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Keith Patten reviews the implications of Dawkins upon liability in negligence & evidentiary burdens

Alison Padfield explains why legal clarity & coherence trumped fairness in Scullion

Karen O’Sullivan reviews the recent decision in MacIntyre

Can you rely on non-reliance clauses? Nathalie Burn investigates in light of recent court decisions

Tony Hill & Kate Thompson revisit the illegality defence

Scullion provides some lessons in law & life for the buy-to-let market, says Alison Padfield

All practitioners—claimant and defendant—should appreciate the new professional negligence trap set by Gibbon...

Julian Miller & Tom Pangbourne assess the dangers of tax avoidance schemes

Roger Harris assesses cases involving contributory negligence & diagnostic failure

Nick Bird reports on the Levicom outcome & lessons in causation

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

Firm strengthens global fund finance practice with London partner hire.

DWF—Stephen Webb

DWF—Stephen Webb

Partner and head of national planning team appointed

mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

Corporate team expands in Birmingham with partner hire

NEWS
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts

An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

Medical reporting organisation fees have become ‘the final battleground’ in modern costs litigation, says Kris Kilsby, costs lawyer at Peak Costs and council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, in this week's NLJ
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