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08 May 2008 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7320 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil Way: 9 May 2008

Bloody Laws >> Bank charges here to stay >> Friendship the Mckenzie way >> Commercial debt interest ruling >> sex discriminators hit for six

LAWBITES
Blood money

A scientific test to establish parentage under a Family Law Reform Act 1969, s 20 direction has to be carried out by an accredited body. In other situations, an unaccredited body can do the job, but do steer clear of Jekyll, Hyde & Co or the court may be unimpressed.
Complement Genomics Ltd of Sunderland trading as Dadcheck (really) has just been added to the accredited list. And to celebrate the occasion, in came the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/972) on 25 April 2008. They hike the accredited tester’s fee from £27.50 to £37.90 per sample; scrap the dispensation for a subject under 12 months to have their photograph attached to the direction form relating to them before the sample is taken; and require each sample to be placed in not only a container that is suitable but waterproof to

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde Co strengthens energy transition and construction offering with hire of Suriya Ashok

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit appoints rare dual-qualified lawyer to expand Anglo-French private wealth expertise

NEWS
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
Arbitration may be private, but its confidentiality is no impenetrable shield. Writing in NLJ this week, James Glaysher of Kingsley Napley examines when courts will permit arbitral material to surface in open litigation
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

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