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27 October 2014
Categories: Features , E-disclosure , Procedure & practice , Costs , Budgeting
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Finding your way

Jeffrey T Shapiro & James Morrey-Jones examine how law firms should budget for e-discovery post-Jackson

Whether you agree or disagree with the changes ushered in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) or are straddled on the barbed wire fence between the two camps, we are nearly 18 months on from the biggest change in law reform since the Woolf reforms were enacted in 1999. We are not here to argue for one side or the other; the fact is we are on this rollercoaster together, and many of us do not know where it is going to take us. After the barrel rolls of the Mitchell judgment and the batwings of the fallout, we now find ourselves in seemingly calmer waters of Denton’s three-stage test. With these decisions we may have moved on in the world of case law, yet lurking in the water is the tick tock of the big, bad ad hoc world of budgeting

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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