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You may not have encountered the weight test for works of civil practice and procedure. It involves the carrier throwing at you the constituent parts contained in a cardboard box and seeing whether you fall over.

Geoffrey Bindman is reminded of the fine balance between judicial independence & democracy

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

Jennifer James considers the Cameron-Clegg alliance in the light of other famous double acts

Dominic Regan suggests how to avoid some common pitfalls

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

The elegant words of Maitland 100 years ago describing trusts as an institute of great elasticity and generality and as the most distinctive achievement of English lawyers, can no longer be taken to be the whole story.

This week’s Insider column was going to be an Up Pompeii spoof, with Lurcio the slave up to various high jinks in the house of Bruno Maximus (thereby getting in a few digs at our beloved, or at least beleaguered, leader).

Dominic Regan delves into a selection of gems from the English Law Reports

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—Michael Conway

Birketts—Michael Conway

IP partner joins team in Bristol to lead branding and trade marks practice

Blake Morgan—Daniel Church

Blake Morgan—Daniel Church

Succession and tax team welcomes partner inLondon

Maguire Family Law—Jennifer Hudec

Maguire Family Law—Jennifer Hudec

Firm appoints senior associate to lead Manchester city centre team

NEWS
Ministers’ proposals to raise funds by seizing interest on lawyers’ client account schemes could ‘cause firms to close’, solicitors have warned
Pension sharing orders (PSOs) have quietly reached their 25th anniversary, yet remain stubbornly underused. Writing in NLJ this week, Joanna Newton of Stowe Family Law argues that this neglect risks long-term financial harm, particularly for women
A school ski trip, a confiscated phone and an unauthorised hotel-room entry culminated in a pupil’s permanent exclusion. In this week's issue of NLJ, Nicholas Dobson charts how the Court of Appeal upheld the decision despite acknowledged procedural flaws
Is a suspect’s state of mind a ‘fact’ capable of triggering adverse inferences? Writing in NLJ this week, Andrew Smith of Corker Binning examines how R v Leslie reshapes the debate
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
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