’ of super-regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) is to come under scrutiny in a government review

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Profession

MOVERS & SHAKERS

University of Manchester: The LLM driving tech-focused career growth

mfg Solicitors—Philip Chapman

Winckworth Sherwood—Sarbjeet Gill